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Ecologistas anulan pacto con el gobierno
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Ecologists annul pact with the government
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Ecologists annul pact with the government





Signed with Bachelet when she was presidential candidate in 2005. Three times the Bachelet administration denied the referred point not to include the nuclear option in the power policy, according to the environmentalists. Reason sufficient to evict the commitment to support its management. Their darts aim at Marcelo Tokman. The Nation, 23 of April of 2008.

The decision was taken days ago and it only lacked to give him to warning to the minister Secretary General of the Presidency, Jose Antonio See-Rooster, which happened yesterday in afternoon in the Currency. The environmentalist and ecological organizations evicted the agreement that signed with the then candidate Michelle Bachelet the 21 of November of 2005 in the Botanical Garden Chagual, that contained ten commitments for a sustainable development, because its administration did not fulfill it.

The main argument is the repeated violation of point 7 of the decalogue: “Not to include the nuclear option in the national power policy”. According to the letter which they gave See-Rooster, that commitment was transgressed in more than an occasion.

First, with the decree of March of the year last of the Ministry of Mining that creates the presidential commission “Work group in Nucleus-Electricity” with bottoms public superior to the 100 million weights for its work, which was reiterated in the shipment to the Parliament of the budget of the nation for this year where financing for that same group is included.

Second, with the participation of Marcelo Tokman the past 27 of March in the seminary “nuclear Energy: an option for Chile ", where the minister of Energy announced two million dollars to evaluate the incorporation of the nuclear energy in the electrical matrix of the country which they would repeat the 2009. “That one was not a seminary, but a lobby of the nuclear companies”, says one of the environmentalists.

See-Rooster said that the President will respond to them in the next ones and who she will raise the subject in the political committee. The name of Tokman was the one that was repeated more in half an hour of meeting. “(See-Rooster) it said Us that the announcements of Tokman must to the power conjuncture and to the pressures of different sectors. But he was intentionally very vague in its sayings ", tells one of the assistants to the appointment. The environmentalists raised that the only thing whom its position would change it would be the resignation of the minister of Energy. “But we know that that is not going to happen”.

The environmentalists, nevertheless, recognize that she advanced in some points: the formulation of the projects of law for the creation of the Ministry of Environment and the Supervision of Environmental Control, the creation of the National Service of Parks and the elaboration of the Integral Strategy of River basins. But they notice that little or nothing became in the establishment of a System of Environmental River basins and lines of fiscal policy for the environmental sustentabilidad; the extension of the Bottom of Environmental Protection; the glacier protection and not to open passage commercial to the transgénicos cultures.

Today the representatives of the 23 organizations who signed the agreement of Chagual will make a press conference (10: 30 hours), in the offices of the Office of the public prosecutor of Medio Ambiente (FIMA) to give greater details on the reasons of the aim of the environmental pact with the Government.


10 COMMITMENTS FOR the ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTENTABILIDAD OF the NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
(AGREEMENT CHAGUAL)

1-Shipment to the Parliament, finishing the first year of government, the reforms to Law 19,300 for the creation of the Ministry of Environment.
1.1-Creation during the mandate, of an Undersecretary's office of Natural Resources and Biodiversity (employee of the Ministry) that articulates the sectorial policies and programs for the sustainable use of the natural resources and the biodiversity. The present Conama, happened to constitute itself in an Undersecretary of Environmental Management.
1.2-Generate a articulated municipal environmental authority with the Ministry of the Medioambiente, in order that the communal governments have a local environmental policy. (it requires to modify Law of Municipalities)

2-Create an Environmental Supervision, that fortifies the supervise roll of the State, reduces the discretion and assures the probity civil employee.

3-Formulate and to send to the Congress a Law Marco de Territorial Ordenamiento, that articulates the existing instruments and balances the participation of the ministries, the regional authorities and the citizens, strategically to order the 4-Establish

territory during the mandate a System of Environmental Accounts that it includes: existing accounts of natural capital, rents by natural resources (water, mining, earth) and indicators on amount and quality.

5-Establish during the mandate 2 lines of fiscal policy to revert the environmental insustentabilidad: a) Reorientation of subsidies and mechanisms of promotion, b) To reformulate existing economic instruments to internalizar costs and of preventing environmental liabilities.

6-Extend the Environmental Bottom (Law 19,300) to an annual amount of 5 million dollars (20 million dollars during the mandate), for investigation and environmental action. The Bottom will be oriented to support training centers and organizations of the civil society.

7-No to include the nuclear option in the national power policy.

8-No to open the country commercial to the transgénicos cultures, and to establish the requirement of Studies of Environmental Impact for the present reproduction of transgénicas seeds.

