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Argentina faces vote to loosen glacier protections in push for mining ...
The reform shifts glacier protection to provinces to attract mining investment, amid protests from 30 groups and concerns over water resource risks, officials said.
- On Thursday, Argentina's Senate will debate a bill that would let provinces set their own glacier protections, potentially shifting authority from national standards.
- As part of his investment push, the government says the reform aims to provide long-term certainty and aligns with RIGI, resolving legal ambiguities for mining companies.
- Environmental organisations warn the reform would weaken safeguards, with a specialist warning `It exposes entire communities to the uncertainty of a mining accident`.
- Some provincial leaders argue Argentina's constitution grants provinces ownership of natural resources, so they should decide which areas to protect, amid debate on glacier reform and Milei's coalition's uncertain voting prospects.
- Under the 2010 Glacier Law, glaciers in a national inventory are protected, and the wine industry warns any activity must guarantee strict environmental safeguards.
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They are protesters from Greenpeace. They also arrested a cameraman from the A24 channel. Activists jumped over the esplanade of the Legislative Palace and posted a poster against the government’s project.
In its penultimate extraordinary session, the Senate approved tonight a series of changes to the law of glaciers and the definition of this project is now in the hands of Deputies. At the time of the vote in general and in particular, the initiative in question received 41 accessions and 31 rejections -the neuquin Julieta Corroza abstained - with a text that divided several benches, except La Libertad Avanza, which commands Patricia Bullrich.
In the debate over the reform of the Glaciares Law that is taking place this Thursday in the Senate, Senator Chubutense Carlos Linares expressed a strong rejection of the initiative and questioned both the content and the way in which the modification is being promoted. “Again, between gallos and midnight. A crooked law is born again,” he launched when he spoke, in a direct criticism of the treatment of the project. “They are scratching the bott…
In the context of the discussion on the amendment of the Glaciares Act promoted by the National Government, the provinces discussed the issue within the framework of the Federal Council for the Environment (COFEMA). Among the negative votes, abstentions and absences, the initiative did not obtain the support of the agency. During the meeting, representatives of the Argentine provinces analyzed the proposal that the Executive intends to address t…
Actors, writers and intellectuals signed a petition to express their opposition to the reform promoted by the national government, considering that it puts at risk the country's main freshwater reserves. Faced with the treatment in the Senate of the changes that the National Government wants to introduce into the law of glaciers, artists, intellectuals and writers came out in defense of law 26,639, sanctioned in 2010.
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