Mined mines, the truth about the coal zone

Coal mining should not exist. Over 25 years, 52 accidents have resulted in fatalities, claiming the lives of 153 workers. This mining activity is unsustainable. And the government knows it.

More than a decade ago, the Mexican Geological Survey (SGM), an organization divided into sectors by the Ministry of Economy, marked with red crosses that the Sabinas Geological Basin has large subsoil areas and is therefore high. risk. Details of the maps are contained in Mining Mapping, which the SGM must continually update, and which must be a parameter not only for FEC coal supplier contracts, but also for permitting or disallowing labor transactions. .

However, the General Directorate of Mines, also dependent on the economy, retained and continued to issue concession rights to small producers.

By that time, 84 miners had died in 26 quarries in conditions similar to those of August 3 last year, when 10 workers were trapped by the flooding of El Pinabete, who are now known to have been mining in a mined area. .

A contrasting mountain cartography indicating “high risk” was published in the latest issue of The Process, and the fatality data is part of the records of the Pasta de Conchos Family Organization. On the other hand, it is indisputable that the 52 accidents mentioned, not counting the accidents at Pasta de Conchos or at the AHMSA mines, which are of a different type, occurred in wells located in mined areas.

In the Carboniferous region of Coahuila, what it seems is not: “pocitos”, called diminutively as if they were harmless, are mining installations that bring in millions of dollars, and small producers are not people with picks and shovels. For example, CFE contracts with brunette family floresamount to more than one thousand 200 million pesos just so far this administration.

This activity involves important cacicazgos whose names resonate in Mexico and abroad: former Pemex director Rogelio Montemayor and his brothers, big diggers; who served as President of the Energy Commission in the Senate, Armando Guadiana Tijerin and brother, are in the same.

Or, not to mention, the families associated with El Pinabete (and not the poor identified foreman who acts as a figurehead and, with all due respect, his family sells flip-flops on Facebook) are immersed in an investigation into the illegal campaign funding of the Guatemalan president. Alexander Jamatey.

Those caciques with political and economic power otherwise avoided the prohibition of the so-called “posito”. 10 years ago, when discussing labor reform, for example, there was a black hand because the approved opinion contained this prohibition, but when it was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation, it was no longer there.

There were no consequences for blurring, just as there were none in 2014, when the ban was once again established in the Energy Reform, and when it was published, it was no longer there. That is: they are strong enough to distort the far-reaching legislative process with impunity.

In relation to the above, it is surprising that President López Obrador is basing the development of this region on wells to restart coal-fired power plants as if that weren’t enough, with a low-quality bastard that seriously damaged the combustion equipment.

Today, the president’s lamentations and promises are not enough, because in his hands is a historic opportunity to guarantee non-repetition by closing these deadly traps once and for all. Though it has been known to cling and doesn’t look like it’s heading there.

ARTURO RODRIGUEZ GARCIA

RADIO GERALDO

@ARTURO_RDGZ

Source: Heraldo De Mexico

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