The administrative act also orders the opening of a sanctioning environmental investigation against the offending citizen..

The Regional Autonomous Corporation of La Guajira – Corpoguajira by virtue of its evaluation functions, control and environmental monitoring of natural resources imposed a preventive measure to suspend activities of exploitation of materials or minerals in the Los Deseos quarry, the municipality of San Juan del Cesar, for not having the environmental impact study, the environmental license required for mineral extraction and the forest use permit as requirements contemplated in environmental regulations.

The preventive measure implies the cessation of any work or mining activity that is being carried out on said property, it is of immediate execution, has a preventive and transitory nature.

During the inspection by the officials of the environmental authority, it was possible to verify the extraction of material and it is also presumed that it is subjected to explosions with dynamite and then removed with machinery.. Además, affectation of natural resources and the environment was established, generating impacts on the soil, air, landscape and biodiversity.

Corpoguajira also orders in the administrative act the opening of an environmental investigation of a punitive nature against the offending citizen in order to verify the facts or omissions that constitute the alleged violation of environmental protection regulations..