The manager was surprised by the “resistance to carry out exploration tests, not drilling” and recalled that “YPF has had exploration platforms in the Strait of Magellan for 50 years.”
“Offshore has been developed in Argentina for a long time. All this is not new and it is not the first time it has happened. What happens is that as it takes place in the south of the country, many had not been notified,” he added.
For González, “we always seek to mitigate and reduce to a minimum the danger of contamination produced by any activity carried out by man.”
“In this case, public hearings have been held and 14 State bodies have intervened that have approved this exploration and it has been stopped with a judicial ruling that has been issued in a separate hearing; that is, the judge receives a piece of paper and the next day this gives rise to a precautionary measure,” he stressed.
For this reason, he considered that “a profound debate on this issue is lacking, especially when offshore exploration already exists, when it already exists in Argentina.”
In addition, he recalled, “in Argentina we have not had spills like those that made the news about ten days ago on the coast of Peru. Most of the spills in the world are due to poor operations of the ships that transport crude oil, not because of the platforms. There is no history of such things happening.”
“What is being sought with the exploration is to be certain about what some preliminary studies say that indicate that there are hydrocarbons in that area”full.
Last week the federal judge from Mar del Plata Santiago Martin it had suspended the progress of the seismic prospecting 300 kilometers from the coast of Mar del Plata at the request of the resources presented by the mayor of General Pueyrredón, Guillermo Montenegro; the Greenpeace Foundation and the Organization of Self-Convoked Environmentalists.
Yesterday, his pair Alfredo Lopez authorized offshore hydrocarbon exploration operations by accepting the appeal of the National Government to the precautionary measure.
Source: Ambito
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