A pollution plume from the distillery, if it reaches the Carrizal river, would mean that the basins of the Mendoza and Tunuyán rivers are indeed connected. How can we assess the extent, timing, manner, and limits to which we will run out of water? It's as if the state granted you a driver's license on the mere promise that you will learn to brake someday, — reinforces Aldo Rodriguez Salas, an authority in Environmental Law who has defended the province in lawsuits against serial polluters, and warns of this risk. IV They say they will install a camera to monitor 24/7 connected to the environmental police… As a good lawyer, I bring evidence, proven facts that the state could not control: the discharge of raw sewage, with no treatment whatsoever, into the Pescara channel right nearby. Against the backdrop of drums and honks. By Eugenia Segura, for Huella del Sur. In the annex of the legislature, that is, not in the part where they have suddenly taken to detaining and beating water defenders, but in the other one. Even all the requests to complete the hidden and/or missing information in the baseline studies, that is, the basic ones without which nothing is possible… The Precautionary Principle is not a slogan, it is a legal obligation, says Oikos lawyer Agustín Sánchez. We ask them to rise to this historic moment… A Conditional Environmental Impact Declaration is illegal. It does not exist legally. Outright, on something that was already unanimously rejected in 2011, with the fresh Veladero spill making headlines, and which continues to pollute to this day. This time, the police were instructed to let whoever they wanted pass, and the officers (the blues) who were there can testify, that when they don't send infiltrators or provocations, our behavior is impeccable, totally peaceful. III Our dear 'nerds,' our bold minds, reached their 'nerdvana' at the hour when the fate of our water is once again being decided. Raw materials to make more weapons… For all the above reasons, we reaffirm our negative consent to the San Jorge mining project and request the authorities of Mendoza and this legislature to REJECT the Mendoza Copper PSJ project and to PASS the project for the creation of the Uspallata-Polvaredas Protected Natural Area, which is already in legislative process, as an alternative development model that respects all forms of life. We make a loving, urgent call to all legislators and to the population of Mendoza to be guardians of all forms of life… Claudia Herrera, of the Huarpe Guaytamari community, shook the foundations of the chamber. Source: https://huelladelsur.ar/2025/11/16/no-van-a-salirse-con-la-suya-porque-no-es-suya-es-nuestra/ With or without an ecological flow? And it's all a matter of good federalism, just to get in good with the mining governors in exchange for a few votes in the senate. As if there weren't tremendous deals behind removing the word 'periglacial' from a law, as if the essence in this case weren't also invisible to the eye. They divided the 9,000-page file among themselves, this mirage of copy-paste that no human being can endure in its entirety, where there is as much missing data as an overabundance of reasoning without premises, statements without support, and sentences without a subject or predicate, where you have to guess what they meant to say. And they haven't even bothered to correct it, from 2011 to the present, centered his presentation the Yiyo, if they had wanted to clear up any of the scientific uncertainty that already conditioned that DIA. With data that costs nothing, like measuring the flow of the El Tigre stream in all seasons. Or when the alert mechanism worked correctly, and a brave channel inspector, María Emilia Escatolón, denounced YPF for contamination in Lunlunta. Do you expect us to believe that you will control a mega-mining operation at 3,000 meters in altitude? I have reported all this to the police for the commission of such and such crimes and etcetera... — threw the Penal Code at their heads the lawyer and former senator Marcelo Romano. V The lawyer for FARN, Cristián Fernández, summarized his presentation, focused on aquifers, quoting Saint-Exupéry: what is essential is invisible to the eye. And now that Milei says he will also repeal the Glacier Law, at the suggestion of Cornejo. Where, as Liza, the dancer with high civic consciousness, requests, it should be a place for building laws, and not a detention center where you have to demand that the hallway cameras be investigated. With her white hair waving in the Carribean breeze, from the parallel COP in Belém, Nora testifies that the watchful activist eyes and ears out there are alert to what happens in these three Oases we call Mendoza. With its 2019, with its 'Never Again,' with its people defending water, moving and exemplary in the eyes of the world. II In the annex of the legislature, I said, the deputies Ramón, Morán, Fugazzotto, Lizana and Difonso listened to us, took notes, were receptive to our reports, and put themselves in our shoes. Something that the others did not do for lack of a quorum, except for a moment Sol Salinas from 'pro,' the deputies who missed it. They won't have all this data. Or they will have it but it will be rusted in the memory of the older ones, or in intact folders, when they go to the plenary session of commissions, this Monday at 10 in the morning. And now they are persecuting them with fabricated cases, fired them from their jobs, like Federico Soria. As if we didn't know that the conditions of Trump and Bessent in the swap, the spoils of the war in Ukraine, the genocide in Gaza, are for rare earths, metals, lithium, uranium. Image: Assembly for Water Guaymallén. A synthetic tour of some of the presentations, evidence, and arguments from the Assemblies for Water, Original Peoples, and NGOs offered to legislators, prior to the Plenary of Commissions on the mega-mining San Jorge project, and the Malargüe Occidental Mining District I, II and III. That is, a simple flow meter, which they never fixed.
