Greenpeace claims CFK is ‘ill-advised’ regarding Malvinas environmental claims
The Argentine chapter of Greenpeace suggested President Cristina Fernandez, CFK, is ‘ill-advised’ when she claimed on Wednesday no environmental group has criticized what is “going on in Malvinas” in direct reference to oil exploration and fisheries in the Falklands.
“We felt obliged to reply to the statements for several reasons, first of all because there has been a statement from the national government, and particularly from the President, in support of conservation of the environment which is so absent in most policy considerations, and also recall that Greenpeace has long reported, beginning 1998, the ecological dangers of oil exploration as well as the illegal and over fishing in Malvinas” said Eugenia Testa, political director of the NGO.
“I love to see whales defended because they are beautiful, but also defend squid and the other species that are being plundered in our Malvinas”, said President Cristina Fernandez on resuming office after ending her medical leave on Wednesday.
Claiming sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands also “means the defence of our natural resources because they are plundering our oil and our fisheries”, insisted the Argentine president.
Testa recalled that since 1998 Greenpeace has been exposing the dangers of the expansion of oil companies into deep water exploration of fossil resources offshore Malvinas, and fisheries depredation since 2009, “so it seems strange the President didn’t’ have someone to advise her with the speech, because there are reiterated registered reports and claims on the issues, and demanding action from the government”.
Greenpeace Argentina also referred to the “worrisome silence from the Argentine government referred to the Famatina mine project”, where a Canadian company has a contract for an open pit gold mining project which “besides an environmental conflict is a serious social conflict”.
“We therefore would like the national government to announce a mediation effort in the conflict given the environmental impact that could arise from the mining project” pointed out Testa.
Since early January citizens groups from Famatina and other small villages in the province of La Rioja are camping along the path leading to the Famatina Hill thus impeding the passage of vehicles from the Osisko Mining Corporation.
“NO to open pit mining and protect our most valuable asset, water” read the banners, flags, T shirts and graffiti scribbled on rocks.
Famatina residents with support from ecologists argue that the project authorized by Governor Luis Beder Herrera will contaminate the environment and leave the town without drinking water. The provincial and national governments deny such possibilities.
“We are supporting the demands from the Famatina residents. The national and provincial governments must listen to residents and freeze the project because it is going to definitively alter their environment. To continue ignoring the conflict won’t make it disappear. It would be most important that the national government intercedes before provincial authorities because so far residents and peaceful protestors have only received provocations and continuous police harassment”, concluded Testa.
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The Argentine Fisheries opened their ilex season early, while squid were still in spawn just to spite the Falklands.
Argentine Greenpeace... so much for not being part of a “GLOBAL SOCIETY”
EXPLOITATION - or just plain stupid....
en.mercopress.com/2011/10/27/drilling-program-in-central-argentina-makes-three-oil-discoveries
EXPLOITATION
So is it only exploitation if the Falkland Islanders wish to take advantage of what is on offer...
Currently it is suny in the Falklands - exploitation of the sun which only shines from the a** of the Argentine Government....
You got the first bit right; “Ignorant, Argentina”
What do you say about opening the Illex fisheries early? Is exploitation of the fishery okay when it is really playing dirty tricks on the Falklands? The dirty tricks that your president said Argentina are being falsely accused of.
Why did your country land mine it's owns islands if that's what they are? I guess your answer or the answer from one of your co-losers will be that you had nothing to do with the junta and they were bad boys. Not like all of your morally outstanding leaders now.
You need a new hobby. This one will never bring you any satisfaction.
C´mon Greenpeace!
Many of your lads and lasses are “more than familiar” with that evil Leiv Eiriksson rig.......
Let's organize another climbing party!
I’m more than certain that the Argentinean authorities will be much more lenient (if not supportive) than the Danish/Greenlandic ones.
And, If you should get detained by the Brits, I’m positive that Islander1, Monty96, WestisBest, Isolde and the rest of the squatter bunch will take extra-good care of you…..
