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.
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