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La Nacion -lehdessä, Argentiinassa, 23.3.2014:
Caso Monsanto: sin lugar para distraídosLaitoin Googlen kääntäjällä tähän, vain niin korjattuna, että muutin kohdat, jossa kone oli kääntänyt nimen "Malvinas" nimeksi "Falklands"!
Tuosta saa selvää (virheistä huolimatta), ja se kyllä kertoo, että myös Argentiinassa on tahoja, jotka nyt kehottavat pistämään jäitä hattuun. Eli nyt on odotettava ympäristöselvityksen tulosta ja toimittava sen mukaan.
Kaikille sielläkään nuo katuaktivistit eivät ole ... katu-uskottavia?!
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Monsanto Case : no place to distractedThe new study of the environmental impact of a seed processing plant in Córdoba must terminate an arduous controversy Environmental movements have a strong global presence in the last third of the twentieth century. They have contributed , as an element of balance, more just, more prudent in the relationship between harnessing limitless nonrenewable resources of the planet and the elementary rules of preservation of nature and the environment in which it must operate human life balance.
Until then everything has been in favor of the common good . The problem , as in parallel lines with the use of human rights as a factory to serve political and economic interests , occurs when invoking ecological principles and sustaining human existence on earth is tied to collective superstitions , encouraged by those who seek to subordinate , to questionable causes, struggles undoubted nobility.
In the town of Malvinas , 15 kilometers from the city of Córdoba , is paralyzed for months a processing and conditioning of seed corn . It is a total investment of 400 million dollars, the largest that currently Encare internationally Monsanto , the agricultural giant activity and conceptualized by embodiments of the highest technological forefront .
The draft is no different Malvinas plant that firm operates twenty years in the game Rojas in Buenos core zone. In fact, should not be unconnected with the other 40 stores open in the same country in different parts of such nature. What happened to the House of Labor Córdoba has led , at the beginning of last year , to an action of amparo filed by neighbors to the construction of the facility is suspended Malvinas ?
Regardless of the court decision , which complied , Monsanto decided not to invest one more dollar until the project has the final legal approval. The Ministry of Water, Energy and Environment Córdoba returned the EIS submitted by the company on the grounds that " identified in the development of the production process does not meet the basic requirements of comprehensive management studies." He said that the documentation submitted is insufficient, repetitive and without the technical depth required. The planned investment in the Malvinas involves creating a source of employment for 400 people. More than that, equivalent to a direct filing of capital in a country that drives them away .
Córdoba had been featured in recent years a few unfortunate episodes on agronomic malpractice proceedings, but in the collective sense , spurred by political groups of street activism , have been recorded . In the case before us , the company has offered for the presentation of a new study , whose development invites reputable scientists , among others , some acting at the National University of Córdoba.
That's the only way to resolve an issue that are embraced by at least two leftist political movements . If the decisions regarding the use of natural resources and the provision of new industries will be hostage to political and emotional motivations without any rationality be feared a future end for our country.
Studies correspond with absolute seriousness and depth should be . Similarly, politicians from national and provincial government to local authorities should have the moral courage required holding public office should approach Monsanto and society to explain what is happening and to agree , in commercial operations everyday interests with sensitivity Argentine producers .
It is characteristic of insight to note that the agricultural community have worried more than it has done up here for a situation such as the Malvinas , it is concerned as a whole.
It is not, moreover, that the Nation and the province could easily walk away from a troubling conflict of national development and intend to download the cost of defending the works in question , isolated from other responsible companies, the mayor of Malvinas , which is radical. There can be no ambiguity in matters of this complexity , not only environmental, but institutional .
Striking that can cause damage to a population Cordovan what works without harm in other parts of the country , but that should be tested in a reliable way and urgently. No place for the distracted, starting with those who celebrated the announcement of one of the few investments of foreign capital was underway in Argentina .