MrDC article18 Mar 2018 11:27
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Galicia
Drafting
03/17/2018
Recently Aldea Viva Association appealed to the so-called "Principle of Caution" and the responsibility of the Galician executive not to give the green light to the reopening and expansion of a mining project "that can cause an unprecedented environmental disaster" in the Touro area. Now the entity goes a step further and shows the environmental disaster caused by the stage of copper exploitation developed from 1973 to 1986 in stunning images taken from the air.
Pollution derived from mining activity in Touro, seen from the air / Aldea Viva
In fact, according to the data from the analysis of waters from the river Portapego and the Pucheiras stream made at the end of last November by the Chemical Engineering Laboratory of the University of A Coru�a to which the association could access, the situation of departure in Touro is "absolutely unsustainable" while the promoter of the project, Cobre San Rafael SL, participated by Atalaya Mining and Explotaciones Gallegas "only talks about a hypothetical restoration" once the project is completed, in which first it is necessary to devastate for later try to recompose "in an approach that for Aldea Viva" can only be insane ".
Thus, the data show that the waters of the Portapego River show a hyper-acid pH well above the allowed standards, presenting high levels of nickel (Ni, more than 7 times above the allowed average), zinc (Zn), copper (Cu ), aluminum (Al), manganese (Mn) and iron (Fe), surpassing in the latter two cases in 20 and 1,000 times respectively the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as sanitary criteria for a water that may be considered suitable for consumption.
In the case of the Pucheiras stream -they declare from Aldea Viva- "the situation is equally lamentable", with a copper mobilization (Cu), which is 6 times higher than the annual average set by the environmental quality standards, with the presence of significant amounts of zinc (Zn) and nickel (Ni), and also with very high values ​​of other metals such as aluminum (Al), iron (Fe) and manganese (Mn), which greatly exceed the recommendations of WHO and sanitary criteria for drinking water.
For these reasons, the association has rejected in a restrictive way "the songs of siren" published in media by the Cobre San Rafael mining company referring to the "sustainability" of a mining project "of the XXI century", as the company warns in the documentation submitted for processing of the serious consequences that could result for the population and the environment the hypothetical failure of the dams that contain the deposits of sterile, "given that you can not guarantee indefinite maintenance of them."
Topics: Aldea Vivamina de Touro Association
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