Guasare ecological disaster A cause Carbozulia
reported a spill of more than one hundred thousand liters of diesel oil
Monday, February 28, 2005
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New Carbozulia cause ecological disaster by spilling some cases 20 thousand liters of diesel fuel than they are today to the Rio Socuy
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Wayuu communities reported that large areas remain contaminated which killed many farm animals, in spite of which the company suspended work collection of contaminated materials and dead animals such as fish, alligators, etc. (Photo J. Hines)
The environmental incident occurs at a time when CORPOZULIA announces the production of 100 million tonnes in agreement with the company Vale do Rio Doce of Brazil resulted in the company CARBOSURAMERICA. An accidental spill of the waste lagoon company Carbones del Guasare caused a fish kill, cattle and goats in peasant farms adjacent to the coal mine Paso del Diablo to the west of Venezuela, affecting rural families living on Wuayuú husbandry and agriculture. "It is not the first time that there is contamination, the lagoons where waste coal company launches its derivatives of hydrocarbons and other poisonous compounds overflows every time it rains hard, but this time say it was an accident (...) He said Alejandro Urdaneta, President of the Association of Residents of New Matera community.
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hundred yards down the river before we could feel the pungent smell of fuel
. (Photo J. Hines)
" Since the arrival of coal companies began rivers to decompose, many pipes are dry, and for some time now, and we can not fish to feed our families, because eating these fish is like trying kerosene "and there are fewer fish in the streams .... "
Mauritius Palmar, leader of the Association of Residents of El Paso, in a nearby community, corroborates Urdaneta, and he said the company Carbones del Guasare engaged several unemployed place to "clean up" the barrel, and yet not has finished paying personnel. "They picked up some contaminated material from the edge of the pipe, put a" membrane absorber 'to collect oil, which soon became saturated and still remains in the river, while the toxic elements are running toward the Rio Socuy, and Lake Maracaibo , via Rio Limon "(...)
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Mauricio Alejandro Urdaneta and
Palmar Representatives New Matera communities and El Paso, respectively
(Photo J. Hines)
For her part, Teresa González, Wuayuú breeder said that "when my cows came to drink water in the pipe, two of my cows that aborted, and some goats have died and others were sad and shoving. "I was not the only injured, also died goats, sheep, goats and others. Other farmers lost animals that drank water in the pipe (...) It was pitiful the amount of lost fish, the mortality of alligators and other forest animals such as iguanas, dead. "
Farmers took us to a spout near El Paso, where he reported that the Coal Company (Carbozulia) together with the Ministry of Environment, to work forward on 17 February with a group of unemployed hired to collect fish and other dead animals and material spills and impregnated pipe, about 15 kilometers from the mine , derrame.Unos birthplace of one hundred meters down the river before we could receive a pervasive smell of diesel, and upon arrival, observed a wide film que se formaba persistentemente en la superficie del rio la típica película iridiscente que delata la presencia de hidrocarburos, después de un mes del derrame. En el caño estuvimos aproximadamente una hora recibiendo los testimonios, tomando fotografias y filmando el desdichado fenómeno.El agua de este caño fluye hacia el Guasare ubicado a unos 3 km de allí y finalmente van a parar al Lago de Maracaibo, vía Rio Limón.”
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Observese la iridiscencia típica de la presencia de hidrocarburos
en el agua. (Foto J. HInestroza)
Según las declaraciones recogidas for us among the peasants, the coal company were informed that on 3 January this year there was an accidental release of 20,000 liters of diesel (gas oil) from the waste pond located in the vicinity of the Paso del Diablo Mine. They also claim to know the real number of the spill reaches 120 thousand liters of diesel. It was known at that lagoon waste is thrown all kinds of toxic materials and waste mineral fuels, lubricants, detergents, chemicals, etc.
La Mina "Paso Diablo coal mine is operated by Carbones del Guasare, SA Carbozulia owned in partnership with Anglo American plc, and RAG Group (*), under a grant covering 14,749.67 hectares, located 83 Km from Maracaibo. Is operated with the bloody art of "open pit bringing devastating consequences for the ecosystem and affecting the Guasare River, one of the most important tributaries of the basin of Lake Maracaibo, located in the municipality Mara.
Según las declaraciones recogidas for us among the peasants, the coal company were informed that on 3 January this year there was an accidental release of 20,000 liters of diesel (gas oil) from the waste pond located in the vicinity of the Paso del Diablo Mine. They also claim to know the real number of the spill reaches 120 thousand liters of diesel. It was known at that lagoon waste is thrown all kinds of toxic materials and waste mineral fuels, lubricants, detergents, chemicals, etc.
