Piñera blasts environmental licensing for giant Pascua-Lama gold mine project

Saturday, June 8th 2013 - 06:18 UTC

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Chilean President Sebastian Piñera blasted the environmental review process that led to a permit for Barrick Gold’s, now-suspended 8.5 billion dollar Pascua-Lama gold mine project. Read full article

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Very good, Mr. Piñera!

I hope that pretty soon, from your opposition bench, you will exclaim...:

“The environmental permit for Hidroaysen was badly done... you look at it and wonder: how didn't we anticipate all these problems?”
Jun 08th, 2013 - 08:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Many conservatives and liberals have been completely against Pascua-Lama and HidroAysén from the very beginning. I'm pro-mining and recognize that Chile needs to increase its electrical power generation capabilities, but these projects are wrong for my country.

Even Socialists make wrong decisions, or have you forgotten?
Jun 08th, 2013 - 01:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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