"Unless the Ministry of Environment says they are creating too much damage and they must cease operations immediately or something of that nature."

There has been a few things of interest as of late as opposed to Ortega. Hitcher has actually spoken out about gold mining albeit I think he was inferring to "The Caura Plan" he did specify they did not want anything damaged and he also mentioned that they were planning on reversing the destruction. How do you reverse destruction in the rain forest coming from comments of the environmental minister? Yes with a major mining plan such as KRY's.

IMO Hitcher is on board with Chavez to do some major mining coming soon to a theatre near you :)

Also remember Ortega's comments when asked about the denial.

"Ortega said about the mining operations. ``If there is some type of
remediation, and I don't know what in the world that could be, they may
still get their permits.''