You better start training your intake-capacity of humongous amounts of cakes and tea :-)
Keep up the good work, Greenpeace.
You're a regular amongst your fellow co-losers on Mercopress. Perhaps you can explain the early Argentine Illex opening (in an attempt to hurt the Falklands fishery) vs. your president's comments that Argentina are not the ones playing dirty tricks and are in fact the victims.
You too should get a new hobby. This one will never bring you any satisfaction.
Argentina’s forests are among those that are disappearing. Today only 30% of the country’s original forests remain
www.argentinaindependent.com/socialissues/environment/beyond-the-amazon-deforestation-in-argentina/
Shame people, shame :)
I'm in the UK already.
What's your explanation for your president's claim that she is not playing dirty tricks while at the same time the Argentine Illex fishery has been opened early in an attempt to hurt the Falklands fishery?
This is either a dirty trick or the vandalism of the Illex stock or both.
What's your explanation? Is your president a hypocrit or a liar or both?
Also, what is she going to do with LAN Airlines now in light of her comments? Is she going to make herself a bigger hypocrit or allow the flight to continue? Maybe her intelligence (not her own intellegince) is not too bad. Maybe she realised that there is an alternative ready to go and that her own Argentina would be cut off from the islands if she stopped the fight.
You need to get a new hobby. This one won't work out for you.
You should be grateful, Herr Think, that l would not be the Commandant of any lnternment camp here for malvinistas.
@10 Kipling,
Your stupid army put them here.
lmagine laying a minefield with no map! lncompetent fools.
@12 The Falklands are British,
“ls your president a hypocrite, a liar or both?”---YES BOTH.
@14 Helber,
Told you before cute eyes,
You cannot “return” something to someone who has never owned it in the first place.
Argentina has NEVER owned the Falklands.
(and of course they DO NOT own them now).
Also, is your president still going to call LAN Airlines to stop its weekly flight to the Falklands? Is she such a hypocrit to do that?
No dirty tricks going on huh? I guess it's all relative and she means no dirty tricks by Argentine standards.
I can clearly picture you, as a pocket-sized English version of private Helga Geerhart, shoveling humongous amounts of tea and cakes on those young, idealistic, photogenic and very well articulated Scandinavian, American and British Greenpeace activists.
I look forwards to see that on CNN :-)
I knew that the English version of Michelle Dubois (of the resistance :-) was somewhere out there ”listening very carefully”
Anticipation huhhh....
Sorry to disapoint you dahling...
But you can go back to your laundry....
No Argie beefcakes coming anywhere near you this year...
This “we are the victims here” stance will only last until she realises it didn't work and then the threats will start up again.
It seems that a lot of the Argentines aren't happy with Mercopress. Do you mean they are not reporting a balanced view or do you mean that for a South American organisation they are not enough on your side? Maybe they are one of the 1000's of British companies flocking to South America to set up business.
I never thought I would agree anything with you, but Helga Geerhart does it!
l just want an excuse to wear my black leather outfit & jackboots.
Never ceases to amaze me the allure that “classical” German WWII uniforms exert on British women…....................
But well………….
They were, after all, designed and produced by Hugo Boss.
This time I have to say that it is TRUE that CFK hasn't done much to protect natural resources like extraction of minerals by foreign huge companies. This is ALSO the GRABBING OF NATURAL RESOURCES, and it is neo-colonialism, just like the presence and activities of british people at the Malvinas (well, that is a bit old-fashioned, but still it has some new features like self-determination mascarade that was created not so long ago so we could call it a “not-so-traditional” colonialism).
However, CFK's speech was so SMART and GREAT when she named enviromental ONGs (because she was not reffering to GreeenPeace, she reffered to all of them, argentinian ones and foreign).
There is SOMETHING MISSING in this article: she said “I haven't heard any ONG criticize the United kingdom for what they are doing at the Malvinas”. And this is is so TRUE... It demonstrates that even if Greenpeace or any other can be against petrol companies operating at the Malvinas, they didn't made their position so CLEAR, I also haven't heard about it.
