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Natalie Garci'a
Photo William Urdaneta
The illegal mining, without a doubt, has a high environmental impact
The auriferous mining finds in the country limitations more and more. To the implemented mining reconversion in the 2006 - that it had as intention to relocate to the artisan miners in other headings followed the modification of the Regime of Commercialization of Gold and its Alloys to him and the Caura Plan.
All this takes place in the days of good prices of the metal, that in the last three years have touched their historical maximums (1,577 dollars the ounce).
Neither great nor the small companies have managed to benefit with the activity. In the case of the illegal mining this hard has been fought without until now there is a solution for an important sector that requires of labor stability and guarantees.
In this scope the government has made innumerable promises, from plants processors of yucca, tourist projects, farming developments, credits and others without obtaining that the homeless miners are incorporated effectively to plans that provide a sustenance to him without depending on the State.
Breach after another one
Dave Marsden, executive director of Komisuko and mining adviser, the past comment that the implementation of the Caura Plan in April of year, it was not more than a “disguise” not only to remove to a group from miners that toiled illegally in a protected zone environmentally, but also to evacuate other areas that by tradition has been operated and could be legalized.
“The social economic impact of the Caura Plan was beastly, that is the word and the State knows to it, because many people were without anything and have had to return in secrecy with the consent of the military to continue working and to live”.
It adds that this is, as well, the form “hide-and-seek I interest” on a sector that has many dolientes and few collaborators. It explains that for more of a year leaders of the sector they have tried that 5,440 hectares near the Supamo Parapapoi are authorized for the legal work of cooperatives and the organized mining, without this is possible only because lack the company/signature of the minister of the Atmosphere Alexander Hitcher.
Possibilities that do not arrive
“We do not know what they are playing, we cannot conceive which is the origin of this negligence. Everything is ready, including the study of environmental impact, the zone was evaluated by the Cuba-Venezuela agreement that cost along with another study in the zone of Tin Leaf 125 million dollars. Nobody understands what happens”.
In average each miner directly benefits 5 people, and indirectly to 10. During decades the mining was the sustenance of tens of towns in the organization, after the mining reconversion many of those places have been desolated at the mercy of hampa and with little possibilities of development.
For that reason it is that Marsden vindicates the possibility of a small viable mining and that fulfills all the effective norms from the Law of Mines to the Penal Law of the Atmosphere. “God Santo what happens? That is the question, It is that there are so many interests behind the mining that is not possible to organize it”.
Upsettings in the Caura
More than 20 thousand people they were removed from different areas after the implementation from the Caura Plan. A group operated the mineral in the Caura Stop, in the Sucre municipality, to the West of the state Bolivar, where every day the life is harder and the few existing jobs depend on the public institutions.
Many of those people in view of which jobs or alternative was not located in to subsist returned to work in the forest, to 30 hours, divided between navigation and long walks, from Maripa. But from the past week - presumably they are being removed, violating his human rights.
Carmen Ledezma, main spokeswoman of the miners, denounced that curiaras and eaten has been destroyed in the middle of the military activity. Offended tens of have fled by the forests without until now there is an uprising on the measurement in the zone.
1,577 dollars the ounce is the historical price of gold reached in May of the 2011. At present the metal quotes in 1.552 dollars.
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