Dec 15 sounds like the new decision date for local mining in Vetas
The minister of mining was rescheduled. Look to see if he shares the same timeline on his revisit to the area.
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Vetanos called for respect for the delimitation agreements of the Pramo de Santurbn, on a visit from the Minister of the Environment to the territory. Faced with the visit of the Minister of the Environment, Susana Muhammad, the community of the municipality of Vetas, Santander was forceful in asking that after more than a decade the ministry finally comply with the agreements that were made with the previous government, in which the Vetanos are given legal certainty so that they can build, work ancestral mining among other economic activities.
Most of the Vetanos called for the situation in their territory to be categorically defined so that they are not more called "illegal" because they carry out an ancestral mining activity that has been carried out for more than 500 years and where they have cohabited with the environment.
According to the elected mayor of veins, Anglica Mara Garca Rodrguez. , the municipality of Vetas has been an example of how the 2017 T-06 sentence is rigorously applied, for which the inhabitants made working tables with entourages of the Ministry of the Environment, the CDMB, the Ministry of Mines among others, and has completed agreements with the State, which has today, are not yet taken into account by Minambiente, and in which the community asks for continuity to these concertations.
With the support of 69% of the voters who supported me, we say that we will no longer review those agreements because we already did with the previous government, we do not want to continue to be laboratory rabbits of the government," said Elected Mayor Anglica Garca.
He also argued that the definition of where the moor line for Vetas will pass is already defined and based on rigorous studies that were previously done.
Within the framework of this visit at the end of the interventions of the representatives of the Ministry of the Environment, the municipal mayor's office, the Ministry of Mines, among others, Minister Susana Muhammad said that by December 15 there will be a resounding determination of what the situation of this municipality will be like, giving a part of tranquility to the Vetanos ensuring that they recognize the special case that Vetas represents for the Pramo de Santurbn.