While the Mexican capital company Southern Copper Corporation He insists on giving the construction of the Aunt María Mining Project this year, the population of the Tambo Valley and the leaders of the Southern region announce a new stoppage for this Monday, February 17.
While on more than one occasion, social organizations have warned that Environmental Impact Study (EIA) He lost validity or expired, Southern is scheduled for this year to start the construction of roads and access points, establish a temporary camp, as well as perform mining cleaning activities. To date, they have installed and delimited the property through a 59 -kilometer fence.
“Tía María generará ingresos significativos para la región Arequipa desde el primer día de sus operaciones. Al precio actual de cobre, esperamos exportar US$17.500 millones y contribuir con US$3.400 millones en impuestos y regalías durante los primeros 20 años de operación. Este año, We hope to start the construction, “reads Southern’s presentation on the results of the fourth quarter of 2024.
According to Miguel Meza, spokesman of the Tambo Valley, the attitude of this company is provocative “because they have mentioned that they socialized the scope of the project to the population.” However, the leader ensures that they do not have the social license and that the popular consultation made on October 28, 2009 must be respected, in which more than 90% of voters pronounced against.
“It has been a long time, but those results are maintained. The majority say no to the Aunt María project and that is why, in a popular assembly we decided to enter an indefinite strike. Recall that Dina Boluarte has lied to the people because she signed a commitment to cancel the Aunt María project and to release social fighters “; He emphasized.
For his part, the congressman Jaime Quito of the Socialist Bankstressed that this mining project in charge of Southern “does not have technical viability, for having an expired EIA and for being a threat to the environment and agriculture.” Along these lines, the parliamentarian does not see a possible dialogue between the government and the population, because the Boluarte regime is “stubborn to end the main food dispensation of the Peruvian South.”
They will present amparo action against Aunt María
As this newspaper reported, the leaders Miguel Meza and Roger Chirapo submitted two legal resources to stop the Tía María project: a request for nullity of the resolution that authorized its construction in 2019 and a request to the senace to join as a third party in the administrative procedure referred to the evaluation of the second supporting report (STIs). Both measures were declared inadmissible in mid -December 2024 by the Judiciary.
“We questioned two things. For the modification of the second STIs as the validity of the environmental certification, which is the approval of the EIA. By declaring them inadmissible, what is coming now is to resort to the judicial route through the presentation of an amparo action Because it is the only resource that would remain for the settlers to demand that the regularity of the environmental procedure be fulfilled, “said Rodrigo Laurecio, a member of the legal team of the Muqui Network.
As the lawyer remembers, the National Environmental Certification Service for Sustainable Investments (SENACE) gave compliance to the second STIs of the Mining Unit Aunt Mariapresented by Southern Peru Copper Corporation at the end of November last year. “Therefore, the mining company has had the authorizations to carry out the respective modifications,” he added.
For the leaders of the Tambo Valley And the specialist consulted, it is evident that there is a business and political decision to impose the Tía María mining project. In that line, they recalled that the Mexican capital company does not have official authorization to use residual surface waters.
“Until now, the obtaining of a water use license has not been specified before the Ana or DiCapi. What the company maintains in the last year is that water will desalination, but that does not mean that there is not going to be an environmental impact .
FACT
- The Southern company has just updated the budget for Aunt María to US $ 1,802 million. Similarly, they stressed that production activities will begin in 2027 and that the project will generate 764 direct jobs and 4,800 indirect jobs.
Source: Larepublica
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