There is a story in the Miami Herald with the headline, “Tribunal is on Coastal Crusade in Costa Rica.
The Environmental Tribunal is the country’s highest environmental court, and it is an autonomous institution on the Environment Ministry. They have just completed a four month study of Costa Rica’s Pacific frontier, ordering the investigation of thousands of building lots, hotels, ocean front homes and condominiums.
Jose Lino Chaves is the leader of the Tribunal, and he stated, “We recognize that many businesses in the country are doing things well and that they have earned prizes and ecological flags. This is not the sector that worries us, but those projects that are causing damage to the environment.” 
According to Leland Baxter Neal, an environmentally conscious writer for the Tico Times , “The boom of tourism along the Pacific coast, particularly the northern Pacific, has been totally unregulated and uncontrolled and unplanned.” [...]
July 28, 2008
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