If Conga becomes a mine, it will be a great chance for development because:
1. There will be more water for the fields.
2. It will promote development programs during 20 years.
3. There will be training programs and employment.
4. It will boost the local and regional economy.
5. It will allow the state to generate incomes through the taxes.
6. It will generate mining royalties for the local development.
Our lack of knowledge of the current mining industry.
1. The mining industry on the head of the river basin leaves towns without water
• Every mine, by law, has to guarantee the same quantity of water which users used to have before. A mine with social responsibility will look after harvesting more water for its neighbors.
2. Mining pollutes
• The laws and regulations have changed drastically. In Peru, the state protects the environmental equilibrium. A modern mine: Instead of avoiding the environmental liability (alleviation), its technicians generate more environmental assets (reservoirs, laboratories of agriculture experimentation, new technologies for ecological monitoring, etc)
3. Mining companies avoid people participation
• It is impossible to start a mining project without the EIA’s approval by the Ministry.
Activities promoting citizen participation are essential for an EIA. Activities promoting citizen participation are essential for an EIA, so a company committed to its community visits villages, talks to popular leaders, provides information materials, among other activities.
4. EIAs are cooked from the beginning
• Once the Environmental Impact Assessment is approved, a set of standards must be fulfilled by the company in order to ensure an adequate social and environmental management. An EIA must satisfy the regulatory framework of our country.
5. Mining impoverishes people
• Poverty is a problem that Government must face up. Mining royalty generates public incomes. However, a company aware of this big challenge, invests in social programs to improve the life quality of the neighbors. Therefore, they can go beyond and promote projects fostering institutional strengthening.
What you can find in the Environmental Impact Assessment.
1. If lakes disappear, farmers will run out of water
• Conga will affect 4 lakes: Three of them will be replaced by reservoirs and one will increase its storage capacity.
2. Tailings will pollute all the basins
• The deposit design of the tailings incorporates all the control measures to avoid pollution in the natural environment. On the other hand, the tailings will be thicker to minimize infiltrations
3. EIA was created without people participation
• Without the audience, around 1800 people who live in the project area, have taken part in the EIA workshops besides other activities such as; visits, meeting, conferences (Thursday dialogues), and technical expositions among others.
4. Reservoirs affect the equilibrium of the zone
• Conga Project will build dykes as reservoirs. What is a dyke? They are floodgates built over natural ravines which allow storing water during rainy seasons. So, the water is stored in the same ravine without affecting the area keeping the same conditions.
When a responsible mine is set up in high places, it must respect the quantity of water spent by the involved basins. For example, before Conga Project operates, 4 reservoirs will be built to assure enough water in dry seasons. These 4 reservoirs might even have more storage capacity (double) than the current lakes. In other words, more efficient the mining is, more water there will be.
Read more...Conga Project will build dykes as reservoirs.
What is a dyke? They are floodgates built over the natural ravines, which allow storing water in rainy seasons. So, the water stored in the same ravine will allow the place to keep the same conditions. Most important of all, farmers will have water in dry seasons.
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