Cancun, (EFE) .- The environmental organization Greenpeace carried out a protest in the offices of the Delegation of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat) in the hotel zone of Cancun, for the authorization of at least 26 banks of extraction of stone material, mostly linked to the Mayan train.
Carlos Samayoa, coordinator of the ‘Mexico to Grito’ Campaign by Greenpeace, said that the predation model initiated by Calica in the Riviera Maya is being “nationalized.”
“We now see companies like CEMEX, which is a Mexican transnational that now has a permission from Semarnat to deforest 4.5 square kilometers or 650 hectares near Tulum and, as if that were not enough, we also have companies such as Train Maya Sa de CV that is making the for holder of stone materials of stone material,” he said.
The activist recalled that Calica is the best known company for having “depreded” for three decades more than 2,000 hectares.
“We have an alarming fact that is almost 10,000 hectares of jungle that have been carved and dynamited to make this type of banks. Calica is nothing more a little thing of this size compared to what is that same model replicated by the entire peninsula,” he denounced.
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A group of activists and volunteers of the organization climbed through the offices of the Semarnat delegation in Quintana Roo, which are located in the Hotel Zone of Cancun, next to the Sigfrido channel, which connects the Nichupté lagoon with the sea.
With a dump off rocks at the head of the offices, as a sample of the material that is currently extracted from the virgin jungle, with the authorization of environmental authorities, which have even issued authorizations in an extemporary manner in areas that were already previously impacted for the works of the Mayan Train.
“What we just overturned here is a small sample nothing more than the Semarnat is authorizing, the consent that is showing and the complicity with this destruction model,” he said.
Samayoa stressed that the call to Semarnat is for him to commit not to allow more cases such as Calica in the Mayan jungle.
“Although damage has already been recognized, that the environmental impacts of megaprojects such as the Mayan train were already recognized, the dangers that lurk to the green lung of the country are still latent,” he warned.
He argued that so far this year, authorizations for almost 30 stone material banks only for the Mayan train were published in the Ecological Gazette of the Semarnat.
“What comes from CEMEX, which is close to Tulum, are 4.5 square kilometers that are authorizing it to cut down now, jungle that is still a virgin and that is at risk of becoming this, in rocks, in dynamite, in carved trees,” he said.
He insisted that the petition is that Semarnat puts the enough “locks”, legally, politically so that it really talks about jungle protection.
“They have shown interest, they have shown concern, however, we need to settle the way to how that remediation comes. What do we really do to remedy what you can still?” He emphasized.
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