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ARGENTINA: THE POLLUTION CAUSED THE OPEN PIT MINING


"Impure Gold" film
Pino Solanas

denouncing the mining


The director and deputy-elect put the magnifying glass over one of the activities more rejection wake up in the Andean provinces. The film is part of the documentary "Earth revolt."



03.09.2009
Critical Journal









Solanas was born in 1936 and filmed 12 movies. Last year he presented "The Next Station", which shows the privatization of the railways in the 90's.
(Télam)

elected Deputy Project South, Fernando "Pino" Solanas, Thursday presented the documentary "Golden Tainted" in which he denounced "the looting of resources" that takes place at the mining sites of La Rioja, Tucumán, San Juan, Catamarca and Salta, operated by foreign companies that use more " 4,000 tons of cyanide a year. "
The film, which opens officially next Thursday, September 10, shows the movement of engineers, teachers, landholders, indigenous residents and environmentalists. Everyone is speaking against the Canadian mining company Barrick Gold
, which plans to launch the largest field in Argentina:

Pascua Lama.
The facility, which will begin construction this month, will be under the purview of Argentina and Chile. In fact, it is considered the world's first binational mine. Draw large reserves of gold and silver and will require an initial investment of 3 billion dollars.

"open pit mining with cyanide contaminated water. And many glasses of water with metal ends up generating serious diseases and abortions," said Solana during a news conference after the presentation of the film, which also received contributions of the Venezuelan Amazon
Films
. Installation of Pascua Lama is opposed by environmentalists and has attracted a lot of criticism by the mysterious tax treatment that the Argentine and Chilean state was awarded to Canadian firm for access to exploitation of reserves. "This mining is not useful because it is devastating, but the mining lobby is very important in Argentina. Several governments are subsidizing the export of resources. There is widespread impunity," said the filmmaker, next December take over as national deputy. In his role as legislator, Solanas anticipated to promote a project to "ban open pit mining with cyanide, but found no change" without the active participation of citizens. "

"When I started to investigate contamination at the mine sites, I thought it was a gross error so that impunity was the handling. Thus, seven (of 23) provincial legislatures have banned the country's mining open air with toxic substances, "he said Solanas.

"impure gold is the first part of the production" Earth revolt ", to be completed with the movie" black gold ", which released between March and April 2010.
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