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Update from Vanguardia.com....nothing material other than there's a meeting taking place on Tuesday and now it's apparently going to be this month (November)...
https://www.vanguardia.com/economia/local/232101-mineros-de-santander-y-ministra-de-ambiente-se-reuniran-este-martes
The Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Luz Helena Sarmiento Villamizar, you will be presented again socioeconomic studies conducted in the region of North Soto, so that this information is taken into account in the process of delimitation of wasteland.
The meeting with the Minister of Environment is scheduled for 10:00 am Tuesday November 5, at the premises of this portfolio in Bogota, as confirmed by representatives of North Soto.
In this month, as announced by the Minister Sarmiento Villamizar last September 25 in the district of Berlin, the decision will be announced on the delimitation of Santurbán moor, and even today, as the miners in the province of North Soto, no member of this portfolio has performed technical visit for the decision.
With socio-economic studies in hand and with a list of concerns that affect the mining community of North Soto, come mayors, presidents of municipal councils and representatives of miners and farmers in six districts of the province: California, streaks, Suratá , Killing, Charta and Tona.
In this regard, the California Council President, Carlos Augusto Monroy Latorre told Vanguardia.com that this meeting is expected "to have first hand knowledge about what is going on with the issue of delimitation of wasteland. To date we have not know any progress. In the Ministry of Environment and were rooted socio-economic studies have been undertaken in the region, however, take again to discuss the concerns that have to respect and care to be taken into account besides the biotic studies ".
In turn, one of the representatives of the miners Suratá, Edwin Esteban Pulido, said that since the Minister Luz Helena Sarmiento was in Berlin, "there has been no technical visit by the Ministry. We do not want is to make a decision on the moor line based on satellite photographs you have, without the prior site visit required by law. "
In the field visit would establish the differentiation of forest and ecosystem to decide on which line would Santurbán moor.
"So far only the National Institute Agustin Codazzi has made presence in the area, taking soil samples in Tona, streaks and California to the corresponding mapping, but do not know another study or technical visit to the region," said Esteban Pulido.