Foundation Ibera presented tomorrow at the local Court of Mercedes Corrientes an injunction against the rule which considers "tailor-made dam project Ayuí Grande."
The law relating to the diversion of the stream allows Ayuí to flood twenty thousand acres of nature reserve close to the Esteros del Ibera in order to facilitate irrigation of rice crops in a mega-enterprises Copra SA companies belonging to the group Clarin, which boosts his vice president, Jose Aranda and Adeco Agro, owned by Hungarian billionaire George Soros, which also joined Santa Clara and Yuquerí SA
"This law has the same defects as the decree signed former Governor Arturo Colombi before leaving," said Foundation President Ibera, Henry Lacour.
The environmentalist said the law, which received the Governor's momentum Ricardo Colombi and government legislators and allies, "does not meet the minimum budget established by the National Forest Act for the land." Lacour
again questioned again, "the attempt to appropriate public land by private companies. This is an absolute illegality," he said.
productive The consortium plans to create an artificial lake of eight thousand acres of native forests to irrigate about 20 hectares of crops that would be installed in that area. "This implies buried under the water 50 miles of coastline, forests, pastures and grasses that constitute the area's natural landscape and environmental sustainability are the Ibera wetlands," explained Lacour.
The court filing from environmentalists seeking to stop the bill, considering it a violation of the provisions of the Forest Act, consists of 400 folios and will be held tomorrow at the courthouse in the town of Corrientes de Mercedes.
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