La Mina "Paso Diablo coal mine is operated by Carbones del Guasare, SA Carbozulia owned in partnership with Anglo American plc, and RAG Group (*), under a grant covering 14,749.67 hectares, located 83 Km from Maracaibo. Is operated with the bloody art of "open pit bringing devastating consequences for the ecosystem and affecting the Guasare River, one of the most important tributaries of the basin of Lake Maracaibo, located in the municipality Mara.
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. Teresa: "My pregnant cows aborted after drinking tap water"
(Photo J. Hines)
This information was gathered during a visit by the National Front for the Defense of Water and Life, made Friday February 25, 2005, the cities of Matera and the New Paso, where they were Tech Sgt (R) Ramon Carrero, Prof (Light) George Hines, Prof. (Light) Hector Arciniegas, and Max Pugh, a journalist with the BBC in London, who met with many farmers Wayuu the above communities about 10 miles from the coal mine "Paso Diablo" in the vicinity of the recent environmental disaster.
Our final comments you want to call this situation the Bolivarian government thinking about the proposal to raise production in the Sierra de Perija. The exploitation of coal deposits of Cachirí, from where the Guasare Rios, Socuy and Cachirí, which flow to Manuelote Tule reservoirs and threaten the vital liquid of Maracaibo and the surrounding towns, leading to displacement of farmers Wayuu located in new areas of coal concessions, as well as it did from the outset precisely the area about 17 years ago Guasare . Only Caño Seco Coal Company intends to use millions of gallons of water from rivers Socuy Maché Cachirí and Cano, as recorded in the Ministry of Environment, and to exploit the coal will be necessary to divert rivers, to discover and blow up the mantle emerging coal beneath these waters.
This information was gathered during a visit by the National Front for the Defense of Water and Life, made Friday February 25, 2005, the cities of Matera and the New Paso, where they were Tech Sgt (R) Ramon Carrero, Prof (Light) George Hines, Prof. (Light) Hector Arciniegas, and Max Pugh, a journalist with the BBC in London, who met with many farmers Wayuu the above communities about 10 miles from the coal mine "Paso Diablo" in the vicinity of the recent environmental disaster.
Our final comments you want to call this situation the Bolivarian government thinking about the proposal to raise production in the Sierra de Perija. The exploitation of coal deposits of Cachirí, from where the Guasare Rios, Socuy and Cachirí, which flow to Manuelote Tule reservoirs and threaten the vital liquid of Maracaibo and the surrounding towns, leading to displacement of farmers Wayuu located in new areas of coal concessions, as well as it did from the outset precisely the area about 17 years ago Guasare . Only Caño Seco Coal Company intends to use millions of gallons of water from rivers Socuy Maché Cachirí and Cano, as recorded in the Ministry of Environment, and to exploit the coal will be necessary to divert rivers, to discover and blow up the mantle emerging coal beneath these waters.
(*) Both RAG Carbozulia Anglo American partners have a known record of problems which have developed mining projects, such as the disaster of miners killed and injured in the Willow Creek mine (July 2000) by RAG American (Helper, Utah) that led to the closure of the mine. In South Africa, Anglo-American was one of the pillars of the apartheid, and faced massive labor disputes in the mines for 70 and 80. Southern Peru, the Anglo press to increase copper production by dint of risk Quellaveco depletion of aquifers is very dry region of Peru, alarming especially in rural farming community. Anglo, in turn, provides new jobs.
Statements: Jorge Hinestroza, Arciniegas Hector and Ramon Carrero, by the National Front for the Defense of Water and Life. Address Calle Carabobo, No. 7-14, Maracaibo. VENEZUELA.
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Thursday, February 24, 2005
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Barí respond to the aggression of transnational Transnational coal
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URGENT CALL FOR SOLIDARITY
Barí Communities respond to the aggression of invading its transnational terrtorio
By: ANPA / news Village
By: ANPA / news Village
Posted on Wednesday, 02/23/2005 11:01 pm
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Barí indigenous communities have dismantled the facilities of the transnational Carbones de Perija, which invaded its territory two days , covered in some trade-offs the Ministry of Energy and Mines granted to these individuals in ancestral territory Bari, last year. Bari
Warriors in their communities mandate partially damaged machinery and retaining a gang member invasive dirtectivo pending supensión agree on a measure of these invasions and an agreement to respect their territory.
The National Army moves into the conflict zone in the afternoon, located in a wooded area difficult to access in the south of the Perijá.
We call on the authorities to hold an attitude of balance into consideration when facing the country and in consideration of the prevalence contitucional the rights of indigenous communities.
The Bari people has been one of the most heroic of indigenous resistance in our continent, it is appalling that the most recent and final chapter of outrages is written at this time.
For over 20 years, these communities play their survival in the coal mine plan around the foothills of the Sierra de Perija last land of the nation Bari, is a long struggle of 500 years where the Bari have been able to sustain the spirit of rebellion against the invaders of all ilk. The English, ranchers, oil and now the transnational corporations from the coal.
