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agapov having issues with the locals

posted on Aug 16, 2011 05:40AM

Agricultural producers of the Ramona fear to be evacuated by PMG

Tuesday, 16 of August of 2011

The open-cast operation of the transnational Russian continues generating discord between the residents of the Pebble, that demand the presence of national authorities to solve the conflict.

Lisbeth Castro

The producers refuse to leave the earth that assure have cultivated several generations by more than 60 years

The conflict in the sector the Ramona of the Pebble, itches and it extends. To the reclamation of the miners the one of the agricultural producers is also added, that fear to be affected if the auriferous operation is authorized Incredible the 6 open-cast ones, on the part of the company Promotora Minera Guayana (PMG).

Stolen angel, agriculturist and miner, denounced that he has been intimidated like other producers of the zone, that they affirm to be there with his families for more than 60 years.

The man added that “exists several civil servants of diverse institutions and organisms of the State that are lending themselves so that they evacuate to us, create and are convinced that hidden interests behind these civil servants exist. Soon we will be taking tests to Miraflores so that they see what it is happening”.

Forceful refusal
Stolen it assured that since appeared the conflict and the refusal to allow the mining development, the company has taken food bags to them that they have rejected.

“Here in the Ramona we produce our foods. We are men and women who we have dignity and we deserve respect like artisan mining agricultural producers and”.

The residents of the zone demand that a commission of the presidency, vice-presidency and the ministries, corroborates that indeed many families artisan take to decades in that place of the municipality the Pebble working.

“We have come working with dignity without credits with our own effort and today this transnational company PMG to have million dollars tries to evacuate to us of the earth that my grandfathers harvested and my father also.

Now I besides the young do of animal, but in view that those that has come wish to favor to the company, we are going away to direct to the city of Caracas to give to tests of his componendas”.

Local support
On the other hand, the mayoress of the Pebble, Orlenia Scipio, pronounced in favor of the miners and producers and against the open-cast project. “She is my to have to be at any moment next to the working and producing town of foods and against the pretensions of transnational company PMG to evacuate them”.

She said the environmental lady who usually this type of projects more than benefits leave devastated areas and problems, something that want to avoid. “We do a call to Him to the minister of the Atmosphere, to the vice-president of the republic so that we do not allow that this evacuation takes shape”.

The municipal representative asked that the harassments of evacuation against the producers stop. “They have shown to me material audio-visual where some civil servants of organism and institutions are lending themselves to favor to the company with an supposed measurement of relocation. Now, why they do not relocate to this transnational company in another sector and leave the calm producers”.

Found interests

While the communities protest by the intention to operate open-cast the area of Incredible the 6 in the Ramona, workers of the transnational Russian and other sectors support the one that is respected the concession, to generate economic development local and the expansion of the auriferous production of plant PMG.

The mining project was shown the communities from the past year when Rusoro Mining announced that it had all the permissions to initiate the operation. Since then the tensions were generated and some communities have resisted, after protests of both parts not yet is an exit to the problem.

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