initiative of the rulers of the rulers of the Citizens Action Party, the City Council of San Joseph uttered against Open Pit Mining and against Mining project Crucitas. The motion presented was approved unanimously in Session May 11, 2010 City Council San Jose.
Following is the text of the motion
LOCAL GOVERNMENT SAN JOSE, in compliance with its environmental PLAN AND ITS CONTROLLER, AND IN THIS WARRANT AGREEMENT, IN CONNECTION WITH THE OPEN PIT MINING AND THE DRAFT SPECIFIC Crucitas IN SAN CARLOS , province of Alajuela.
WHEREAS
1. Article 50 of the Constitution of Costa Rica guarantees the right to enjoy a healthy and ecologically balanced environment and the duty of citizens to enforce that law and public institutions to guarantee it.
2. The Municipality of San José supports environmental protection and human rights and the promotion of development compatible with environmental protection in both concur with the Convention on Biological Diversity.
3. Costa Rica has chosen a sustainable development based on environmental protection and not an extractor, that our country has not been a traditional mining country and that history has taught us that the few metal mine development, have not only benefited the country or the communities where they are located, if not instead, have left a sad picture of destruction, with ample evidence that an activity is not compatible with the environment.
4. The impacts of open pit metal mining have been studied carefully and there is a worldwide trend to reject such practices.
5. The area where the project is located is of high environmental fragility and a high rate of rainfall, which incorporates additional risks even with the use of technology.
6. The obsolescence of our mining legislation and environmental law brief.
7. To date, no instrument has been known to show a positive relationship between social and environmental costs and economic benefits of development that declare the project of public interest and national interest.
8. Climate change puts humanity in a dilemma between continuing to deepen its negative impacts and generating more conditions of vulnerability, or sustainability of the human species, which compels us to seek a balance between human activities and nature conservation .
AGREES:
1. To request the Government of the Republic of the repeal of Decree 34801-MINAET declaring public interest and national convenience Crucitas mining project . Also, ask the government of Costa Rica and its institutions, to nullify all the permissions granted to grantees Crucitas mining project .
2. Ask the government of Costa Rica to be consistent with the model of sustainable development as a nation we have been preaching for many years.
3. To call the Costa Rican society to defend the environment and the Costa Rica building a just, equitable and sustainable.
4. Ask the Legislature Quick Step reform the Mining Code to prohibit mining definitely open-pit metal in our country.
5. Local Government to deliver our educational activities and information on the subject, for which will be supported by the Municipal Administration, the Environmental Commission.
6. Express our satisfaction with the decree of the President-Mrs. Laura Chinchilla Miranda, contrary to the Surface Mining and support their decision to change our laws in the mining camp to close the gates to these anti-environmental activities.
7. Disclosed by all means this agreement and call on all Local Governments to adhere lending its support to the Mother Earth.
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