The next few articles are all taken from the AN website. The first is about the Cemex nationalization which looks to have begun surrounding an environmental issue date 1/30/08.
Restructuring the Committee on Environment
It appointed a commission to investigate the company's activities CMEX, Mexican Cement, located in Anzoategui state, which is made up of deputies Carlos Medina, Porfirio Hernandez and Luis Sanchez, as well as the deputy Arelis Centeno, a member of the Parliamentary Bloc Anzoategui state.
Caracas: 30-01-2008
The Commission on the Environment AN agreed to an internal restructuring, and reduce from five to three subcommittees that are part of the body, in order to make it more operational. Thus is the Subcommittee on reordering of the Territory, the Subcommittee on National Parks and Open and the Control and Monitoring Subcommittee.
So what gave the deputy Earle Herrera (Anzoategui), chairman of this committee, who assured that next week will be announced the names of parliamentarians that will shape. "We are looking for more effective and operational".
As part of the restructuring was also agreed the creation of a Technical Department, which brings together the staff of advisors, researchers and technicians, and one Secretariat, which will try to make more operational the administrative area, both will be supervised by the vice president of the Standing Committee, deputy Julio Garcia Jarpa (Tachira).
Alike, before renaming the commission, as saying the Environment is being done mention of the other two aspects: Natural Resources and spatial planning.
This does not depend on us - pointed out, but the decision lies in the hands of the Whole, as this would mean an amendment to the Rules of Procedure and Debates.
Investigations
It appointed a commission to investigate the company's activities CMEX, Mexican Cement, located in Anzoategui state, which is made up of deputies Carlos Medina, Porfirio Hernandez and Luis Sanchez, as well as the deputy Arelis Centeno, a member of the Parliamentary Bloc Anzoategui state.
It is a factory that allegedly is affecting the surrounding communities by emissions of polluting material, so the commission will move in the coming days a regional entity to come into contact with the affected communities.
It was also decided to officiate the president of Geographic Institute Simón Bolívar, Merlin Garcia, to request information about the current status of that body, which is of great strategic importance to the nation and which must preserve its functional autonomy.
It is the agency with jurisdiction in accordance with the provisions of the Organic Law on National Mapping and Cadastre, "is what we want to know everything related to a possible change of status, if you become a general direction of the Ministry of Environment or whether it will be unbundled into several agencies, "said Herrera.
Zenaida Da Costa / AN Press