The study "Impact of Enterprise Veladero and Pascua Lama on Water Resources of the Province of San Juan", published by the Foundation
Centre for Human Rights and Environment (ECHR) in Argentina found that Canadian miner Barrick Gold river pollution involved in its Pascua Lama and Veladero.
According to the data, the concentration of heavy metals in different monitoring points established to lead and mercury during 2009 exceeded 13 times the maximum value of the baseline, which violates the company's commitment in the Environmental Impact Study.
As stated in the report, the villagers of Jáchal, adjacent to the project Veladero, have been ill and die from cancer since 2005, he entered the venture mining operations.
addition, the data which show that concentrations of heavy metals increased dramatically since the start of construction of Pascua Lama in 2009, a project that would take two years and planned operations to be three times larger than Veladero .
The location of the projects the community is impossible to extract the water samples, so CEDHA required data to the authorities, who after a year, after pressure from the Ombudsman, provided the public information that is not even information generated by the Treasury, but was generated from the monitoring of the same company.
Lucio Cuenca, director of the Latin American Observatory for Environmental Conflicts (OLCA) argues in this connection that " the difficulty of access to information is one of the most blatant collusion of interests between the company and the authorities, against community interests. "
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