“We want to ask the government to take care of nature in an integral way. We have an exaggerated environmental crisis and for this reason we need an environmental policy that guarantees sustainability, the protection of natural assets in the face of megaprojects that are being considered, such as the bitcoin city,” he said. to the press one of the leaders of the march, Rodolfo Calles.
President Najib Bukele promotes the construction of “Bitcoin City” in Conchagua180 km east of the capital, very close to the volcano of the same name, which includes raising a plant geothermal to supply power to the city.
To carry out the project, the government has pending an issue of bonds in bitcoin equivalent to 1,000 million dollars.
In September 2021, bitcoin was accepted by El Salvador as legal tender alongside the dollar, adopted more than two decades ago.
“Bitcoin City is going to have a severe impact because it is going to demand drinking water and in the east of the country that is a problem. In addition, where it will be built, it will have an environmental impact on natural resources,” said Calles.
The activists also said they feared the impact on the environment of several urban development projects in the northwestern outskirts of San Salvador, where houses are being built in areas where there are Bookings aquifers
“We are going to suffer this environmental impact in the medium and long term when drinking water is scarce and we have nowhere to take the liquid for the population,” said Morena Murillo, another of the organizers of the march.
Source: Ambito
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