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A res­i­dent of Chase Vil­lage, Cara­pichaima, has suc­ceed­ed in his law­suit against the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) for al­low­ing a con­crete batch­ing plant to op­er­ate in his com­mu­ni­ty with­out a Cer­tifi­cate of En­vi­ron­men­tal Clear­ance (CEC).

De­liv­er­ing a judg­ment on Mon­day, High Court Judge Na­dia Kan­ga­loo up­held Ever­ton Phillip’s case against the au­thor­i­ty and Cen­tral Con­crete and Pumps Ltd.

While Jus­tice Kan­ga­loo or­dered the com­pa­ny to cease its op­er­a­tions and ap­ply for a CEC un­der the pro­vi­sions of the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Act, she grant­ed a stay un­til Jan­u­ary 26, next year, to give it and the au­thor­i­ty time to con­sid­er an ap­peal chal­leng­ing her find­ings.