{"id":351319,"date":"2017-09-07T07:33:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T07:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=351319"},"modified":"2017-11-10T12:04:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T12:04:17","slug":"uw-licensed-company-stopped-from-cutting-rosewood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/09\/uw-licensed-company-stopped-from-cutting-rosewood\/","title":{"rendered":"U\/W: Licensed company stopped from cutting rosewood"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Upper West Regional Coordinating Council is picking the well-being of the environment over business interests, as it has refused to allow a lumbering firm with a legal permit, to cut rosewood in its domain.<\/p>\n
The Forestry Commission in a July 2017 letter, approved a permit for the lumbering firm, AttaKey Limited, to allow it to salvage 5,000 cubic metres of rosewood from the Upper West and three other regions.<\/p>\n
But in an August 30, 2017 response to the Forestry Commission, sighted by Citi News<\/strong>, the Upper West Coordinating Council said it will not comply with the directive to \u201cprotect the fragile and fast depleting environment of the region.\u201d<\/p>\n “…I am therefore to inform you that the directives per your letter cannot be implemented in this region for the best interest of the state,\u201d the letter signed by the acting Regional Coordinating Director, A.K Boahene, said.<\/p>\n