Pretty sketchy news announcement. One could read all sorts of stuff into it, but I guess one is supposed to surmise the real story.
I guess greenies are everywhere. Not surprising. Greenies stopped Tambo Grande in Peru and could stop the Navidad project of Aquiline's from producing. The law concerning open cast metal mines is unclear to me, but it definitely prohibits cyanide usage. This is becoming an epidemic in Argentina, stemming from a 'flow of ignorance' about the chemical and its supposed environmental dangers.
In fact if properly monitored and treated, cyanide poses very little environmental danger as it is so short-lived in nature. It is not a long term poisong that works its way up the food chain like a hormone or an insecticide. It vanishes within 24 to 48 hours as an active compound from several sources of destruction that are ubiqitious, metals and UV light being two. Lesser as natural cyanide killers are thiosuphate compounds, chlorine compounds and alkaline compounds. It should be noted that plants make low level natural cyanide and it is found in trace quantities in food and water. As a trace chemical the body has natural thiosulphates that render it from becoming dangerous when it is well below the LD50. Cyanogens released from flowers are a natural insecticide.
Cyanide is beneficial in trace amounts being found as a component in many anti-oxidants in teas, fruits and vegetables. Lima beans contain enough cyanide to kill someone if they ate 5 lbs at a sitting. As a matter of fact natural toxins in many vegetables from potatoes to cassava to turnips have to be respected and dealt with and are everyday. The element that was thought to be beneficial in reducing tumours in peach pits (laetrile) is cyanide. Laetrile does have some tumour reducing activity, but when it was found that it was not a magic bullet for advanced agressive cancer, it was declared to be hooey. In fact it is not hooey in a preventative role and is still be researched in Russia. The anti-oxidant mechanism is clear. Laetrile in excess amounts can cause illness, so it should not be fooled with.
I supposed we could coin a new term to define what happens when mob-lobbies propose laws that don't make scientific sense or are unnecessary for protection of habitats and the ecology.
Greengorance.
An offshoot might be green-go-no or green-no-go.
The legal adjective is mobolobularious.
Join mob-lobbies and a form of greengorance and you have
-- moblobiegreenogo --
To describe a legal action which results in banishment of an industry from an area, we can say it is moblobulariousgreenogoance
which freely translates to 'we eat beans from can' .. which will gradually evolve to 'eat grass from ditch' ..
As a touchstone as to when greennogo is justified we should save concerted action for the phenom of greenogrow. When that happens in lab or pilot plant it is time to bring out the lobbies and citizen action groups. We have to hold massive ignorance in abeyance until it becomes absolutely necessary.
But I think before all these gloomy scenarios come to pass we will be in chain gangs making circuit boards while Asian guards patrol with AK's and dogs outside dimply lit concrete factories ...
In a way it's the free lunch that the socialists aspire to. When the dinner bell rings in the factory and the gruel is hose into the trough, its gratis.. no need to deduct from your wages.. you won't have any...
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BUENOS AIRES, Apr 20 (IPS) - Environmental activists in Argentina applauded an Argentine Supreme Court ruling against a projected open cast gold mine using cyanide, pointing out that it set an important legal precedent.
The Supreme Court did not rule on whether or not the gold mine project planned by the Minera El Desquite SA mining company in the southern province of Chubut would cause environmental damages, nor does the verdict prohibit the company from operating.
But the lawyer for the residents who mobilised against the mine, Gustavo Macayo, told IPS that with this ruling, "all legal recourse has been exhausted," and "the stoppage of the mineworks was upheld." |
