NO! to open pit mining toxic
The City of La Paz considered inadmissible the Study of Environmental Impact San Antonio Mining Company The Pitalla. / The Sudcaliforniano
The Sudcaliforniano
February 25, 2012
Miguel Rubio La Paz, Baja California Sur. - In the series of discussions, debates and controversies that have arisen in various economic fields, environmentalists, academics and even politicians, the Honorable Council of La Paz in full yesterday rejected the installation of the extensive mining and toxic promoted by the company Minera La Pitalla, SA de CV, after stating that his position on this issue is in favor of sustainable development and provide that no feasibility or viability found to give a yes to authorize the use of soil. In that sense, the Cabildo of La Paz, explained that it is imminent involvement and damage, on the assumption that lead-installed, both for the survival of endemic flora and fauna, and the severe consequences that would occur for agricultural economic activities and tourism in the region safe for contamination of ground and air transportation by natural and human waste. Also, members of H. Council headed by the municipal president of La Paz, Esthela Ponce Beltran, said that this would weaken the reserve of water for daily use for agriculture and livestock for change of use of water to the mining industry, increasing the unhealthiness of underground groundwater by filtering pollutants in runoff and streams that naturally arise from the coastal areas of the Gulf of California and the Pacific Ocean. and would worsen the damage by the natural drag and transfer of toxic heavy metals such as cyanide and arsenic, which would mean serious risks to human health, affected by itself in the ancestral area and irrational mining which took place just over a century and a half and whose effects are still suffering in this important region of our town . In this context, they noted that the City of La Paz is fully empowered by the Constitution of the country, the State of Baja California Sur, the General Law of Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection, the Regulations of the Municipal Public Administration and Regulation of Environmental Protection of the Municipality of La Paz to mainly regulate, organize, monitor and guide all aspects of the environment within its territorial jurisdiction and of course for urban development plan and carry out all appropriate measures to ensure the use of land in accordance with approved plans and programs. Given that formally, the City of La Paz he was asked his opinion about the environmental impact of mining project called San Antonio, promoted by the company's Pitalla request was made by federal authorities, specifically the Directorate General of Environmental Impact and Risk, under the Secretary for Environmental Protection Management (both of the SEMARANAT), to which recently was given the answer by the municipal administrative bodies so authorized, according to law, and without prejudice to the powers as municipal government or we the undersigned to rule on the matter. For the foregoing reasons, and founded, our position on this issue is not the extensive mining and toxic, the Town Council concludes La Paz.
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