The native forests of Chaco, which are among the hardest hit the country, could suffer another blow if the installation of a concrete plant to produce 360 \u200b\u200b000 tons of pig iron, in the town of Puerto Vilelas. Pig iron is the molten material in blast furnaces is obtained by reduction of iron ore and raw material used in obtaining steel. To achieve this, destroyed about 300 hectares of forest to supply charcoal to the two blast furnaces.
The Vetorial be responsible for it, a Brazilian steel company capital that has already been fined in the country to use coal produced in native bush and do not meet current standards. And in Bolivia could not operate because the government of Evo Morales did not authorize. Although announced in August began to operate, the company still must wait for authorization from the Bolivian government to move the plant that is installed in the town of Puerto Suarez.
are many voices that oppose this project that the governor Jorge Capitanich defined as "the kickoff to retrieve the town's industrial park, which will allow adding value to raw materials and formal employment generation and productive. "
Ramón Vargas, Foundation for Life meeting, warning that the area of \u200b\u200b140 hectares which would settle the industry is a flood zone, "There is a study in seriousness. Everything was improvised. This is an area of \u200b\u200bsevere restrictions by the floods that have. In addition, the public hearing to discuss the environmental impact study completed in batucadas and jeers to those who opposed us. "
Rolando Silva, coordinator of the Mandela Centre, is another who raised his voice against the arrival of the company for the consequences soc ial and ecological conditions can cause.
"will foster a program of environmental pillage that will generate more homeless in the region" says Silva. Thus began the last phase of the likely collapse of Chaco environment, a phenomenon that we should not wait too long, it is very likely to occur in the short term. Just be combined with the extraordinary consequences we demonstrated in our territory from climate change resulting from deforestation, the irrational management of natural resources and environment, "he concludes.
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