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México. - The Sonora and Bacanuchi rivers are dead,
the company in its thirst of earnings, like in multiple occasions, it has
omitted measures it basic security to avoid dangerous conditions and
disasters that attempt against the human life and the nature. It is not the
first time neither it will be the last one and perhaps it is the only one
mining in the country that affects the natural balance and the life of people
that surround to the mining one seriously.
We have that the event in Sonora State that is to the north of Mexico
and it is opposite with The States it is a tragedy of enormous dimensions. Breaking
the regulations of the Semarnat in particular the article 159 from 2011, the
mining Buenavista from Cananea, Sonora, and other transformation industries
like the massive production of pigs, the petrochemical one, the industries
that produce insecticides, have caused similar disasters and they are a
common danger for the population's life and their health.
We have that the Federal
Government's politics in the last governments has been permissive to let that
the transnational companies plunder our resources favoring the accumulation
for spoil as today it is happening in the one it finishes off of garage of
strategic resources of gas, petroleum and electricity. That which is
reflected when opening our doors to the fracking and the mining to open sky
that they are very polluting to the environmental and the population's
health. We stagger us it is observed that the sanitary authorities stay quiet
and to the margin their obligation of looking after the life of the
Mexicans. From the perspective of the
fourth Forum of the social construction of the right to the health, we should
force to the state to stop the delivery and liberal finish off of the nature,
because the health and the life of thousands of Mexicans are in danger. By
virtue of the existence of sanitary norms we should force to the state that it
takes the necessary measures to avoid that mining Mexico continues killing and
poisoning the population.
Official Juan Jose Guerra
Abud (JGA) it classified the spill that affects to 24 thousand people like a “negligence”
of the company, and he said that only the Secretary of Economy (SE, for their
initials in Spanish) it can retire the concession. Although they have chatted
with the executive of SE, Ildefonso Guajardo, they have not thought about the
possibility to cancel the operations of the mining one. In the presentation
of the report of the federal government's actions in attention to the spill
of copper sulfate in the rivers Bacanuchi and Sonora, happened August 6 in
facilities of the company Buenavista del Cobre in Cananea, Sonora. The
executive of Semarnat admits that the law is lax and he doesn't force to
close to the company. The executive JGA mentioned that the company has
insisted in that the accident happened up for rains of the stocking, but the
reports of the National Meteorological Service indicate that this is false
and the spill was due to the flaw of a tube for a wrong design that was made
in the facilities of the mining one. He explained that the spill happened
August 6 on the stream Tinajas, the day 7 inhabitants of the area warned to
the Unit of Civil Protection of Sonora, and August 8 the company notified to
the federal authority, but formally it made it later four days.
The officials enumerated
the measures that they have taken since they had knowledge of the dangerous
spill. The executive of Conagua, David Korenfeld has carried out a thousand
20 samples carried out in certified laboratories, and the arsenic presence,
cadmium, chromium was detected, lead, copper, aluminum and iron with levels “outside
of ecological norms and of health, as well as of the state of the quality of
the previous river to the spill". He explained that the symptoms that it
causes the contamination for that type of substances are damage to the mucous
ones, and if there is ingest damages they would be presented to the digestive
system, nauseas, diarrheas, and weakness. It could also have damages to the
liver and kidneys. In spite of the above-mentioned, the executive of Profepa,
Guillermo Haro, asserted that the company cannot be closed totally and you
can only close the area in which they overflowed the toxic residuals. He
explained that they are in revision nine decisive points of study of
environmental impact to detect bigger irregularities. "The mine is one
of the biggest of the world, the biggest in Mexico."
The industry milkmaid has thrown the milky one to
the street; "nobody buys it"
He added that of the
measures of urgent application that the Profepa requested to the company.
This has only fulfilled one. During the visit that was made last Friday (08/22/14)
to the area, it was detected that in the riverbanks of the rivers there are
waste that should be retired, and that in a contention border that was
requested to the company there are filtrations that can take more polluting
toward the rivers of Sonora. It was already integrated a previous
verification for the responsible consignment of the presumed ones before a
judge, in the one that the company would be fined with millions of dollars,
and the Profepa it has closed the only serious irregularity in the mine, the
spill of toxic of the swimming pool of having leached that it caused the
population's poisoning, of flora and the fauna of Sonora.
Inhabitants of the
municipality of Banamichi took the governorship of that town in protest for
the insufficient supply of water, because of the restriction for the
contamination of the Sonora river, with more than 40 thousand cubic meters of
toxic acid, in damage of around 4 thousand inhabitants that fear to lose
their crops and livestock. Those producing of milk of that region have had to
throw the milky one of you milk them because you cannot market for the
emergency that one lives in the area, where the desperation and dissent of
those around 22 thousand affected villagers of seven municipalities, grow day
with day. From August 8 they were closed the wells located to 500 meters of
both riverbanks of the river to avoid that the contamination caused by the
mine Buenavista del Cobre, branch of Grupo Mexico, to arrive to the
underground, where it would generate bigger damages to the ecosystem and it
would expose the population to severe intoxications in case it wasted away
the water.
Impunity to mining companies
The governor had information of the dissent
that there are among residents of Banamichi, and “there are protests, people
wanting answers; it is necessary to give a prompt answer to all the
inhabitants". Inhabitants of the municipality of Aconchi, Ures and Baviacora
also showed their dissent in the social nets, where they complained that they
have not been able to market cheeses and other products. "We are in a
true emergency, there are people that already has days without eating or
he/she has eaten waste; the inhabitants of these towns live a day and if they
don't work they don't eat; the help is insufficient", Irma Barron
Espinoza, inhabitant of Ures exposed. Elías Padres's government (PAN), they
will relocate 300 wells in the seven affected municipalities, and with it is
looked for it that 22 thousand people have access to the liquid of life.
Although Rodrigo Olvera says that: in Mexico a lot of precarious work is
generating, what resembles each other to modern forms of slavery, and the
constant violations to all the rights of the workers, included the rights to
the life.
"We are living a
stage of labor violence of State, because the government institutions,
legislatives and judicial they are not to impose the right state, but to take
care of the employer interests", she said. In this context, the sector
of the mining of coal is the paradigm of this labor violence of the State.
The companies dominate the economy of the regions, the social life and they
are untouchable for the federal government, it concluded. (La Jornada, politica, p.p. 2-5, August 27,
2014).
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