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leave Mina Martha And now? Santa Cruz Environmental Manifesto

Monday June 28, 2010 15:17

the company to drop the Martha Mine Field in the vicinity of Governor Gregores (Santa Cruz) must perform the work environmental remediation. In October 2009 the Citizens' Environmental Assembly of Rio Gallegos (AAC) and Self-Organized Neighbors of Gobernador. Gregores, visited the mine and reported that "the company does not certify any rules in terms of quality, environment or safety."

For Citizens' Environmental Assembly
26/06/2010 Rio Gallegos. With the completion of the task in the Martha mine field, subtract the company undertakes all remediation work and environmental remediation. Likewise, the Environmental Impact Study presented by the company at the beginning of the enterprise must also be a comparative tool to spot the impact that the work of a few miles from Coeur Gregores.

The company abandoned the site after more than five years of continuous production in the extraction of gold and silver, with perks and more than 120 active workers that slowly leaving the site must be and industrial sources. But the job does not end here which by law must carry the company.

environmental liabilities should be reviewed, remediated and healthy. The State Comptroller should be the company you do about it, and be revised Environmental Impact Study presented by the company and approved the state to habilitársele exploitation in the area to verify the provisions of the same and what remains in environmental issues in that area.

hydrogeological studies necessary to verify the contamination of ground water, according to Eduardo D'Elia of the (AAC) "are not performed after the first environmental impact study for eight years. "While the AAC from the consultants to the University of La Plata, more precisely, the director of the Master Environmental Assessment Hydrogeological Systems, who reported that" these studies should be performed once a year at least to determine water quality in the region of exploitation. "However, the state never asked another study in these 8 years of mining at the site.

Company announced the end of mining, an activity which was never effectively controlled by the state, and this was demonstrated in visit by the environmentalists in October 2009. SEE REPORT

Our big concern is that now the same thing happen in a short time when Coeur is no more to complain, the State itself, or what is the same as citizens, take responsibility for the remediation and pay health care costs.

We have expressed to the Board of Fomicruz SE that these absences of state control in mining, make the province must immediately stop granting mining areas pending the necessary controls to ensure ensure the reversibility of the impacts caused.