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With more than 5,000 spectators, the virtual forum 'Present and Future of Soto Norte' was held, where leaders of this province of Santander, the National Government and members of the scientific community expressed their ideas and concerns about the mining activity, impacts and benefits for the territories and the country's economy.
The forum, which was held on the morning of this Thursday, February 4, began with the intervention of four leaders from Soto Norte (a province made up of the municipalities of Surat, California, Vetas, Matanza, Charta and Tona), who highlighted the tradition mining company in this area of the country and talked about the impacts generated by the decision of the National Environmental Licensing Authority (Anla) to file the license process that Minesa was carrying out to start its project. “We did not expect the decision and it left us shocked because Many of us depend on the Soto Norte de Minesa project, so we express our nonconformity and ask that our voices be heard since we are the ones who know best and preserve the territory, ”said Edwin Blanco, president of Asojuntas de Surat, who added that it is mining while taking care of the environment, for her part, for Ivonne Gonzlez, spokesperson for the Mining Dignity Movement, at this time the region runs risk.,,