9-Protect the glaciers, and not to approve its removal and/or destruction.

10- To establish a National Service of National Parks that become position of the protected areas public; support and SOURCE articulates with the private protected
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DECLARACIÓN PÚBLICA URGENTE
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URGENT PUBLIC DECLARATION
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URGENT PUBLIC DECLARATION

(Letter opened to President Michelle Bachelet)

Santiago, April of 2008

CITIZENS AND ORGANIZATIONS WORRIED

ABOUT VIOLENT FACTS HAPPENED

IN the COAST OF the NEW REGION OF the RIVERS


the down signatory organizations and people we adhered to the communitarian demand of cease to the violence and the empire of the State of Right in the coastal zone of Valdivia is reestablished immediately, in the Commune of San jOse of the Mariquina, where Company CELCO tries by the force to install ducto of unloading of its liquid remainders of the plant of Valdivia cellulose.

The Missisipi creek and the town of Mehuín, located to 80 km. of the city of Valdivia, from the last week they have been occupied by a numerous group of people who support to the Celco company, which she has begun to harass the population and to strike and to threaten the members of the organization who heads the resistance to ducto, the Committee of Defense of the Sea of Mehuín, and the local population, including men, women and children.

Some of these people are same who during year 2007 signed a millionaire agreement with Celco, raising opposition which they maintained ducto and jeopardizing their collaboration to the company in exchange for economic benefits.

The group of violentistas that support to CELCO has been walking for days in light trucks by the coastal town with total impunity in an attitude of “matonaje and permanent threat”.

Simultaneously, to the place a considerable contingent of the police militarized with all its repressive infrastructure has been transferred as trucks send to water and gases, those that have been dedicated to observe the increasing violence, without as opposed to taking part the aggressions that are object the settlers, which leaves unprotected and impotent still more the community.

In the sea, in as much, the Navy military has retired by the force the networks that the artisan fishermen had installed in the zones of handling that the law confers to them.

On the other hand, the mass media have shut up these serious events. In spite of the denunciations and to the regional alert, no massive mass media, have become present in the zone.

The previous thing, an unacceptable complicity between the political power, the police forces, massive mass media and the Celco company is come off for, using average ilegítimos, to fold the legitimate will of the citizenship to take care of its health and its environment, as the Constitution guarantees it.

As opposed to this:

1. - We demanded an urgent answer of the government who assures the constitutional rights the threatened settlers.

2. - We demanded to know which is the mission that is fulfilling the police in the place and so that it does not act before serious the illicit ones that it is observing.

3. - We demanded that the government informs about which is the mission that is fulfilling the Navy in the zone and so that it appears protecting interests of a private company.

4. - Finally, we demanded that the measures are taken to guarantee the tranquillity and security of the leaders and members of the Committee of Defense of the Sea of Mehuín and its relatives.

Kindly



Ecological Action

Regional Agenda of the Araucanía.

National association of Rural Women and Indigenous ANAMURI

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RURAL AND INDIGENOUS WOMEN.

Atacama Limpio? Vallenar Region of Atacama

Ahimsa Caravan by the Earth.

Social Cultural center and of Environment Ceibo? Maipú

Ecoceanos Center

Alive City.

CIVITA ACTIONS OF CITIZEN EMPRENDIMIENTO.

Claudius Escobar, Civil Engineer.

Claudius Lopez Vegazo.

Codeff - Earth Friends.

Group To Good Port.

Rexistencia group.

Committee of Kamarikun Human rights

Community for the Human Development.

CONAPACH.

Coordination Anti - Passover Lama of Santiago.

Corporation Against Urban, Social and Environmental Abuses of the region of Coquimbo.

Corporation of Studies and Great North Development.

Corporation FORGE and its President, Lawyer Sebastián Cox.

Corporation the Dwelling.

Eugene Vergara, independent ONG CDI

Chile Feministas

Foundation Origin.

Group of Paukartambo Music.

Striking Striking Jaime, Member National Direction Left Christian of Chile.

The Alliance by one Better Quality of Life (Network of Action in Plaguicidas and its Alternatives of Chile)

feminista Memory.

Movement Generation 80, G80.

Observatory the International of Migrations OCIM

Latin American Observatory of Environmental Conflicts? Periodic

OLCA the Citizen.

Radial program Water Seeds.

Raul Molina Otárola, Geographer, Doctor (c) in Anthropology.

Network of Action by the Environmental Rights of the Araucanía? ROAD.

Network of Action by Social Environmental Justice - CRACKS

We save Cobquecura.