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Santo Domingo.- The mining company Xstrata-Falcondo on Monday reiterated that nickel exploitation at Loma Miranda, central La Vega, is economically and environmentally feasible, with no risk of contaminating the region with heavy metals.
Its executives said their 20-year mining project is in a reserve with 19.6 million tons of minerals, of which 1.60% is nickel, noting that Xstrata’s plan to conclude extractions includes funds to reforest the mining area concurrently with operations.
They said reputable international firms and local technicians prepared the Environmental Impact Study, which in their view takes into account the area’s environmental characteristics.
In a press conference at its offices in Gazcue, the Xstrata executives said no evidence of chromium salt, a heavy metal, is present in their current operations in Bonao and La Vega, adding that it isn’t diluted by water as the Academy of Sciences has pointed out.
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Think that tributary is clean now?
Poisoned commons around the Tintaya Open Pit Copper Mine in Peru? Xstrata did that & denied it for >10yrs too. Now Peruvian Farmers rather die fighting it.
When the Loma Miranda commons are poisoned due to Nickel mining/processing, will you be able to import clean water, uncontaminated produce and livestock products from foreign markets?
Am sure Xstrata executives + shareholders will be fine. They don't live near Loma Miranda, they don't need a clean Rio Jaguey tributary to get clean healthy drinking water + produce.
It is your mothers and fathers, your lover, your wife and your children living near the Loma Miranda who need a healthy commons to get clean drinkin
I am getting tired of asking but......
Do you have any proof that this company has wantonly caused environmental damage?
There's a dumbass-segment deep in the DNA of your two neurons needing bleaching out of the genepool. Don't worry if they're destroyed during your swim, you'll be fine, parasites with only synapses already show more social responsibility than you.
You likely don't even know what a Xstrata corporate A-share is yet you blindingly genuflect before foreign interests seeking to leach your patrimony. Likely you're not even Dominican.
If instead you choose to stick around, don't be such a self-defeating dumbass, rather do some basic research. The Koondral Chromium mining poisonings of the Blyde River tributaries is well known across various NGOs and even corporate interests that look at it as a way to learn how to get away with even more as long as it increases profits.
Both it and the Tintaya Open Pit Copper Mines are even in documentaries.