And Consortium AEA CORPOGUAJIRA build strategic environmental assessment tool for the mining industry

Mayors can implement to organize their environmental policies.

By: Maria Angelica Egurrola H.

For environmentally organize the exploitation of mining in the department, Corpoguajira begins construction of a measuring tool of environmental impacts, allowing the organization of municipal domestic policy, regarding the use of natural resources, and, is anticipated impact thereof. This tool also includes, evaluation and effectiveness of the implementation of national standards in our territory when granting the environmental license, and, run mining projects. This project was approved by Min Minas, MADS, rated by National Planning and included in the national OCAD, It will be implemented by the consortium EAE, in eight months, and, will feature advice from Rodrigo Jiliberto, world expert has worked in policy, plans and programs for sustainable development in Europe and Latin America. The strategic environmental assessment of the mining sector, is a tool that has been implemented worldwide by which an evaluation of programs and projects that apply environmental exploitation in a territory and its effects made plans. With this tool license was issued to major projects such as the exploitation of gas off schore (exploitation of offshore crude ago, by platform). Only two corporations of the thirty-three in Colombia, They have worked on this issue. Carcundinamarca in agreement with the MADS and Corpoguajira.