"There's no way Pascua-Lama can operate under this law because it's clearly occupying a peri-glacial area, in the presence of glaciers," said Gonzalo Strano, who leads Greenpeace-Argentina's glaciers campaign.
Peri-glacial areas are generally covered by permafrost, forming a protective rim around glaciers, and are full of fresh water. Strano said Pascua-Lama's toxic pollution would be left in a containment pond covering nearly a thousand acres (400 hectares) on the Argentine side of the border, and that to produce all that gold and silver, the mine would need 82 gallons (311 liters) of clean water per second for the next 25 years.
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