Councilor, mining office divided on Galuh Cempaka?s UKL-UPL

The chairman of the commission D of the legislative council of the Banjarbaru regency in South Kalimantan, Mahyuddin, has said that mining company PT Galuh Cempaka should make a new industrial impact management and monitoring plant or UKL-UPL to ensure that its operation would not pose problem to the local environment, Banjarmasin Post reported on Friday.

He said that the local mining office should ask the mining company to build new UKL-UPL because the existing UKL and UPL which were made by previous investors were no longer valid.

But the head of the local mining office, Djoko Hardiono, said that it was not necessary for the company to build new UKL-UPL because the mining area was still managed by the same company although there was a change in its ownership.

The company was jointly owned by state owned general mining company PT Aneka Tambang and an Australian company. However, the Australian company later sold its ownership to a Canadian firm. The company has started its mining operation in the area for about a year. (*)