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Barí indigenous communities have dismantled the facilities of the transnational Carbones de Perija, which invaded its territory two days , covered in some trade-offs the Ministry of Energy and Mines granted to these individuals in ancestral territory Bari, last year. Bari
Warriors in their communities mandate partially damaged machinery and retaining a gang member invasive dirtectivo pending supensión agree on a measure of these invasions and an agreement to respect their territory.
The National Army moves into the conflict zone in the afternoon, located in a wooded area difficult to access in the south of the Perijá.
We call on the authorities to hold an attitude of balance into consideration when facing the country and in consideration of the prevalence contitucional the rights of indigenous communities.
The Bari people has been one of the most heroic of indigenous resistance in our continent, it is appalling that the most recent and final chapter of outrages is written at this time.
For over 20 years, these communities play their survival in the coal mine plan around the foothills of the Sierra de Perija last land of the nation Bari, is a long struggle of 500 years where the Bari have been able to sustain the spirit of rebellion against the invaders of all ilk. The English, ranchers, oil and now the transnational corporations from the coal.
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invades invading Indian territory Barí
communities are preparing to deport
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By: ANPA / news Village
Published Wednesday, 2/23/2005 11:28 a.m.
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Sunday 20 February, the coal company, Carbones de Perija, transnational Chilean capital, decided to enter with heavy machinery, in Indian territory Bari, in the Sierra de Perija, in the vicinity of the indigenous community of Boksi BARI, located in the southernmost foothills of the mountain to start the scanning process into 2 lots of concessions granted last year by the Venezuelan state in Official Gazette No. 37965 of July 22, 2004. These lots were designated as Guaracuya I and II, covering 12,069 hectares, and are granted under the corporate responsibility and Alvaro Quiroga María Victoria Güell, both Chilean citizens. Yet know the shareholding structure of coals Perijá. The Barí For decades claim territory formally Perijá saw such request based on a self-demarcation process covered by the new law on demarcation of indigenous terrtorios and the Bolivarian Constitution has been formally renewed by the representatives of these communities before the committee demarcation. The People Bari has held a historic fight for these territories, the last that will remain after the wars against the English Resistance, farmers and transnational oil companies and opposed by more than twenty years coal mining on their land. Paradoxically, after the adoption of the new constitutional order terrtorialidad widely protecting indigenous peoples have been granted these new concessions were renewed expectations of exploitation of this mineral in the Sierra de Perija. Warriors Bachichita communities, Karañakaek, Saimadoye, Bocksi, among others, are moving from yesterday to demand the immediate withdrawal of the invaders of their land. And demand that the central government to intervene on behalf of their rights, not the interests of the transnational unconstitutional. This grant is part of a chain of coal exploitation Concessions covering the whole of the Sierra piuedemonte Perijá, from Rio de Oro to the mountains of the peninsula Oca Guajira, just above the major river basins and water reservoirs of the western basin of Lake Maracaibo. This is an old plan inherited from the 4th republic, towards a notion of development which has the preservation of biodiversity, water resources, indigenous rights, away from any notion of sovereignty in the current geopolitical of the Andean subregion and that removes any structural possibility of doing justice to the humble masses of this region. Several social organizations, indigenous and environmental organizations, argues the unconstitutionality of the plan, which inexplicably seems to have risen over the past four years.
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Sunday 20 February, the coal company, Carbones de Perija, transnational Chilean capital, decided to enter with heavy machinery, in Indian territory Bari, in the Sierra de Perija, in the vicinity of the indigenous community of Boksi BARI, located in the southernmost foothills of the mountain to start the scanning process into 2 lots of concessions granted last year by the Venezuelan state in Official Gazette No. 37965 of July 22, 2004. These lots were designated as Guaracuya I and II, covering 12,069 hectares, and are granted under the corporate responsibility and Alvaro Quiroga María Victoria Güell, both Chilean citizens. Yet know the shareholding structure of coals Perijá. The Barí For decades claim territory formally Perijá saw such request based on a self-demarcation process covered by the new law on demarcation of indigenous terrtorios and the Bolivarian Constitution has been formally renewed by the representatives of these communities before the committee demarcation. The People Bari has held a historic fight for these territories, the last that will remain after the wars against the English Resistance, farmers and transnational oil companies and opposed by more than twenty years coal mining on their land. Paradoxically, after the adoption of the new constitutional order terrtorialidad widely protecting indigenous peoples have been granted these new concessions were renewed expectations of exploitation of this mineral in the Sierra de Perija. Warriors Bachichita communities, Karañakaek, Saimadoye, Bocksi, among others, are moving from yesterday to demand the immediate withdrawal of the invaders of their land. And demand that the central government to intervene on behalf of their rights, not the interests of the transnational unconstitutional. This grant is part of a chain of coal exploitation Concessions covering the whole of the Sierra piuedemonte Perijá, from Rio de Oro to the mountains of the peninsula Oca Guajira, just above the major river basins and water reservoirs of the western basin of Lake Maracaibo. This is an old plan inherited from the 4th republic, towards a notion of development which has the preservation of biodiversity, water resources, indigenous rights, away from any notion of sovereignty in the current geopolitical of the Andean subregion and that removes any structural possibility of doing justice to the humble masses of this region. Several social organizations, indigenous and environmental organizations, argues the unconstitutionality of the plan, which inexplicably seems to have risen over the past four years.
