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Argentina: Mendoza Province Senate approves copper mining project amid intense protests
The Mendoza Provincial Senate has given final approval to the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the controversial PSJ Cobre Mendocino mining project, with 29 votes in favor, 6 against, and 1 abstention. The decision was reached despite massive protests due to fears of water contamination.
The Mendoza Senate approved the Declaration of Environmental Impact of the PSJ Cobre Mendocino project, the first major advance to enable the exploitation of a copper deposit in Uspallata, in the department of Las Heras. The provincial upper house approved it by 29 votes in favor, 6 against and one abstention.The decision marks a turn for a province with a history of social resistance to megamining.The process included a public hearing of ten da…
With 29 votes in favour, 6 against and one abstention, the Mendocino Senate approved four mining projects. The Mendoza Senate approved by a large majority the return of metal mining to the province of Cuyo, slowed down for 14 years. The vote took place amid protests by environmental groups. The vote ratified the Declaration of Environmental Impact (DIA) for the exploitation of the San Jorge Cobre Mendocino (PSJ) project in the mountain range tow…
In the program "Welcome to the train", by Bravo TV, they analyzed the controversial vote that enabled the progress of the San Jorge project in full social mobilization. Read more
The governor of Mendoza highlighted the definitive sanction that the Senate granted to the Declaration of Environmental Impact of the San Jorge Project, an advance that, he said, marks the reactivation of large-scale mining in Mendoza. He also highlighted the technical support, political consensus and the role of copper in the energy transition. Mendoza’s governor, Alfredo Cornejo, celebrated Tuesday the ratification that the provincial Senate g…
After the approval of the project in the provincial Senate, which had 29 votes in favor including that of 5 senators and senators of Peronism, there was a massive mobilization demonstrating a great repudiation. Since the afternoon thousands of mendocins and mendocins are concentrated in the KM0 to express the popular rejection of the project. There are more than ten thousand people in the streets. On Tuesday, after 2.30 pm, the Senate of the Pro…
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