Ethics
Court will discuss the Mining Frontier and the major environmental conflicts
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By 30 September this year is scheduled the first meeting of the Ethics Tribunal on the Mining Frontier, an organization that seeks to confront and denounce civil society from a new industrial aggression against the environment. So informed 
Lucio Cuenca, director of the Latin American Observatory for Environmental Conflicts (OLCA), adding that this is an initiative of the Metropolitan area organizations that provide assistance to various communities in conflict with mining projects in the country borders .
Cuenca said that thanks to the Chilean-Argentine Mining Treaty, signed in 1997 and ratified in 2001, the project Pascualama to Despite the problems it has had, is about to unfold and that is just the first of many to come.
The following, as estimated, is El Pachón in Chile is at the height of Salamanca but would be operated by Argentina. However, due to the trans-Andean mountainous topography in this area, all production must go through our territory. In the first Tribunal
Ethics on the Mining Frontier, will be analyzed cases that are happening between Mexico and Guatemala, Salvador, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Chile. Major conflicts
established between border communities and Mining companies have to see, as designated by the director of OLCA with predatory use of water resources, pollution of local environments and regional interventions. Cuenca
further noted that this is a new scenario, but the potential to generate many problems in the region because local laws are not prepared for it.
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