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
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Wednesday, February 16, 2005
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A Cachirí! (*)
Need information to organize a campaign for the Sierra de Perija? Visit: http://www.enlacesporelagua.blogspot.com and
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This Saturday 19 to 6:30 in the morning, we will be in the waiting room of the Passenger Terminal Maracaibo trip participants Cachirí area. We will visit the place of new coal concessions that threaten watersheds watersheds inhabited by the Wayuu communities and come into the reservoirs that feed the Maracaibo and other poblaciones.Se maintains the original purpose of direct contact and committed to the rivers, forests, and loved living there and fight for Water and Life. The meeting with Angela Gonzalez, Wayuu leader in the area seems unlikely, due to prior commitments acquired in the struggle. Although the proposed meeting with indigenous leaders known is very important, on the other hand, is very valuable to take the presence and direct contact through one's senses in the Sierra de Perija threatened by coal in the search for an authentic experience personal commitment to our source of life.
Jorge Hinestroza-Communications Officer
Jorge Hinestroza-Communications Officer
Members of the Front in other regions of Venezuela: J. Hines to call tel. 0261-7364395, 9 pm to 11 pm.
Recommendations and suggestions for the trip
Prepare for hike likely 3 or 4 hours.
Bring: Comfortable clothes
non-slip shoes or tires (grip-pattern). Morral
mosquito repellent. Chinchorro
or tent / sleeping bag. Sunscreen
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Chambers (photo or video). Drinking water or moisturizer
(type "Gatorade") Edible
energy (chocolate, caramel)
Fiber-rich foods, cereals, peanuts, granola.
Spaghetti, Salt, arepas, rice, tuna.
-------------------------------------- (*) of meetings 12 and February 15 of the National Front for the Defense of Water and Life - Core Maracaibo.
Point: Journey to Cachirí.
Assistants: Elio
Rainy Beth Rios Torres Ingrid
Heberto Prieto Olga Pérez Escalante
Mahuanpi
Fuenmayor Keyla Indira Arrieta
Gonzalezç
Katty Gonzalez Sandra Arciniegas
Fred Burkey Bianellys Romero Jose Luis Davida
Nicanor Cifuentes Francisco Inciarte
Gladys Arciniegas Hector Suarez Jorge Hinestroza
Castilian
Elaini Ana Flores
Yamelis florian
Inciarte
Mary Patricia Maria E. Gonzalez
Yesica
Bracho Briceño León
Sirowsby
Jose Luis Davila
Virginia Rubio Lissette Briceño Nuñez Adriana
Angely Garcia
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Sunday, February 13, 2005
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A Cachirí on Saturday February 19 ... and the street in Maracaibo on Thursday February 24! Lara
The reunion on Saturday February 12, 2005.
On the morning of Saturday February 12, 2005, Youth Day, we developed a large and vigorous working meeting where decisions were agreed to be specified in street demonstrations, as of Thursday February 24 at 10 am in front of the coal and GreenFuels Caño Seco. It was also agreed to attend a meeting Saturday February 19 with the Wayuu communities in the area of \u200b\u200bthe pipe Maché, Cachirí River tributary, where to stay, as long as the likely conditions of wet weather that has been presented allow this trip without the risk of flooding. Are currently being hashed out details contact Angela Gonzalez and other community leaders with whom we will meet along one of the rivers that seek to destroy its coal business. Also reaffirmed the decision to comply with the Walk to Caracas and march to Miraflores, March 31, 2005 .
materialize, including a proposal for formalization of an active core of the Front in the Bolivarian University of Venezuela, Maracaibo headquarters, where a large number of teachers and students have created many original activities of this organization, and have been developing activities of the Environmental Management Program and Agroecology in the indigenous communities of the Sierra de Perija.
At this meeting there were reports of activities conducted in the southern Sierra and Toa Island, where there is no basis to create nuclei of the Front. Francisco spoke of meetings held in communities in Toromo Yucpa, Ayapaina, flute and Meseta de Kunan, in addition to Machiques. Toa Island, Sandra informed us of meetings with Nato, Mission Ribas Pipes and people who hope for an early activity information about the problem of coal.
Jose Luis Davila, Merida, reported on the initiatives that can be made to create the Front Merida in the state.
