Thank goodness someone gets it!!!Flix, San Juan and the study of Los Romeros. By: Nathanael Santos Photo of admin admin1 day ago0258 I would like to shout and, taking a scientific-environmental leap, nail down my thesis and say no to the mining exploitation of Los Romeros! But how to do it? On what basis would I be expressing my rejection? Being honest, I don't know, well, the scientists in the backyard, whom I have called prophets of environmental doom, those who only know how to be opportunists and oppose everything, in search of minutes of glory or advantageous personal benefits in agricultural projects, who always run through them in the San Juan valley, they intend to deny this province the opportunity to know if three million ounces of gold that lie beneath its mountains, can be properly exploited. responsible and sustainable way. And, furthermore, deny them the right to know how that wealth can improve the quality of life and the level of well-being of themselves and their communities. Although it is true that open pit mining in the Dominican Republic has been a real disaster, it is no less true that technology in general has evolved and made possible tunnel mining with minimal negative impact on the environment, which It is the type of exploitation that the promoters of the project and representatives of the Gold Quest company intend to carry out in los Romeros. It is laughable how in an Olympic way the enemies of this mining operation pretend to preach morality naked, let's see: A senator who owns mining farms believes that he can ride a wave of popularity by supporting those who, with an enormous amount of lies and speculation, have managed to sell the false idea that everything in mining is harmful, and that mining is not it is compatible with agricultural production, trying to prevent the study that would determine it from being carried out. It is good to say that it is proven that agricultural activity is compatible with sustainable mining exploitation, as shown by the Yuna River dammed in the Hatillo Dam, from where they take the fingerlings (small fish) with which the Sabaneta dam is planted and the other reservoirs in the country, and that irrigates the lower Yuna rice area, from where the largest rice production in the Dominican Republic comes from, plantations that are irrigated with water that passes through three mining operations and comes out without contamination. The new ghost or as we used to say in my childhood, the cuckoo that the enemies of this project have to scare the people of San Juan is called cyanide, a substance chemical that is toxic and harmful to the environment, which has historically been used in the gold extraction process and which the company Gold Quest assures will not use, because it will not do the complete benefiting and processing in the area, but will only do washing and concentrating, therefore, it will not need this chemical and it will not contaminate the waters of the San Juan River. But the diviners and enlightened ones who preach the environmental catastrophe of the valley, refuse to listen to these truths, sometimes I think they are after listing for themselves at the highest level, because they are not deaf. However, the senator's situation is understandable, since this honorable man reaches that position with the votes of the PLD, a large party, with which he no longer counts for To be able to be reelected, he needs some circumstance that favors him to maintain some level of political and social validity in the province, especially after his long and known absence and his opposition to the Romeros project, he could see it as a lifeline to his aspirations. That is why he is sending to the municipalities and each municipal district of this holy land, the "logistics" so that the few militants that his current party has support him, with the sending of buses full of comrades from the FUPU, to a march summoned by him, against the feared study. So it will not be known whether those attending this nonsense are anti-mine militants or members of the FUPU and direct beneficiaries of the "logistics" distributed. What is sad is that it is a senator who is promoting and financing an activity against compliance with the scientific and legal rigor of that project, which is, doing the environmental impact study. GLTA!