UNEG performs VI Conference on Research
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Mining, basic industries, sustainable development were the themes addressed by invited speakers.

Natalie Garcia
Photo William Urdaneta



This year there was great participation in the forums, mining was filled Experimental University of Guayana (UNEG), on Wednesday, started the VI Conference on Research carried out in graduate classrooms Chilemex headquarters.

The activity had a large participation and wore most forums attended. The mining in the Caura River, led by anthropologist Sergio Milano, generated controversy among the Indians, miners, military staff, researchers and Environment Ministry officials who were present.

In itself the subject has many angles. On one side is the need for environmental preservation and the other the social drama and culture that focuses on illegal mining, an activity conferring ecological havoc.

Thus emerged the diatribe on whether or not to exploit these gold zones and questions as who is responsible for the disorder and its spread to mining in protected areas?

Some of the answers to this question pointed to the Venezuelan State, which should implement the laws that exist in the matter and punish those violate the law.

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Among those attending this meeting was Lenys Maria Matos, director of environmental quality unit of the Ministry of Environment.

Matos said he was invited by Dario Bermudez retired teacher, who belongs to the presidential commission on Chemical Safety, responsible for technical advice for the use of pesticides, pesticides and others.

Their participation was related to mining and the use of mercury for gold recovery. "We came through the experiences of miners worldwide are evaluating the possibility of establishing a legally binding document for the management of mercury and that's very important to us."

In addition to the forum on mineral extraction was carried out by another that was entitled "Industrial design low Guiana sustainable management approach", whose speakers were Lairet Alfredo Rivas, a former president of Sidor and former president of the Aluminum Corporation Damian Prat, a columnist for this newspaper, and Luis Guzman, environmental specialist with extensive experience in the industrial area, a member of the Centre for Research in Environmental Management and Sustainable Development of the UNEG.

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