PCM summons the SNMPE to resolve controversies with mining companies in Ayacucho

The Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM) announced that it will convene the National Society of Mining, Petroleum and Energy (SNMPE) to resolve the controversies generated around the continuity of the Pallancata, Inmaculada and Apumayo mining projects, in Ayacucho, which are in the process of closing.

This, after the Ministers of the Environment, Rubén Ramírez, and of Energy and Mines, Eduardo González Toro; In addition, the vice ministers of Mines, Jorge Chávez Cresta, and of Environmental Management, Mariano Castro, held a meeting at the headquarters of the PCM.

With them was also Miriam Alegría, head of the Environmental Assessment and Enforcement Agency (OEFA), which in the last hours reported that Ayacucho will be the first region with a methodological framework to identify and zoning headwaters of the basin.

As you remember, after the premiere Mirtha Vasquez, will announce that compliance with the closure plans of four mining projects belonging to the companies Apumayo, Sami and Compañía Minera Ares, with the Inmaculada and Pallancata units, located in the south of Ayacucho, will be ratified, the Minem clarified that this is coming giving within the framework of the regular process established by regulations.

From Hochschild, a subsidiary of Ares (Inmaculada and Pallancata), extended “a call to the prime minister to clarify the real scope of the act signed in Cora Cora and, furthermore, to reconsider the illegal position adopted.”

Meanwhile, the representatives of Apumayo maintained that it was demanded that “legal guarantees be provided to establish an objective dialogue table” that would lead to peaceful solutions, translated into an expansion of its operations.

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