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Small miners reported failure of Caura Plan
Thursday, October 21, 2010 23:24 | | |
Representatives of small-scale mining sector reported the failure that has been the implementation of the Plan Caura, following the eviction of some 15 000 workers who exercised the activity in various areas of southern Bolivar State
Yuly Carreño
Representatives of small-scale mining sector reported the failure that has been the implementation of the Plan Caura, following the eviction of some 15 000 workers who exercised the activity in various areas of southern Bolivar State.
The complaint unveiled at an event organized by various national government agencies including the Ministry of Basic Industry and Mining (Mibam) and Social Development Bank (Bandes) to promote the strengthening program activity mining, which seeks a change of vocation of this economic sector through the financing of various socio-productive.
On behalf of the cooperative artisan miners, Nelly Matute said these programs are inaccessible to small miners because they have no resources after being evicted from their workspaces, "which guarantees the state can ask a person who was evicted and the leave government itself contributed to the ruin. "
Matute is convinced that through this plan will have violated the rights of miners "in every way." "To us it brought us out of the mines, we burned our teams, we were not in any basin, it is false that drove the miners to avoid predation of the Caroni River watershed," said highlighting the case of miners Piar .
He stressed that representatives of the national government "should come clean with the miners, because many of them are starving because of the state (...), implementation of the Plan Caura was a bad policy because it must be applied first before applying an alternative not leave and then see how we were going to relocate, "he said.
Matute reported that after the evacuation areas, from the line of La Paragua to Piar, areas have been occupied by different nationalized foreign companies to the detriment of their quality of life.
Before the eviction about 15 000 miners remained in parts of southern Bolivar state, thanks to temporary permits movement of equipment and fuel that were awarded by the Mibam.
"We bring to us in our workplaces that we are now legal for the military to the miners themselves (...) The Plan did not comply with these permits Caura destroyed and evicted and keeps us is apathy that has engulfed the mining sector the state. "
"Do not think they will eradicate mining because it is an ancestral activity and that is something that nobody is going to change, we call on the Minister of Mines and the President to target the microscope in these ministries where many officials are not solving the problem of small-scale mining. "
Decree
Luis Almeda, spokesman for the Bolivarian Front of Bolivar State mining cooperatives based in El Manteca, where there are about 26 mining cooperatives, said that in this county was encouraged an exploration plan three years ago and has not yet determined the quantification of reserves .
"For us to access funding must be redirected small mining policy towards true social inclusion policy of small producers and mining communities, we find it impossible to access this proposal."
For mining, a more viable solution would be to develop a presidential decree in which, after evaluation, are included mining communities that were affected by the eviction of the Caura Plan.
He said another solution would be the certification of proven reserves in order to access a resource, "I do not think that the Venezuelan State is going to risk, without prior economic evaluation of small-scale mining sector, to deliver resources to finance if you have a guarantee of compensation. "
He added that the miners themselves have made their own certification of reserves, noting that each production unit has a monthly production of 300 grams of gold, which sold roughly translate to 70 or 80 thousand Bolivars that could be considered in a plan to encourage short-term revival of small-scale mining in each of the sectors that are legally guaranteed by the state.
Programs
Laura thinks differently Paredes, Commissioner of Mines, Ministry of Basic Industries and Mining (Mibam), describing the Caura Plan as "a sound policy which seeks to combat illegal mining, so they are advertising the career change program to prevent devastate the mining areas and produce a negative impact on the environment. "
"Building programs promoted by the change contemplated Mibam vocational training for those wishing to definitively separate mining mining, may choose to access resources in cooperatives while those wishing to stay in authorized areas can access credit through the loans that the bank offers. "
The deadlines for the cancellation of these loans, granted by Bandes, are 10 years and grace periods are between one and three years, while warranties may relaxed requirements as a concern of most mining .
As reported by the representative of Mibam, so far the band has received 60 projects used to be pre-testing until they have dropped the pre-investment resources, "for now we are seeing the requirements.
"We have no limitations on the number of projects," ensuring that the Ministry of Environment has approved the environmental permits for the six areas that were enacted for small mining and now awaits the signature of the head of the Ministry of Popular Power for Environment Alejandro Hitcher.
