Last week, Raul Jacob, Vice President of Finance, Treasurer and CFO of Southern Copper Corporationrevealed that the Tía María project, in Arequipa, would start operations in 2029 together with Los Chancas and Michiquillay.
“In Peru, we have the three projects that we assume will be operational by the end of this decade, or say, by 2029, we assume that we will have Aunt Maria delivering 123,000 tons for the company, Los Chancas 120,000 tons and Michiquillay 234,00 tons,” said Raúl Jacob in response to a questionnaire released on Tuesday, February 1 by Marcelo Rochabrún, a Reuters journalist, on Twitter.
Speaking to the Observer of Mining Conflicts (OCM), the spokesman for the Defense Front of the Tambo ValleyMario Chiparo Roque, pointed out that with the current government it was difficult for Southern Copper enter; but that these estimates would respond to the fact that the company hopes that its reactivation will be achieved with other governments.
In August of this year, the Environmental Impact Study of the mining company expires, for which Chiparo warned that the current government may be “supporting the administrative process so that they can reactivate in 2029.”
According to estimates by the leader, in the area of influence “there is considerable support for the No to Tía María”. He also pointed out that they are attentive to the new ministers of the new cabinet of the president peter castle.
“Political, there is fear with President (Pedro) Castillo, because we have to be attentive to who the new Ministers of Energy and Mines, Environment and the PCM are going to do. If they will be the same, like Alessandra Herrera Jara who was in the Ministry of Energy and Mines or the Environment, (Wilber Supo) that she is a person who has no knowledge of anything”, he pointed out.
The spokesman indicated that in the legal aspect there are processes that have remained pending, such as the second Environmental Impact Study that has not advanced. In addition, the sentence to the leaders is missing to go down to the first instance. The lawyers will file a cassation measure for the leaders, and if the situation gets complicated they will resort to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
They also hope to be able to meet with the new cabinet to point out their demands. Likewise, he recalled that when Mirtha Vásquez presided over the cabinet, they asked for a meeting to see the sentence to the leaders and the development alternatives for the Tambo Valley, but it never happened, which caused discomfort in the population.
Source: Larepublica
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