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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