Today's El Nacional Story
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May 27, 2008 09:20AM
Civil servants of the ministries of the Atmosphere and Basic Industries and Mining they installed work tables to determine the geographical coordinateses of zones in which the Government will allow the open-cast operation of minerals like coal, gold and diamonds in the state Bolivar, in order that activity does not cause irreversible an environmental impact. In the next days the spaces qualified will inform with details for mineral extraction, said a source of the office of the Atmosphere. It does not know if the information will occur in an act witnessed by notary public or through an official decree, but it anticipates that " he will be pronto". What yes they know clearly Mibam and the Ministry of agriculture is that it will not be allowed no activity of operation in the 3.5 million hectares that Co nstituyen the Forest Reserve Imataca, in the state Bolivar. Concessions. In the decade of the Eighties, 1.4 million hectares of the guayanesa forest were granted to 12 projects of wood operation, and in 1997 the government of Rafael Cald was authorized the gold extraction of the deposits of the vegetal lung. The minister of the Atmosphere, Yubir? Grouse, informed two weeks ago that the Executive will not grant more licenses to explode mineral open-cast, to the being consulted on the situation of Crystallex after which the Government denied the permission to him that hoped for two years to operate the auriferous deposit the Cristinas, in Sifontes, state Bolivar. Nevertheless, two days after its declarations a source of its office, that asked not to be identified, assured that the measurement " he would not be radical" , but the intention was that the activity was developed without affecting the ecosystem. A month ago the Government began an exhaustive revision of all the mining concessions that is authorized Republic and of the projects that they try to initiate the operation of min erales in the country.