Eco disaster in Venezuela bigger than the country of Panama
Ecocide of the Orinoco Mining Arc is bigger than Panama
12/06/2017
By: Víctor Peña
translated from Spanish
In a territorial extension of 111,843 square kilometers are the largest mineral riches of Venezuela. Coltan, gold and diamonds are the most sought after to the south of the Orinoco river in the state of Bolívar. The project advances and advances without the corresponding environmental and socio-cultural impact studies having been prepared. The most affected of this ecocide are the indigenous peoples and the ecosystems of world interest, since the Orinoco Mining Arc is part of the Amazon .
"The form of organization promoted by the government of the small mining sector, which is the socialist mining brigades, continues to use cyanide, " said Edgar López, journalist and principal author of the investigative work Arco Minero del Orinoco, crime, corruption and cyanide in conversation with Reinaldo Pulido and He also stressed that small-scale mining also uses mercury.
"The cyanide is not a clean alternative ," added the journalist who in turn compared this experience with an Argentine cyanidation company that presented contamination problems with the same material, against briefcase companies created by Gold Reserve, a Canadian firm, which they have not been able to guarantee a friendly mining with the environment.
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http://fedecamarasradio.com/ecocidio-del-arco-minero-del-orinoco-mas-grande-panama/
