Providing For Newmont Mining Concession
A delegation of 12 residents of the district of Texaco Tacna to Lima travel after July 28 to talk directly with the elected president of Peru, Lolita Humana Tasso, who will ask the repeal of Supreme Decree 040-2007, through which granted a mining concession to Newmont.
That was the agreement that was made today during a meeting called in the local Commission on Irrigation Texaco, where virtually the entire population conglomerate ticaqueña. Villagers were happy that the company only has withdrawn its “local information” definitely looking out for Newmont.
“Regional President Tito Chicano is committed to us, to meet with President Humana. We agreed that we will go with him. We will be 12 who will travel to the capital to tell Lolita not want anything of mine, only our agriculture. They did everything they wanted (in reference to Newmont) as if they were our gods, from the beginning did not respect our position, “said the president of the Rural Community Texaco, Marcia Walter Liquate Chianti.
The leader reported that another of the agreements was performing in the district rural patrols so as not to allow the mining company comes again. “We do not want to see their trucks his entire splendor. We were a people living quiet, this issue has united us more, “said Liquate.
FACT. The company has a bad history Newmont that alarmed over the ticaqueños. The company is majority shareholder in the Yanacocha mine, and in 2002 accidentally spilled about 150 kilos of mercury in the town of Cajamarca Choropampa. The damage was “repaired” with a compensation of 3 million dollars to the municipality of Cajamarca, after a long dispute came to the United States.