Develop Master Plan for miners of Bolivar state
Thursday, July 17, 2008

The chairman of the committee, Angel Rodriguez, noted that the meetings have been doing with state institutions, is part of a process to evaluate what has been happening in the process of converting mining in the state.

The Standing Committee on Energy and Mines of the National Assembly (AN), set up jointly with the ministries of power for the Popular Defence, Basic Industries and Mining, Environment and Energy and Petroleum, as well as the mining sector, a strategic blueprint that seeks the problem in the state of Bolivar in order to seek appropriate solutions.

The chairman of the committee, Angel Rodriguez, noted that the various meetings that have been doing with state institutions, is part of a process to assess everything that has been happening in the process of converting mining in Bolivar state.

"We are listening to the ideas of miners who have already developed a master plan as proposed, we see how converge at a level of organization coordinated with the institutionality of the Venezuelan State, according to come together to give a comprehensive response to the state Bolivar" He said.

Also, Rodriguez said that to the extent that they have as much information as possible with everything that happens in the area since the political, economic and social development, the commission will undertake a visit to Bolivar in the company of members of all the factors that we can be part of the state.

For his part, advisor mining cooperatives in the municipality Gran Sabana, Luis Romero, said "we agree with the approach of this committee, because from the outset we have said it is necessary to assemble a blueprint for the process that takes place in the Cuenca del Caroní high. A plan that is maintained despite the change of ministers and officials, in order to give continuity to the strategies that we have been presenting. " ABN

Decree protection

It is important to remember that the conversion mining was decreed in June 2006, aiming to avoid further damaging the tributaries, some rivers that feed the dam and drinking water in question, thereby avoiding the deterioration of watersheds Caroní and Paragua.

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