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Sunday 15 December 2019 – 1:04 PM
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Sunday 15 December 2019 – 1:04 PM
In a forest, a virgin broke out of the majestic oil pumps as a legendary rook, while the bright yellow flame emanates from an adjacent gas well, and a lake of fuel waste accumulates in the vicinity, and among all this the tribesmen pay the Argentine economy a tax on their health and environment.
According to “France 24,” the Vacumors spot from the Patagonia Forest is located on the second largest gas supplier in the world and the fourth largest oil supplier as well, which makes it the focus of the Argentine government with a faltering economy and international exploration companies aspiring to increase profits.
On the other hand, the region is home to the “Mapash” tribes, where their spokesperson, “Lorena Bravo” says: “They come to the authority of the state and burn the land beneath us without calculating the consequences, nor that there are people inhabiting the place.”
The Mapache protests the method used to extract oil, as it destroys their historical habitat and their usual way of living.
“One day, that fuel will run out and nothing will be left for us except for a polluted wasteland,” Bravo said.
The “Vacamorda” land extends over an area of 30 thousand kilometers on Patagonia between the states of “Mendoza”, “Nukoan”, “Rio Negro” and “La Pampa”, and it represents a source for 43% of Argentina’s oil output by about 505 thousand barrels per day and 60% of the output Natural gas.
Despite the prosperity of a city called Argentine Anelli from the heart of the desert, which has a population of 8,000, and is carried out by luxury hotels and casinos, but the tax destroyed the lands of green Mapash nearby.
“Jorge Nahol,” director of the Mapash State in Nukon Prefecture, says: “Pumping oil in a fluid pressure manner conflicts with our inherent rights to our home because we were not consulted and that lake of oil only brought us death and pollution until livestock initially were born with strange deformations.”
The recent excavation campaign left its impact on the fruit crops in the nearby villages of “Alan Fernandez Ouro”, bearing in mind that these villages were originally for the Mabash, but they were displaced from the end of the 19th century, to be replaced by white race farmers and the region becomes the heart of apple cultivation for the country.
Professor Augustine Gonzales, professor at the Argentine National University, says that excavations have a long history in Argentina, but they have always been carried out in uninhabited areas, but the wave of exploitation during the last 7 years has approached the areas of exploration, habitats and agricultural lands.
He adds that over the past 3 decades, exploration activities have led to the destruction of 20,000 hectares of apple tree, and this has implications for climate change, as one hectare of apple tree in that it absorbs 120 kilos of carbon dioxide annually.
Mariano Laven, the mayor of Fernandez Oro, opposes the activities of extracting natural gas by compressing liquids due to its impact on the crops of pears, apples and vines that did not become abundant recently, while Lavigne seeks to push legislation prohibiting the method of compressing liquids, stressing that the hydraulic method is the only Safe gas extraction.
On the compensation that the state gives to the affected farmers, Laven says that the environmental damage is greater than them, adding: “We prefer apples and pears in oil money.”
The oil extraction activities left their impact even on the residential cities “Xuzal Benito”, whose residents complain of the cracking of the walls and floors of their homes, which led the government to demolish 3 of the houses to move their residents to other areas.
“It started 3 years ago for the walls to crack and parts to fall,” Ms. Sindophel, the mother of two, said. “We live in an oil field now and they have to tell us about it and let us know its impact on us.”
“Everything changed, several houses were demolished, others were cracked because of the vibrations of the drilling machines, and children with breathing problems and areas of vegetables and fruits are now empty,” says farmer Roxana Valverd, a mother of 3 children.
She added: “We want to move, but to where. The oil companies surround us from everywhere and staying in another place is very expensive.”
https://www.france24.com/en/20191212-fracking-leaves-heavy-footprint-in-argentina-s-patagonia
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