A bid to translate a longstanding yearning of multinational mining majors into reality is being made during Argentina’s summer.
On Monday, the national government presented a bill to amend Law No. 26,639, commonly known as the National Glacier Protection Law, which has already entered the Senate seeking approval in this summer’s extraordinary sessions. The initiative aims at dismantling the minimalist régime which today protects glaciers and the periglacial perimeter – i.e. Argentina’s most important strategic water reserves.
As anticipated and has been the general rule since this government took office, the reform represents an extremely grave and unacceptable regression in the protection of water. It comes in a context of climatic crisis, the accelerated retreat of glaciers and growing hydric stress nationwide.
The government’s bill introduces structural changes which would completely alter the
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