Thursday, October 21, 2010 23:24 | | |
Representatives of small-scale mining sector reported the failure that has been the implementation of the Plan Caura, following the eviction of some 15 000 workers who exercised the activity in various areas of southern Bolivar State
Yuly Carreño
Representatives of small-scale mining sector reported the failure that has been the implementation of the Plan Caura, following the eviction of some 15 000 workers who exercised the activity in various areas of southern Bolivar State.
The complaint unveiled at an event organized by various national government agencies including the Ministry of Basic Industry and Mining (Mibam) and Social Development Bank (Bandes) to promote the strengthening program activity mining, which seeks a change of vocation of this economic sector through the financing of various socio-productive.
On behalf of the cooperative artisan miners, Nelly Matute said these programs are inaccessible to small miners because they have no resources after being evicted from their workspaces, "which guarantees the state can ask a person who was evicted and the leave government itself contributed to the ruin. "
Matute is convinced that through this plan will have violated the rights of miners "in every way." "To us it brought us out of the mines, we burned our teams, we were not in any basin, it is false that drove the miners to avoid predation of the Caroni River watershed," said highlighting the case of miners Piar .
He stressed that representatives of the national government "should come clean with the miners, because many of them are starving because of the state (...), implementation of the Plan Caura was a bad policy because it must be applied first before applying an alternative not leave and then see how we were going to relocate, "he said.
Matute reported that after the evacuation areas, from the line of La Paragua to Piar, areas have been occupied by different nationalized foreign companies to the detriment of their quality of life.
Before the eviction about 15 000 miners remained in parts of southern Bolivar state, thanks to temporary permits movement of equipment and fuel that were awarded by the Mibam.
"We bring to us in our workplaces that we are now legal for the military to the miners themselves (...) The Plan did not comply with these permits Caura destroyed and evicted and keeps us is apathy that has engulfed the mining sector the state. "
"Do not think they will eradicate mining because it is an ancestral activity and that is something that nobody is going to change, we call on the Minister of Mines and the President to target the microscope in these ministries where many officials are not solving the problem of small-scale mining. "
Decree
Luis Almeda, spokesman for the Bolivarian Front of Bolivar State mining cooperatives based in El Manteca, where there are about 26 mining cooperatives, said that in this county was encouraged an exploration plan three years ago and has not yet determined the quantification of reserves .
"For us to access funding must be redirected small mining policy towards true social inclusion policy of small producers and mining communities, we find it impossible to access this proposal."
For mining, a more viable solution would be to develop a presidential decree in which, after evaluation, are included mining communities that were affected by the eviction of the Caura Plan.
He said another solution would be the certification of proven reserves in order to access a resource, "I do not think that the Venezuelan State is going to risk, without prior economic evaluation of small-scale mining sector, to deliver resources to finance if you have a guarantee of compensation. "
He added that the miners themselves have made their own certification of reserves, noting that each production unit has a monthly production of 300 grams of gold, which sold roughly translate to 70 or 80 thousand Bolivars that could be considered in a plan to encourage short-term revival of small-scale mining in each of the sectors that are legally guaranteed by the state.
Programs
Laura thinks differently Paredes, Commissioner of Mines, Ministry of Basic Industries and Mining (Mibam), describing the Caura Plan as "a sound policy which seeks to combat illegal mining, so they are advertising the career change program to prevent devastate the mining areas and produce a negative impact on the environment. "
"Building programs promoted by the change contemplated Mibam vocational training for those wishing to definitively separate mining mining, may choose to access resources in cooperatives while those wishing to stay in authorized areas can access credit through the loans that the bank offers. "
The deadlines for the cancellation of these loans, granted by Bandes, are 10 years and grace periods are between one and three years, while warranties may relaxed requirements as a concern of most mining .
As reported by the representative of Mibam, so far the band has received 60 projects used to be pre-testing until they have dropped the pre-investment resources, "for now we are seeing the requirements.
"We have no limitations on the number of projects," ensuring that the Ministry of Environment has approved the environmental permits for the six areas that were enacted for small mining and now awaits the signature of the head of the Ministry of Popular Power for Environment Alejandro Hitcher.
http://www.el-guayanes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=847:pequenos-mineros-denuncian-fracaso-del-plan-caura&catid=37:economia&Itemid=60
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