Millares de colombianos y ambientalistas internacionales, tenemos conocimiento que en próximos días, el gobierno nacional de la República de Colombia - en cabeza de Ud. Señor presidente, con la participación de la Ministra del Medio Ambiente y del Ministro de Minas y Energía - decidirá si la reserva de protección ambiental y fuente de agua ubicada en el Páramo de San Turban (Santander) se entrega en bandeja de oro y plata, a la multinacional canadiense Greystar Resources Ltda.
Quienes suscribimos esta carta pública, pedimos dar la negativa al proyecto. En distintas audiencias públicas, sectores gremiales y comunitarios, biólogos, científicos y ambientalistas han advertido la inconveniencia de otorgar esta licencia de explotación minera. Los peligros de destrucción y contaminación están sobre la mesa, la tragedia invernal que ha azotado la nación con altísimos costos de vidas humanas y devastación de ecosistemas son triste radiografía de un país que ha pasado por alto los principios de equilibrio vital: hombre-tierra; dejándolo a merced del consumismo y la avaricia.
La naturaleza pasa factura por los daños irreparables causados a las aguas y a la tierra.
En medio de esta crisis de sostenibilidad ambiental, nos corresponde actuar con responsabilidad, inteligencia y grandeza. El bien común está por encima de los intereses privados y los falaces argumentos de “progreso” con los que la mayoría de veces se presenta a la ciudadanía y a la opinión pública este tipo de proyectos.
Igual criterio que el de la iniciativa de restitución de tierras pedimos para la protección de las reservas ambientales. Si en su agenda de gobierno está “sanar la herida”, sería contradictorio que a las fuentes de vida se les decretara la muerte a mansalva.
El corazón de la tierra no aguanta más. Abierto desangra los venenos que el hombre le ha inyectado.
La situación no amerita pañitos de agua tibia, requiere cuidados intensivos, una primera medida preventiva para el paciente Páramo de San Turban, es denegar la licencia de explotación minera y de esta manera evitar que por su vientre corran ríos de mercurio y cianuro pestilente.
Señor Presidente, Dr. Juan Manuel Santos, pedimos de Ud. y de su equipo de gobierno una actitud de compromiso con el espíritu constitucional, la protección de las fuentes de vida y la salvaguarda de los derechos ambientales amenazados de muerte.
A propósito, somos E-COLOMBIANOS…Usted y su equipo… también lo son?
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Thousands of Colombians and international environmentalists know that in the coming days, the national government of the Republic of Colombia –of which you are the head, Mr. President, along with the participation of the Minister of Environment and the Minister of Mines and Energy- will decide whether the reserve of environmental protection and water supply located in the Moor of San Turban (Santander) will be delivered on a platter of gold and silver, to the Canadian multinational Greystar Resources Ltd.
Those of us who subscribe to this public letter, ask you to reject the project. In a number of various public hearings, unions and community sectors, biologists, scientists and environmentalists, have warned of the inconveniences of granting a mining license. The dangers of destruction and pollution are on the table: the winter tragedy that has struck the nation with a high toll of human lives and the devastation of ecosystems are a sad radiography of a country that has ignored the vital principles of balance of man-nature, leaving it at the mercy of consumerism and greed.
Nature takes its toll for the irreparable damage caused to water and land.
Those of us who subscribe to this public letter, ask you to reject the project. In a number of various public hearings, unions and community sectors, biologists, scientists and environmentalists, have warned of the inconveniences of granting a mining license. The dangers of destruction and pollution are on the table: the winter tragedy that has struck the nation with a high toll of human lives and the devastation of ecosystems are a sad radiography of a country that has ignored the vital principles of balance of man-nature, leaving it at the mercy of consumerism and greed.
Nature takes its toll for the irreparable damage caused to water and land.
Amid this crisis of environmental sustainability, it is our duty to act with responsibility, intelligence and greatness. The common good is above private interests and the fallacious arguments of "progress" with which most times this type of projects are presented to the citizens and public opinion.
We ask the same criteria as that of the replacement of lands for the environmental reserves. If the agenda of your government includes "healing the wound", it would be contradictory to enact death penalty to the sources of life.
The heart of the earth can no longer stand this anymore. Openly, it bleeds the poisons man has injected.
We ask the same criteria as that of the replacement of lands for the environmental reserves. If the agenda of your government includes "healing the wound", it would be contradictory to enact death penalty to the sources of life.
The heart of the earth can no longer stand this anymore. Openly, it bleeds the poisons man has injected.
This situation doesn't require band-aid solutions, it requires intensive care. A first preventive measure for the patient Moor of San Turban is to deny the mining license, thereby preventing the foul rivers of mercury and cyanide to run through its belly.
Mr. President, Dr. Juan Manuel Santos, we ask of you and your government team an attitude of commitment to the spirit of the constitution, the protection of the sources of life and the protection of the threatened environmental rights .
We are E-COLOMBIANS... Are you and your team also?Mr. President, Dr. Juan Manuel Santos, we ask of you and your government team an attitude of commitment to the spirit of the constitution, the protection of the sources of life and the protection of the threatened environmental rights .
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