While mining company Industrias Infinito, subsidiary of Canadian transnational company Infinito Gold Ltd, states in its website that Crucitas will not contaminate the area and that they will take every measure to comply with environmental regulations, the inhabitants of Ciudad Quesada wrote a list with 26 reasons that prove the company wrong.

This list was presented last week to court and states that the company didn´t comply with the required environmental impact assessment and that it will use cyanide, which “represents a serious risk for the environment which hasn´t been fully assessed”.

The letter also states that “this is not the first case of environmental non compliance in Crucitas company” and that this mining project will “cause two aquifers, one superficial and the other regional to break, which environmental impacts have only been assessed at a local level, not taking into account the hydro-ecological basin and long term effects”.

The letter also states that “Crucitas company has reported that they will bring huge amounts of income to the country”. However, the balance between environmental costs and economic benefits should take into consideration a series of elements which have not been included in the cost-benefit analysis and which finally concludes that the net benefits of the project for the country would be very little, and in the long term, even negative”.

Finally, they point out that the project will open way for others in areas environmentally sensitive, where the “mining companies will demand the same conditions that those applied to Crucitas”.

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