Jorge Hinestroza spoke of the planned activities with people of the Community Front Parish Bolivarian Olegario Villalobos, who on Sunday 13 have a sport and our face is closer to support and speak on the issue of coal.
was agreed that this Tuesday 16 at 7 pm. will meet in the front seat of the committees formed for operational purposes and will be discussed details of upcoming protests, such as banners, flyers, brochures, radio promotion, organization of participants in the focus groups, jugglers, stilt group , Etc. with responsible for each task, as well as travel information to Cachirí on Saturday 19 February, details will be posted here, along with a National Invitational. 
The reunion on Saturday February 12, 2005.
On the morning of Saturday February 12, 2005, Youth Day, we developed a large and vigorous working meeting where decisions were agreed to be specified in street demonstrations, as of Thursday February 24 at 10 am in front of the coal and GreenFuels Caño Seco. It was also agreed to attend a meeting Saturday February 19 with the Wayuu communities in the area of \u200b\u200bthe pipe Maché, Cachirí River tributary, where to stay, as long as the likely conditions of wet weather that has been presented allow this trip without the risk of flooding. Are currently being hashed out details contact Angela Gonzalez and other community leaders with whom we will meet along one of the rivers that seek to destroy its coal business. Also reaffirmed the decision to comply with the Walk to Caracas and march to Miraflores, March 31, 2005 .
On the other hand, met the inclusion Project group's official H 2 O students from the Professional Practice of the School of Social Work, who will support the activities of the National Front for the Defense of Water and Life. This contingent of social workers shared responsibility between the working committees Front Communications, Resource Mobilization and Organization ", and work for Water and Life in the parish communities Olegario Villalobos along with the Community Front Bolivar Bolivarian Dream . In this parish will develop activities in defense of Perija Lasiter, Aboriginal communities that inhabit and quesurten aquifer water to the city of Maracaibo, threatened by coal mining. Also set up a hub of activity at the Faculty of Juridical and Political Sciences, where he published a card, and hold meetings and talks. Nicanor
materialize, including a proposal for formalization of an active core of the Front in the Bolivarian University of Venezuela, Maracaibo headquarters, where a large number of teachers and students have created many original activities of this organization, and have been developing activities of the Environmental Management Program and Agroecology in the indigenous communities of the Sierra de Perija.
At this meeting there were reports of activities conducted in the southern Sierra and Toa Island, where there is no basis to create nuclei of the Front. Francisco spoke of meetings held in communities in Toromo Yucpa, Ayapaina, flute and Meseta de Kunan, in addition to Machiques. Toa Island, Sandra informed us of meetings with Nato, Mission Ribas Pipes and people who hope for an early activity information about the problem of coal.
Jose Luis Davila, Merida, reported on the initiatives that can be made to create the Front Merida in the state.
Jorge Hinestroza spoke of the planned activities with people of the Community Front Parish Bolivarian Olegario Villalobos, who on Sunday 13 have a sport and our face is closer to support and speak on the issue of coal.
was agreed that this Tuesday 16 at 7 pm. will meet in the front seat of the committees formed for operational purposes and will be discussed details of upcoming protests, such as banners, flyers, brochures, radio promotion, organization of participants in the focus groups, jugglers, stilt group , Etc. with responsible for each task, as well as travel information to Cachirí on Saturday 19 February, details will be posted here, along with a National Invitational.
This is only a summary, because the meeting was very large and dynamic with lots of participation, proposals and details. In this review emphasized the more immediate plans.
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Thursday, February 10, 2005
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regional hub created in the National Front for the Defense of Water and Life
Attendees at the meeting in Barquisimeto
Saturday 5 February 2005 where he set the new core of the Front.
The Core will focus immediately on the organization of the Walk Water and Life, which will depart from Maracaibo to Caracas in next time. Also, on March 31 will be an indigenous march to Miraflores popular support for talks with President Chavez.
With the support of several popular groups, was created in Barquisimeto a regional hub of the National Front for the Defense of Water and Life. People and awareness organizations, schools of thought Yacambu, Cabudare militants with the support of the Movement Around the Conuco (Trujillo) and CRAM (Maracay), after sharing information related to the threat of coal mining in the Sierra de Perija promoted by the state and transnational corporations, decided to promote regional activities of the front. This core has, among other members drive, Ana Mendez, Maria Loyo, Jose Luis Velazquez, Jose Antonio Leal, Pablo Hernandez and Noel Alexander Leon.
An explanation of the plans and CORPOZULIA coal companies, and how these fatal mining ventures bring increased accdentabilidad, disease and premature death of people, the condemnation of agriculture, the forced displacement of communities indigenous and the collapse of the local hydrological cycle that carries water to the population of Maracaibo, was part of the exhibition by Professor George Hines, Coordinator Communicational National Front for Water and Life in Maracaibo.
