To the toxic mining they say don’t want: Baxa

National The tall story of never to finish To the toxic mining they say don’t want: Baxa, Mexico By: Carlos Damian November 10, 2012 The transnational mining Sight Gold: assault again on environmental Mexico. - In February of 2010, the tall story is not finished, since the organized and mobilized citizens of Baja California Sur, Mexico; they achieved to stop one of the mining projects more toxic and poisoned of the many mining outlines than exist in Mexico, route generous grants of the federal government. It is considered Paredones Amarillos, of the transnational Canadian Vista Gold (the one which keeps in mind on other seven mining grants in the same been about to the auriferous exploration in to the reservation of the biosphere Sierra de la Laguna). So notorious was resulting the environmental deterioration that would provoke it and project will end, and the Semarnat was obligated by the circumstances to reject the change request of use of forest soil of the referred consortium to begin the development, not without warning that the company not without noticing that the company didn't complete the law requirements. In those dates the Baxa - men celebrated they, their victory, but months after the transnational Canadian with a knife’s edge simply changed to they the name to the cited project: Paredones Amarillos (until February of 2010 were known with this name), it passed to be denominated Minera Concordia (from September of the same year), and without more recaptured the procedure before the Semarnat to achieve the change permits of use of the forest soil and other "smaller things" to begin the development of the concession area. Of new occasion denied to them, environmental permits to the mining project, and the Baxa - men returned to celebrate the victory, though it was so ephemeral as the first, because the federal authorities seems that simply "they don’t understand" of that it treats the business. Thus the citizenship that they are social activists that are concerned about the environment return to give the battle, because if in September of 2010 Paredones Amarillos was "transformed" into Concordia, as of February of 2012 this was converted in ‘Los Cardones’, after the entrepreneurial association (40-60 percent) of Vista Gold with the Group Invecture, the one which counts on their own mining grant in the Sonora State (copper mine Piedras Verdes). The attorney exams Other appearing before the power of the chamber were the aspirants to occupy one of the vacancies of the Supreme Justice Court (SCJN, in Spanish). Before members of the senate exposed their points of view and answered questions Andrea Zambrana, Alberto Gelacio Perez Dayan and Pablo Vicente Monroy, who seek to occupy the chair that it has occupied the right-wing minister, Sergio Salvador Aguirre Anguiano. The examination sham that make some legislating to who seek to arrive to the apex of what is judicial has as is behind the appearance is the arrangement of the dominant political forces to be distributed the available chairs, so that in them remain who in the exercise of the cargo would answer to the interest of who put them there. Thus it results the process from impartation of limited justice to those visions and summit arrangements and no determinant paper plays in the designations and attorney relief. In Mexico as opposed to The States the national structure of civil protection has been conscientiously shattered by the factional nature appointments and of friendship in the executive charges by the funds and resources plunder, by the improvisation and the carelessness and for lack of provision, to face a hurricane Sandy. If we transmitted ourselves to six years back, the preventive federal policeman burst upon Oaxaca State to face to blood and fire the social mobilization against the criminal government of Ulises Ruiz. It was an agreement between the federal administration of the projecting Vicente Fox and the incoming Calderon, gloomy augury of the six years of federal administration of repression and death that he implant that man from Michoacan. The hard hand route emptied in the historical 25 of November and let the road ready for the gloomy arrival of the following managing of the institutional violence. This is the way of the Mexican holocaust, which it is of the PAN as is of the PRI. The transnational after the mining booty The organizations of Baja California indicate that the project of Los Cardones, "it would release inevitably during the grinding process 67 million of arsenic kilograms, that would remain exposed to the outdoors to perpetuity and that with the constant acid rains in the zone would end by contaminating to perpetuity the aquifers, as happened in the zone of San Antonio and Los Planes, where currently there is a very high index of cancer incidences, as well as of contaminated wells". The organizations reiterate that the project anyone that it will be their denomination “is a toxic threat for Baja California, and infringes the decree of the protected national area of La Sierra de la Laguna". They explain that the project "has serious inconvenient, because in addition to trying to be located in the Reservation of the Biosphere ‘La Sierra de la Laguna’, that it is our principal source of water, also would release more than 100 million of kilograms of toxic, between them sufficient arsenic to poison to all the population of the country, in addition to lead, chrome, uranium, thorium, etc. All these heavy and radioactive materials would remain trapped in the mixes, with a curtain superior to 80 meters, built with the rocks rejected in the clay, compacts and covers with a plastic of alone 1.5 mm of thickness. All of the above "it does not give no safety of the fact that the pollutants are gone to remain stored forever, but rather than will be released gradually accordant this structure begin to be deteriorated, or what is probable, is deteriorated in only one event, due to a structural defect, an earthquake or to a dangerous hurricane. The organized citizens we deny ourselves to the fact that impose us the toxic project, but the deaf federal government only facilitates the way to the transnational mining, and to the slow death of the Mexican poisoned by the toxic environmental. (La Jornada, politica, p.p. 5-30, October 30, 2012).