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Mendoza without mining policy
The electoral strategy of the mendocino ruling has halted the opportunity to diversify the economy.
Despite the fact that several important sectors in the Mendoza economy still claiming a diversification of the productive matrix in the neighboring province, in particular through the momentum to the megaminería, the Government of Celso Jaque has been back in recent days their impulses of establishing a mining policy to attract capital to metalíferas farm residence.
The activism of environmentalists, who joined the election campaign, has polarized political positions in tune with a rejection of the mining pit of 75% in the polls, the mendocino ruling endorsed in the legislature the rejection of the environmental impact to the project San Jorge, to exploit a deposit of gold and copper in Uspallata. Check had been promoting the feasibility of this venture from 2007, when local entrepreneurs sectors watched San Juan takeoff due to large scale mining.
Moreover, at the opening of the week the Metalmechanic Expo VII in the property trade fair of the General San Martín Park, the President of the Mendoza (Asinmet), July Totero metallurgical industries Association, said in a speech that the metal is interested in the development of mining in the province, especially for the work that generates, believing that in the case of the San Jorge minethey are at stake between 3,000 and 4,000 jobs between direct and indirect. Other defenders of the project, note that with this setback Mendoza deprived of income of annual royalties estimated at three billion dollars.
The dilemma of the Mendoza megaminería has a huge political cost, that even with the direction given by the Government to prevent its candidate for Governor, the former "Paco\" Minister \' Pérez, is harassed in the campaign with the nickname of pro-minero, has not succeeded in overcoming the internal generated by the break in provincial peronism. " In this context it is understandable that numerous mendocinas companies wish to move to San Juan to join mining development, aware of the international demand for raw materials whose high price encourages investments to offer inputs strategic, as any Mendoza - uranium among others - but the political leadership speculation ignores them.