Hines, who teaches the departments of Environmental Ethics and Ecological Problems at the University of Zulia, also referred to the situation of the greenhouse effect and global climate chaos caused by the use of fossil fuels like coal and oil. He said that coal production is being increasingly discarded in developed countries of the European Union due to its high polluting power, and oil is to replace natural gas, a little less polluting than coal, while Venezuela, which also signed the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse arises triple extraction coal with the ecological and social consequences that it brings in the Sierra de Perija, being especially concerned that destroyed the main water sources that supply the aqueduct of Maracaibo, and to top it is intended to generate electricity with coal, which increases pollution environment. Said the unfortunate warnings CORPOZULIA President Martínez Mendoza General in contempt of the Kyoto Protocol and environmentalism as a sign of cynicism developed, more in line with neoliberalism, for which global climate disorders deserve no concern whatsoever as long as the business forward . This core will
soon as the organization of the Walk Water and Life, which will depart from Maracaibo to Caracas in next time. This walk was an idea that emerged simultaneously in Maracaibo and Barquisimeto, and now has a lot of volunteers and support from various groups of cities, towns and villages located in the path towards the capital.
Along with this, by next March 31 will be an indigenous march to Miraflores popular support for talks with President Chavez and give the request of the communities of the Sierra de Perija asking him to repeal the new concessions given to extract coal river basin Socuy Cachirí, and male. This march will culminate in a major cultural event music with projected images of the natural wealth of the Sierra de Perija, as well as Aboriginal communities opposed to coal mining on their ancestral lands. This activity will be provided by popular musical groups and artists from the capital and the interior, committed to the process of struggles of the people and environmentalists.
Thursday, February 3, 2005
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begin in Light Conference on alert and reflection for Water and Life
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Days begin in warning light and reflection for Water and Life-
Philosophy School took the lead.
Yesterday, Wednesday 2 February, the Council met at the School of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities at the University of Zulia (VENEZUELA), and after considering the issue proceeds over the Sierra de Perija from imminent development of expansive plans to extract Carbozulia CORPOZULIA-increasing volumes of coal from that area to reach the figure of 36 million tonnes a year, decided to take the initiative to start the first academic period (March) this year with a set warning activities and reflection on this troubling situation, days that should lead to a ruling of the university community this option on this imminent danger.
School Directors took this decision after listening to a committee of the National Front for Water and Life, made by Professors George Hines, Ana Maria Arciniegas Castilian and Hector, who made a statement of reasons and motivations that lead the need for the university community and country at large aware of the danger that extract coal basins of the rivers that supply the aqueduct of Maracaibo, along with the threat of mining pollution, biodiversity loss and impaired health and displacement of aboriginal peoples, miners, and residents generally in the region.
Ineida Professor Machado, Director of the School of Philosophy and researcher in the field of bioethics, said the commitment of the institution in the first line of defense and plural aware of the balance of ecosystems that sustain life on the planet especially in our region, and indicated that immediately devoted themselves to in March, the start of the new academic period 2005 to conduct a conference warning about the inconvenience of coal mining in the Sierra de Perija. An ad hoc committee on the scientific advice available to the National Front for the Defense of Water and Life will program design and implementation activities, which will be released as soon.
Communications Commission National Front for the Defense of Water and Life - Core Maracaibo. 
Press Newsletter for Water and Life
Maracaibo, February 3, 2005
Maracaibo, February 3, 2005
. Days begin in warning light and reflection for Water and Life-
Philosophy School took the lead.
Yesterday, Wednesday 2 February, the Council met at the School of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities at the University of Zulia (VENEZUELA), and after considering the issue proceeds over the Sierra de Perija from imminent development of expansive plans to extract Carbozulia CORPOZULIA-increasing volumes of coal from that area to reach the figure of 36 million tonnes a year, decided to take the initiative to start the first academic period (March) this year with a set warning activities and reflection on this troubling situation, days that should lead to a ruling of the university community this option on this imminent danger.
School Directors took this decision after listening to a committee of the National Front for Water and Life, made by Professors George Hines, Ana Maria Arciniegas Castilian and Hector, who made a statement of reasons and motivations that lead the need for the university community and country at large aware of the danger that extract coal basins of the rivers that supply the aqueduct of Maracaibo, along with the threat of mining pollution, biodiversity loss and impaired health and displacement of aboriginal peoples, miners, and residents generally in the region.
Ineida Professor Machado, Director of the School of Philosophy and researcher in the field of bioethics, said the commitment of the institution in the first line of defense and plural aware of the balance of ecosystems that sustain life on the planet especially in our region, and indicated that immediately devoted themselves to in March, the start of the new academic period 2005 to conduct a conference warning about the inconvenience of coal mining in the Sierra de Perija. An ad hoc committee on the scientific advice available to the National Front for the Defense of Water and Life will program design and implementation activities, which will be released as soon.
