According to the prosecutor, oil exploration on the Argentine coast “could be seen as strategic for economic and social growth” and stated that he considers “fulfilled” that there will be a safeguard for environmental sustainability.
This Tuesday, the Ministry of the Environment called a public hearing for next October 19 in which the so-called Environmental Impact Assessment for the drilling of an exploratory well will be presented and considered, in an area of 15,000 square kilometers located at 307 kilometers from the Buenos Aires city of Mar del Plata.
The public hearing was arranged by the Climate Change Secretariat, through Resolution 10/2022 published today in the Official Gazette.
In the exhibition, which will be chaired by the Secretary of Climate Change, Cecilia Nicolini, the results of the Environmental Impact Assessment for the drilling of an exploratory well in Block CAN_100 of the North Argentina Basin will be presented.
In accordance with the provisions of the norm, the public hearing will take place on October 19 from 9 a.m.
In addition, it was arranged that registration to participate in the hearing will be available via the web from October 3 to 17, on the website of the Ministry of the Environment.
The documentation, background, reports and studies carried out within the framework of the Environmental Impact Assessment will also be published there.
Likewise, the hearing will be broadcast simultaneously through the YouTube channel of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development.
Last month, that ministry expanded the study of the impact of hydrocarbon exploration, as required by the Federal Court of Appeals of Mar del Plata to definitively authorize the project, within the framework of a case initiated by environmental organizations.
In this update, a section on Mitigation Measures and Environmental Management Plan (PGA) was included, as well as reports on direct, indirect, cumulative and synergistic impacts.
The ruling of the Chamber had ordered at the beginning of last June that the Ministry issue a new environmental impact statement complementary to the one already issued and approved by the Government at the end of last December
These conditions were set by the court that, with its ruling, had annulled a precautionary measure from last March, with which exploration in the CAN_100 block – the largest block in the North Basin of the Argentine Sea – had been stopped, as in the areas CAN_108 and CAN_114.
The legal case began with a precautionary measure requested by the mayor of General Pueyrredón, Guillermo Montenegro (Together for Change), and environmental organizations.
Source: Ambito
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