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Environmental authorities close three hotels in the Caribbean of Costa Rica |
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Courtesy of InsideCostaRica.com
The Ministerio de Ambiente y Energia MINAE (Costa Rican environmental authority) say they have closed three hotels in the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica for causing environmental damage.
 One of the hotels closed was recently built, constructed on the wetlands of Playa Negra, 185 kilometers southeast of San José. The extensions of two other existing hotels were also closed. The MINAE action came on Thursday April 10 (2008) and releasing information to the press on Friday April 11, saying that irregularities were detected. In the case of the newly constructed hotel, the MINAE said it was the construction of a three kilometer road across a land-sea zone, that according to law, must remain in its natural state.
As to the other two hotels, construction on the expansion was halted after MINAE officials found a large number of trees cut down for use in the construction. The MINAE press release implicated the Hotel Almendros y Corales which has a "four" leaf out of five-leaf certification for sustainable tourism (CST).
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