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Argentine MPs to Debate Watered-Down Glaciers Protection
Environmental groups warn the changes could threaten water reserves as supporters say the bill would clear up legal ambiguities and attract investment.
- On Wednesday, Argentine MPs began debating a bill promoted by President Javier Milei to amend Law 26,639, authorizing mining in ecologically sensitive glacier and permafrost areas of the Andes.
- President Milei argues the amendment removes "ideological distortions and artificial obstacles" holding back progress; Michael Meding, director of the Los Azules copper mining project in San Juan, says the sector seeks "legal certainty."
- Environmental groups and UN special rapporteurs warn the reforms "would put aquatic ecosystems at risk, including groundwater," potentially threatening water supply for 70 percent of Argentinians.
- Seven activists were arrested Wednesday after scaling a monument at the National Congress to protest the bill, though government sources expect to secure 140 votes for passage.
- If the Chamber of Deputies adopts the bill late Wednesday, it becomes law once signed; the amendment shifts glacier location decisions from scientific authorities to provincial governors.
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BUENOS AIRES (AP) — The Argentine Chamber of Deputies will debate Wednesday to turn into law a controversial project that relaxes the protection of glaciers promoted by ultraliberal president Javier Milei to attract millions of mining investments and that organizations mediaamb
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