Communications Commission National Front for the Defense of Water and Life - Core Maracaibo.
Tuesday, February 1, 2005
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Published in the newspaper El Mundo de Caracas (1 st February 2005)
6 / The World / Tuesday / Caracas, February 1, 2005
Carbon water leaves Zulia
repeal concessions to defend this ecological reserve Zulians preparing a march to Miraflores on 31 March.
"carbonizing" the environment "
model coal mining begins northwest of Zulia state through Corpozulia / Carbozulia, together with multinationals RAG Coal International Coal, Anglo-American Coal, which purchase the shares at the Shell "(Carbones del Guasare, SA] and Inter-American Coal (Carbones de La Guajira, SA) and now threaten to extend beyond the foothills of the Sierra de Perija.
First was the municipality Mara with the Paso Diablo mine in 1987 (joint venture Carbones del Guasare, SA) and thereafter in Páez municipality with North Mine in 1994 (joint venture Carbozulia Carbones de la Guajira, SA).
Today, coal mining threat of surface water and groundwater in the basin of the rivers Guasare Cachirí Socuy and through new mines to be exploited by Carbones del Guasare, SA (18.5 MMT / a), Carbones La Guajira, SA (4MMt / a), Coal Caño Seco, CA (2 Mmt / a) and Carbones del Socuy, CA (2MMt / a).
Coal Basin Socuy be transported through a 8.5-km railway to a port to be built in Pararú, Wayuu indigenous settlement, thus affecting the whole of La Guajira, also coal basins of the rivers and Cachirí Guasare be transported in tractor trailers to Carbonero Terminal Island San Bernardo, the first module of Puerto America.
In this same area, Corpozulia available to lease new coal mines mining companies MAICCA, CA (Tomen, Transmara Coal and Excel) and KTK Mining of Venezuela, CA, and thus is expected to leverage the medium term approximately 30 million tons of coal a year, in the Guajira subregion, excluding individuals from the Cerrejón mine Colombia, as expressed in the General Management Plan of Puerto America and the study Terms of Reference for Terminal Carbonero the Island of San Bernardo.
6 / The World / Tuesday / Caracas, February 1, 2005
Carbon water leaves Zulia
Although it does not burn, coal could trigger heavy fighting in the Sierra de Perija, where Indians and environmentalists are preparing to prevent the exploitation of new mines. Think Chavez can only repeal the concessions and for this march to Miraflores on 31 March.
Danisbel Gomez Morillo
Although in its early days in office, President Hugo Chávez promised the largest community barium at all costs avoid the irrational exploitation of resources in La Guajira and the Sierra Perija (Zulia state), about 350 indigenous families in the area are prepared to defend, at all costs-the land they occupy and the rivers that surround them, because there the state (together with transnational companies) is planning to extract, to from October This year, 24 million tons of coal.
Although in its early days in office, President Hugo Chávez promised the largest community barium at all costs avoid the irrational exploitation of resources in La Guajira and the Sierra Perija (Zulia state), about 350 indigenous families in the area are prepared to defend, at all costs-the land they occupy and the rivers that surround them, because there the state (together with transnational companies) is planning to extract, to from October This year, 24 million tons of coal.
Following the logic of economic "development" of the region, the business would not be bad, except that the exploitation of coal, by the two companies operating for years in the Sierra, has contaminated rivers and Socuy Guasare and forced the inhabitants of the municipalities Páez and Mara to take waste water from this mineral.
The new concessions have been granted increase the ecological damage, says Lusby Portillo, a professor at the University of Zulia (LUZ) who warns that they leave no water to Maracaibo, Miranda, La Concepcion, La Paz and El Moján, since the two dams that supply these municipalities, Tule and Manuelote be contaminated.
"That's too much exploitation for a fragile soils in the foothills of the Sierra de Perija, they are mountains. If you open these mines is very likely we will run out of water in Maracaibo, because the state gives us no guarantee of anything through the Ministry of Environment and also the impact that generated the Norte and Paso Diablo Mine in the La Guajira has reduced the water, "says Portillo, who has spent years en la lucha ambiental e indigenista en la zona.
Además de maximizar los efectos contaminantes que ya ha dejado la extracción de carbón en el Zulia, el experto hace énfasis en lo contradictorio que resulta -y aún más en este Gobierno que se dice protector del ambiente- el discurso de la explotación de carbón en la actualidad, cuando las termoeléctricas europeas están cerrando.
