THE NEW DIARY, SANTO DOMINGO. – The Dominican Medical College (CMD), together with various environmental and social organizations in the country, announced this Wednesday that they will carry out a caravan march on March 29, with the aim of protesting in the surroundings of the Dominican company Falconbridge.
With the slogan "let's put out the 5 chimneys of Falconbridge" and by commemorating World Water Day on March 22, the organizers intend to call the attention of the citizens of the Cibao and South regions, as well as the entire Capital, to that they realize the inconsideration and brutality dispersed by the company on the human and natural life of the country.
This danger is on the way for the region of San Juan de la Maguana, the Northwest Line and Azua with the Gold Quest mine, Unigold and with the installation of polluting barges respectively.
Likewise, it will happen in San Francisco de Macors with the project inaugurated by Vice President Raquel Pea in the Maribel community that would destroy 900 tasks of trees”, they explained.
The organizations detailed that the company has caused the disappearance of dozens of streams, rivers and springs in the areas of Maimn, Hato Viejo and Rancho Nuevo, as a result of the lack of filters in the mining entity that are used to retain polluting elements, during the gold extraction process.
"Forest loggers and farmers have turned this country, with the complicity of the present and previous governments, into a savagery that extinguishes water sources," they specified.
The environmentalists also affirmed that powerful rivers like the Yuna today are turned into small pipes and annihilated by bad environmental practices.
"Now the government is promoting a bill for the privatization of water in the country," they said.
By: Tania Frias