GREGORENSES MARTHA MINE CLOSURE ON MAKING
La Asamblea de vecinos autoconvocados de Gobernador Gregores Santa Cruz, SOLICITA A NACION, PROVINCIA, ASAMBLEAS CIUDADANAS Y PRENSA, FIJAR EYE IN THE PROCESS OF CLOSING OF MARTHA MINE - to methodology employed by Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation, which will be a model to understand the looting, lack of protection for employees working and non-compliance with environmental legislation.
mine since its inception in 2002 has exceeded more than 300,000 kilograms of silver steadily increased and estimated consolidated reserves of the mine for eight years to stop being profitable, producing in the first half of 2007 almost 40.000 kilos of silver and estimated proved reserves as of June 2007 to 215,000 kilograms, ie 25% higher than 2006 levels, unable to calculate the exact date metal obtained abandons the concept of "environmental sustainability, labor, community development and nearby region, against the closure decision."
This process worthy of note because it is Mina Martha the first to close under the bad legislation Menem decade, opens the way to analyze and understand how it consolidates and carries forward a process of depletion of natural resources, putting at risk of not renewable resources such as water, and the legal intricacies that make a company to avoid responsibilities to the State, affected communities and workers now unemployed.
Where there's smoke ... Since
ran strongly COEUR version of Martha Mine closure, between workers and residents Gregores Governor have started to happen a number of events seen in the distance and especially in the first half of 2010, could well be taken as isolated, but finally followed a line leading to a clear and concise objective.
In July 2010 the plant with approximately 130 employees, began to thin tasks in different areas, with the administrative one of the first to notice this consequence. A short time later and individually, it was inviting area managers to draw up lists of names of employees who "were not entirely necessary," for the operation that would set the company up to October this year, when calculated for the complete cessation of activity.
As this happened, it happened a few attempts to counter positive results basically closed at assessing their low future expected returns and the burden of existing staff. It is important to note at this point that when a company completes its task by low profitability and sell to another company manages the mine, is much riskier for the environmental damage made the successor, given the tasks that face such as through the tailings material still contains gold and silver tailings discarded by the first would operate between other modalities.
The first twenty workers designated to leave the company, were summoned individually to hierarchical COEUR lawyers, who offered what they call "Bonus Compensation", suggesting a tempting amount to "resign without legal action, condition also advised by the union AOMA to their members on record to clarify that to take the issue to justice, would take a long time to collect judgments, getting even less money than that offered under this Scheme, which is why they accepted the deal. It should be noted that these awards will range between thirty and seventy thousand dollars by seniority, vacation, bonuses, etc. The process ended with the signing of "acts committed" and acceptance of the terms gross to officials from the Ministry of Labour of Rio Gallegos, was complemented by post-occupational medical examination conducted at a clinic known Vecina Puerto San Julian; the same that is responsible for developing the occupational pre no more complex than a routine examination. officials Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation will gradually withdrawing from the scene, as in the case of Ben Suringar days ago who left their jobs, while others do not have any relation with the environment or the employees come to occupy transient places, after a closure is not advertised as such but as "impasse" as the Mining Journal Press, and according to the Boards of Governors Gregores is just a ploy to not perform environmental remediation work or afford the social. The site opened that President Cristina Fernández no more than two years ago, will soon close its doors starting a process of natural leaching of the tailings abandoned the ground and underground, crossing the air, contaminating our fields just for lack of political production agricultural, passing into oblivion as so many stays abandoned the area, or for the benefit of advertising discourse mining the Governor Peralta, the deputies (Jorge Turineto) of the Councillors who declared interest or activity Vasquez Mayor, while the immense benefits of mining, have been only a delusion of naive children. Understand
worthy and genuine work is synonymous with durable, sustainable material remains pending. Understand that gold, silver, oil are heirlooms that could well secure a future for santacruceños consistent, too.
Balancing the mineral extraction industry to tourism, with our natural beauty with archaeological heritage also form profitable and prosperous industry, undoubtedly is incomplete.
All this must be on the agenda of the next officers, new, those to come, not in today, knowing that knowledgeable and warned of the danger, play Russian roulette with our destiny and our resources. For now they, the current must find work for unemployed men that just might make their homes, and they can not ensure their children study because the activity would change their lives, barely lasted the space of a sigh.
Santa Cruz, the land of promise, which owns oil and gas, gold, silver, is doomed to be the treasure plundered by pirates, if nothing changes his conduct, if not change their officials. If you choose not to govern men as well with clear thinking and clean hands.
versions are now many and varied: "Do not close but will enter a imapasse", "Santa Cruz Fomicruz state miner will pay U.S. employees COUEUR", "Mina Martha acquire Triton to clean its image in the community, taking employees who will later leave the street are so many versions "..., ..., so many.
But all these stories that matter if the gold is gone, taken away. Land left abandoned with a sign No Trespassing Private Property, and nothing has happened here!.
If you import! Of course it matters! We can still do something. Check the closing COEUR!. To protect the interests of workers, make sure to remedy environmental liabilities inherit for nothing ... for nothing.
We must put our full attention on Triton Manantial Espejo six times the number of operators working with cyanide, which creates the danger from every possible angle: potential environmental risk, potential harm to people, poor uptime prohibited under this system largely obsolete the world.
need to change our mining legislation urgently! Can no longer afford ourselves the luxury of at risk, lie to ourselves, others poor to rich. We need to stop devaluing our alternatives as "pure Patagonia, as producers of food free of contaminants such as tourist region for nothing that others become much. We need to change course
unconditionally.
Assemblymen who are but mere men who understand these issues in view of everyone, taken from numerous models enough to learn from disasters, poverty and inequality arising from the mining and allow it in our country, we our daily activities to go to convince our neighbors and friends - more than one occasion were officials and neighbors today than ever before greeted us yesterday, and today we do not know for what reason have dazzled by colored mirrors - which is necessary to claim a different mining.
Now we are the enemy. Those who insist that no royalties are barely sufficient. Those who demand the elimination of cyanide leaching, we ask for greater controls. Those who try to persuade the intermediary institutions, local organizations "Avoid asking" under the concept: TOTAL ALL TAKE SOMETHING then let them out, getting only crumbs of what is ultimately ours. Enemies
wonder who and Assemblymen. Was not this what we said?
not repeat that the concept of sustainability used by the mining is fallacious because it depletes the resource, threatening others and only takes a few years?
warn not only local businesses that you buy at the start and then bring everything out?
not warned they will close their plants if they are not profitable, leaving the people on the street and the State must take care of them, being more expensive to remedy than the disease?
not comment thousand and one time in addition to gold and silver we give our cities, our roads, our services for nothing?
Now we ask our mayor, governor and deputies, which is what MARTHA MINE COEUR left. Where no see!.
All you will be another disappointment rather than join with the many. Therefore
Neighborhood Assembly Gregores Governor urges the Federal Government, Provincial and local levels in all their estates, as well as to the press as a witness of a process that is just starting to put strict attention to the closing process of COEUR MARTHA MINE, and the study and immediate change in the legislation governing mining in the entire territory of the Republic and especially in Santa Cruz.
Autoconvocados Neighborhood Assembly Governor Gregores
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