First published on 09/15/2017, and last updated on 01/13/2018
With 14 votes in favour, the plenary of the City Council of Ibagué has approved Agreement 012 “whereby measures are to be taken for the preservation and defense of the ecological and cultural heritage of the Municipality of Ibagué” by banning mega-mining.
The document upon which the agreement is based explicitly prohibits medium and large-scale metal mining in Ibagué. Though in the second paragraph of the first article, subsistence mining activities are excluded from the ban…Click HERE to read more.
By Valentina Camacho Montealegre | @valentinacmpm
