INDUSTRIAL MINING AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION / Ivan Herrera
Thursday, 28 2008
 

  In Venezuela mining activity has been carried mostly by the private sector, and the big problem by the Venezuelan State has been the lack of control and monitoring of mining development. But if we are going to talk about the environmental depredation must be put in the same bag to tiny and large, whether as call and the only difference is that some prey with corresponding rights, covered mostly by the figure of the grant or contract miner. But anyone who does not enjoy that privilege described as "garimpeiro", which has been paying for the broken dishes destruction of our forest and Venezuelan regodean with sarcasms showing images as large remnants of a shattered crockery. Faced with this environmental depredation, appear linked all sectors governing this activity and with great responsibility; mines, environment and child care environment, which together with the main actors unemployed miners thirsty for work spaces, we have to make a decision at this time crucial.

  Firstly, the Venezuelan State will have to define what kind of mining and we want to go on this basis laying the groundwork for the development of this activity. In relation to this, there is the belief that the mining know the impact is minimal in relation to the alluvial. But everything depends on the technology that is implemented. Moreover, for the development of this activity, it can not be established by law artisanal mining and small-scale mining and not aperturen spaces for this purpose.

  In any case, there will come a time when there must be a plan of the corporate sector, which seeks to raise the standard of living in the "small miner", ie that in a relatively long transition period, this sector should become a stadium higher (as an employee) to the development of this activity, but making joins better technology, abandoning traditional methods, always looking for the least environmental impact, but with the decisive support of the government to give the necessary tools, and above all looking for an efficient mechanism for direct funding for this activity and exclusive.

  But not invent, without consulting the mining and imposing it out of this activity is to become sower cassava, tourism promoter, busco fisherman, or dragadores river. This is the biggest lie we got Jacqueline Faría (former Minister of the Environment) said when handing resources to some gentlemen who were not even miners, who were already coming to dredge the river Caribbean in Portuguesa state and the south of lake Maracaibo with an investment of 13 million 800 thousand and 15 billion bolivars for the pipe Manamo of Tucupita, Delta Amacuro state, which the Public Prosecutor's Office should open an investigation to see where those resources were spent, because nothing worked . In any case, to refer to the above, a miner can never become something other than mining, particularly when carried inside the "spirit of Canaima.

  And now for statements by Rodolfo Sanz (Mibam minister and president of CVG), to the regional media published on February 23, recognizes that the "convert mining" is a flawed policy.

  Technical and is scientifically proven that all the elements can cohabit with the existing natural effects of industry and the hand of man. You. May proceed with mining anywhere with a fragile ecosystem, and to do so only requires the management plan appropriate and implemented without restrictions. Looking for the best technologies in the most developed countries and adapt it to our reality. But always incorporating the "small miner" a industrial system that produces the lowest possible damage to our environment, and therefore we have made over time to minimize the harmful effects that has been practised for years, but we can not accept a solution that atropellando and violating the human rights of miners, harassment and humiliation on the part of those who have usurped the functions of nurseries environmental "(TO5 officials), we have already achieved a solution to the problem.