2024-03-14 08:44:00
Diary Note One
The engineer Mario Capello, one of those mentioned to replace Flavia Royon in the Undersecretariat of Mining of the Nations, questioned the statements of the President of Bodegas de Argentina, Walter Bressia, about the use of water in mining development.
Capello, a native of Santa Fe who is based in San Juan and head of the Sarmiento Group that brings together professionals from the mining industry, treated the winemaker’s statement during the Bodegas lunch during the Autumn as pathetic.
“We hope that mining development will take place in areas that do not affect natural, visual or social resources,” he said during the speech shown by Diario UNO.
“Agriculture is dependent on water, both in terms of quantity and quality. We ask that rationality prevail in authorizing future mining developments,” he said, sparking controversy.
President of Bodegas de Argentina, Walter Bressia.
Pathetic and pathetic
With those words, Capello qualified Bressia’s statements. “He goes against what he knows,” he told the Mining and Development website.
“Their painful statements reveal a hidden reality: the mining sector pays salaries that are triple those of winemakers and vineyard owners. They are only very significant in generating foreign currency compared to other economic sectors,” he said.
Regarding the use of water in mining and its coexistence with other activities, the Sarmiento Group led by Capello presented in San Juan (and shared it at the Metallurgical Forum in Mendoza) a work so that some of the royalties generated by mining are destined for the water. works.
“Explain why in Chile, the largest producer of copper in the world, what he says is going to happen if the mining industry is developed in Mendoza, in the West, where it is already developed, that did not happen?” he asks. Capello.
“Tell the country how on the other side of the mountain range they export 60 million boxes of fresh grapes at an average of 25 dollars per box, which represents more income for Chile than the entire grape complex for us, as a clear graph of the. the publication of the INDEC,” said the engineer to question Bressia’s words.
Conflict between viticulture and mining
“Argentina must be left behind. The lie that seeks to scare is that of permanent subsidies because the amount produced is not enough to pay for inputs and salaries. The country with unlimited political power and privileges, and the majority of Mendoza and Argentina become impoverished without stopping,” said the professional.
Of course, Capello treated Bressia as a “musician of the walls” and asked him to “explain to the wine-producing provinces why the country has a powerful viticulture that exports 58 billion dollars a year of its mineral wealth with flow from the mining operations.”
For Capello, the difference lies elsewhere, “in something much simpler and more exposed: if a miner decides with his family, he can attend such important festivals as the grape harvest and go on vacation.”
And he closed: “In every country, there is viticulture and mining. Only in Argentina do sectoral interests resort to fear and lies to present them as adversarial activities. It is time to start walking a path of development, where possibilities are made available for more and better jobs.”
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