Has anybody seen any campaign about it?? I think it was just written in a paper that they didn't publish anywhere...
So where is the ‘ill-advised’ thing in this speech?
It is great because it makes ONGs compromise politically. It shows their ideologies, it makes them responsible in a way they do not like to be responsible and they may not like it, but it is the way it should be.
I am a Malvinist, but for those who claim “long live the falklands” also. Shouldn't we know what important ONGs think about activities at the Malvinas?? Whether they support Argentinian or British position or none...
PD: very soon PETROL will have been just a two centuries parenthesis at Human History, how are we going to live then? Petrol is already very expensive. Final Count has started...
Learn what terms mean.
”Neocolonialism is the practice of using capitalism, globalization, and cultural forces to control a country (usually former European colonies in Africa or Asia) in lieu of direct military or political control. “
The UK uses direct military and political control, With the peoples wishes.
”self-determination mascarade that was created not so long ago so we could call it a “not-so-traditional” colonialism”
Decolonisation is only around today because of Self Determination. This seems to be something most Argentinians seem to fail to understand.
The whole reason decolonisation was implemented was because it is no longer seen as right for a government to control a population that does not wish it to do so.
No matter how you feel about it, Argentina is a foreign government who wants to control the islands and the population with it, the population does not wish to have an Argentinian government.
You might not agree that the islanders should be there. But Argentina's goals are colonial in nature. This is a fact.
Any chance of a photo: remember I asked first! :o)
l too, like the whales etc etc,
However, get it right, it is NOT your malvinas.
lt is OUR Falklands & your writ doesn't run here.
@24 Think liebling,
Who says that any clothes that l have is based on WWII German uniforms. lt could be motorbike protective clothing for all you know.
@27ChrisR,
l'm flattered, but sorry, l'm not allowed to(there are boundaries that EVEN l cannot cross).♥
”Motorbike protective clothing”..... Yeahh… right….
As appealing as a beanie, a fleece and some yellow Helly-Hansen overalls....
You can have aride on the back of my brand new Suzuki GSF1250FA ANY TIME. But you might need to hold on tight! :o)
Goood girl…….. Gooooood girl……..
Respect your Hubby and Master’s boundaries and don’t send no pictures to no Turnip from no Internet :-)))
I can see you fancy Argie girls... huhhh?
Here´s a picture of Eugenia at work last year.
For your KZ-Lagerkommandant Helga fantasy time.
She’s a peach……….. ain’t she?
What on earth are you talking about?
Have you been into the whisky a bit earlier tonight?
Not my thing, unfortunately for voyeurs(like yourself?).
lt took you nearly 26 hours to work out the implications of what l said.
You're slipping, boy!
Told you previously that l can do nearly anything l want to,
Go anywhere l like &
Get whatever l want.
Didn't work for you, huh? Pity. Probably used the wrong aproach.♥
And l don't consider ChrisR to be a turnip.
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ChrisR, lf l was single l would be honoured to ride on the back of your Suzy. The faster, the better!
Don’t worry; your secret is safe with me.
Won’t tell anybody…….
Did I let you waiting for 26 long hours...? Sorry…how inconsiderate of me…. Did you miss me a lot?
Evidently, I’m not counting the hours (like you :-)
So you can do nearly anything?
Key word being “nearly” I suppose…..
“Nearly”
l would like to shoot lying scumbags like Arguello & Timmerman but l know that l can't.
So yes, l can do “nearly” anything, but not everything.
Oh Think, you manly brute, you know that of course l miss you.
l hang on your every word.!
How did l ever live before l knew about you?♥
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Getting back to reality,
Good afternoon, smoko,coffee & bickitime.
You say:
“Oh Think, you manly brute, you know that of course l miss you.
l hang on your every word!
How did l ever live before l knew about you?”
I say:
I know......
Story of my life!
I always attract the half crazy ones...... ;-)
lts true ;-)))))))))))
I know..........
“………………………………………
And you know that She´s half crazy
But that´s why you want to be there
…………………………..……………”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=otJY2HvW3Bw
porque?
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