“Las trasnacionales y Corpozulia vienen impulsando la creación de carboeléctricas en este estado. Hay una en Tía Juana (Costa Oriental del Lago), otras en El Tablazo, en Mara y en Táchira. Venezuela enters a process and strengthens it just as Europe is emerging. In Germany, for example, are no more than 10 000 workers in coal mines, in this country and England are closing mines and power plants to meet the Kyoto Protocol that demands to lower the rate of the gases generated by industrialization coal plants or steel. Thus, while South America they close those plants open them, and in particular, boosted by this Government. There is no justification to 200 years of oil we are using coal, "said Portillo.
die
By Angela Sierra González, activist wayúu and member of the community radio Nikiza Cachirí-Indian language that means Shouts Cachiríexpresó their fear of the possible expropriation of the land they occupy both his brothers as those of Bari and Yukpa ethnicities.
By Angela Sierra González, activist wayúu and member of the community radio Nikiza Cachirí-Indian language that means Shouts Cachiríexpresó their fear of the possible expropriation of the land they occupy both his brothers as those of Bari and Yukpa ethnicities.
"For coal companies will make us leave our places, our lands are productive, we have livestock and agriculture, do not produce much but we are to sustain ourselves, to educate our children and to stay. You can not expropriate us have not even told where we relocated but not us out because the problem is water pollution, environment, nature. "González, who has moved to defend the administration of President Chavez, do not hesitate to point out that will face the National Guard or Army, and even take out the same mandatariopara prevent more carbon from the Sierra. "I ask God, who is the only power that put man on earth to cultivate and not to destroy it to protect us What do you think now my President Chavez? both saying that we were as important to him. He knows that the indigenous poor muybien give support, he has talked about our rights, but do not understand why he wants to expropriate their hermanos.Con that we are selling. "
Dec. 11 meeting was held with the Indians to persuade them to accept the exploitation of coal in the area but failed to agree. "We are not ambitious, we will not buy, will not give our land. All Wayuu agree that we will not let anyone in, if it is to fight, fight, if it is to die, we die, there will be bloodshed in our land, our rivers and our Sierra if we want to get over there ".
repeal concessions to defend this ecological reserve Zulians preparing a march to Miraflores on 31 March.
This is not the first mobilization they do, they have gone four times to Corpozulia headquarters in Maracaibo, demanding that they stop mining projects, but nothing has happened.
also have notified the Executive and have established some contacts with the Ministry of Environment, and so far the only thing visible is that the coal moving to consolidate in the area.
"We want President Chavez will listen, listen to the other version because he has is the economistic has no ecological vision of bioregion, center on water, biodiversity.
They justify the holding ground that here is a low population density but it is an important ecological reserve. It is good that the President hears the words of the indigenous and environmentalists who have been excluded from this revolution, because this government has built an indigenous or environmental policy, "says Lusby Portillo.
But environmentalists and indigenous people not only go to explain their arguments Chavez also seek action strong as the revocation of the permits were granted to these companies. "We will seek the repeal of coal concessions in La Guajira and Perija, in the land of the Bari, the Wayuu, for a public good, a social good.
The President can justify to the State and to the nation that the water of Zulia and the lands of indigenous people will revoke all those concessions, leaving only the mines already in operation. Will have to compensate these companies. This obviously can not do a minister or a deputy, you have to do it. "
"carbonizing" the environment "
model coal mining begins northwest of Zulia state through Corpozulia / Carbozulia, together with multinationals RAG Coal International Coal, Anglo-American Coal, which purchase the shares at the Shell "(Carbones del Guasare, SA] and Inter-American Coal (Carbones de La Guajira, SA) and now threaten to extend beyond the foothills of the Sierra de Perija.
First was the municipality Mara with the Paso Diablo mine in 1987 (joint venture Carbones del Guasare, SA) and thereafter in Páez municipality with North Mine in 1994 (joint venture Carbozulia Carbones de la Guajira, SA).
Today, coal mining threat of surface water and groundwater in the basin of the rivers Guasare Cachirí Socuy and through new mines to be exploited by Carbones del Guasare, SA (18.5 MMT / a), Carbones La Guajira, SA (4MMt / a), Coal Caño Seco, CA (2 Mmt / a) and Carbones del Socuy, CA (2MMt / a).
Coal Basin Socuy be transported through a 8.5-km railway to a port to be built in Pararú, Wayuu indigenous settlement, thus affecting the whole of La Guajira, also coal basins of the rivers and Cachirí Guasare be transported in tractor trailers to Carbonero Terminal Island San Bernardo, the first module of Puerto America.
In this same area, Corpozulia available to lease new coal mines mining companies MAICCA, CA (Tomen, Transmara Coal and Excel) and KTK Mining of Venezuela, CA, and thus is expected to leverage the medium term approximately 30 million tons of coal a year, in the Guajira subregion, excluding individuals from the Cerrejón mine Colombia, as expressed in the General Management Plan of Puerto America and the study Terms of Reference for Terminal Carbonero the Island of San Bernardo.
Source: Homo et Natura, ANPA and Mov. April 13.
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