Opened water treatment plant in Las Claritas
Saturday, 20 June 2009

Funded by Crystallex is geared to the processing of sewage.

The village of Las Claritas, located south of Bolivar State in Sifontes municipality, adjacent to one of the largest gold reserves in Latin America, and paradoxically is a town where a shortage of basic services, jobs and stable attention of the regional government.

This scenario was introduced in 2002 the company Crystallex with the permission of the CVG to explore the area and conduct feasibility studies of mineral exploitation of gold.

Within the working conditions imposed by the transnational corporation is the Canadian duty to provide social benefits, either medical or job creation, all aimed at improving the quality of life for its residents.

Despite being a few of the benefits it has enjoyed the community, and the complaints they have submitted, on Wednesday inaugurated with fanfare a pumping station of sewage ", which collect the liquid waste of Ranchitos and carry a device which will be processed with chemicals to reduce the pollution produced by the constant flooding sewers.

Were present at the inaugural Robert Fung, chairman of the board, representatives of the Embassy of Canada, Luis Felipe Cotini, CEO of Crystallex International and Jhon Madero, president of the Bolivar Mine on behalf of the Governor, who also worked on site and some workers of the company.

In the symbolic inauguration of the plant, which was already in operation, Fung said that when the conventions began "the most important thing was to use people to improve their quality of life."

Likewise emphasized the importance of working together with local government and that "we have not built this site to go, our intention is to build the mine and stay."

The maintenance engineer of the mining company, Angel Brito, said that the investment was 900 thousand bolívares strong and wastewater processed by the plant from "the new sewer system" installed as previously indicated and that "crossing the street Las Claritas, Santo Domingo and Nuevas Claritas.

"This project has been developed and built by Venezuelan regional companies and cooperatives in the area," said Brito, emphasizing the creation of 50 jobs, in a population of over 3 thousand people.

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