{"id":34074,"date":"2023-09-06T17:10:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T15:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catapa.be\/?p=34074"},"modified":"2023-09-06T17:10:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T15:10:46","slug":"mining-project-colpayoc-gold-or-water-the-last-access-to-clean-drinking-water-in-cajamarca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catapa.be\/en\/mining-project-colpayoc-gold-or-water-the-last-access-to-clean-drinking-water-in-cajamarca\/","title":{"rendered":"Mining project Colpayoc: Gold or water? The last access to clean drinking water in Cajamarca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Friday 7th May, in the central Plaza de Armas, Cajamarca, communities and social organizations, including the Frente de Defensa Ambiental de Colpayoc, convened a press conference denouncing and rejecting the <\/span><b>gold mining project Colpayoc, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">owned by the Canadian mining company Estrella Gold S.A.C<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that is being pushed forward in the province of Chetilla. Community leaders and environmental defenders from across the province claim they are not being included or heard in the process, and will take to the streets to defend their territories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34077 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catapa.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/1.png?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\u201cChetillanos rechazan proyecto minero\u201d. Copyright: CONACIPE \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catapa.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/1.png?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catapa.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/1.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Protest December 2022 against the Colpayoc mining project. \u201cChetillanos rechazan proyecto minero\u201d. Copyright: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/conacipe.org\/chetilla-campesinos-rechazan-instalacion-del-proyecto-minero-colpayoc\/2725\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CONACIPE<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The province of Chetilla is the one of the last remaining areas of indigenous quechua speakers in the region of Cajamarca, and is also the poorest province. According to the mining companies <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/siar.regioncajamarca.gob.pe\/documentos\/ficha-tecnica-ambiental-proyecto-exploracion-colpayoc\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">own assessment of the project<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, around 83% of the population within the area of impact earn less than 300\/S (around 75 euros) a month. In addition, 33% of the population have not finished primary school, and 13% are illiterate. Clearly, this is a community that is extremely vulnerable to exploitation by mining companies and the state apparatus, promising jobs and economic development, as long as they sacrifice their right to clean drinking water for their children and animals on which they depend. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-34080 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catapa.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/4.png?resize=640%2C426&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Delegation of JASS (Service and Sanitation Management Board) Ronquillo protesting Colpayoc, Press Conference in the Plaza De Armas, Cajamarca 7th May 2023. Source: CATAPA\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catapa.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/4.png?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catapa.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/4.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catapa.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/4.png?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catapa.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/4.png?resize=1536%2C1023&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catapa.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/4.png?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catapa.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/4.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Een delegatie van JASS (Service and Sanitation Management Board) Ronquillo protesteert tegen Colpayoc, Persconferentie op Plaza De Armas, Cajamarca 7 mei 2023. Bron: CATAPA<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The impact of Colpayoc could be catastrophic for the communities not only located in the immediate vicinity of the mine, but also those living nearby.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/soltvperu.com\/oposicion-explotacion-minera-cajamarca\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 30% of the city of Cajamarca, some 150,000 citizens, depend on rivers originating within the Crisnejas and Jequetepeque river basins for clean drinking water.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just recently in May, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-65518526\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">27 people died in a gold mine fire in Arequipa<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Gold mining also accounts for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wedocs.unep.org\/bitstream\/handle\/20.500.11822\/29830\/GMAKF_EN.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">38% of all global emissions of mercury<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which causes<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/annalsofglobalhealth.org\/articles\/10.1016\/j.aogh.2016.12.005\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> debilitating long term illnesses<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> amongst mine workers and local populations living within the vicinity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34083 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catapa.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/3.png?resize=640%2C426&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Photo of the La Esperanza gold mine, Arequipa, Peru where 27 miners died in a fire this May 2023. Source: AFP\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catapa.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/3.png?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catapa.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/3.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catapa.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/3.png?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photo of the La Esperanza gold mine, Arequipa, Peru where 27 miners died in a fire this May 2023. Source: AFP<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CATAPA supports the Right to Say No of the communities of Colpayoc. To solve the climate crisis, we must search for and implement just solutions that work in harmony with people and planet. We cannot continue sacrificing our right to water and breathable air for the profits of a few multinational mining companies that are intent on extracting maximum profits at all costs whilst destroying our communities and ways of life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>COLPAYOC WILL NOT BE EXPLOITED, WE WILL DEFEND COLPAYOC<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday 7th May, in the central Plaza de Armas, Cajamarca, communities and social organizations, including the Frente de Defensa Ambiental de Colpayoc, convened a press conference denouncing and rejecting the gold mining project Colpayoc, owned<br \/><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/catapa.be\/en\/mining-project-colpayoc-gold-or-water-the-last-access-to-clean-drinking-water-in-cajamarca\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":34077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[489,1182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-peru","category-right-to-say-no"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mining project Colpayoc: Gold or water? 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