Buenos Aires, March 26 (NA) – Former National Deputy Graciela Camaño today spoke out against the reform of the Glacier Law and stated that the standard approved in 2010 “is the minimum floor” and “it cannot be reduced.” Participating virtually in the hearing held in the Lower House, the former lawmaker emphasized that the Escazú Agreement, to which Argentina has acceded, “has hierarchy superior to laws” and “establishes parameters of public participation that, far from having been observed, have been completely overlooked or contravened because the public's participation in the initial stages was not verified.” “Retreating on environmental issues is not governing, it is renouncing the future,” pointed out the Buenos Aires native, who was a national deputy from 1989 to 1993, from 1997 to 2002, and from 2003 to 2023. She also denounced that “it was omitted to provide the public with the necessary information effectively,” and added that “the deadlines are by no means reasonable,” as reported by the Argentine News Agency. “The non-fulfillment of the mandatory hearing in accordance with constitutional guidelines clearly determines the absolute nullity of the act issued under these conditions,” she considered. “This project whose object is not mining but the environment, clearly violates Article 41 of the National Constitution,” she warned. In this regard, Camaño warned that it “seeks to transform a law that has scientific characteristics of minimum uniform protection for all freshwater reservoir territories into a political law where each province will define which periglacial environment to protect or not, according to its mining exploitation.”
