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Población se opone a Puerto de Paracas: temen daño ecológico

Population opposes Puerto de Paracas: fear environmental damage

It's been about 8 years since his restaurant ended in ruins in front stirred Paracas National Reserve. Yolanda Nolasco, Restaurant Owner Dolphin Dorado, saw the investment of his family was destroyed in 2 minutes and 55 seconds-long earthquake in Pisco, on August 15, 2007. "Gradually, loaning bank, we rebuild our business, thinking about the future"He says.

This he has now in Lima. Beside there are other restaurant owners, representatives of tourist agencies, fishermen, craftsmen. All use of the word take turns to denounce something you do not find sense: the industrialization of Puerto General San Martín in the tourist Bay where they live and work.

Last week, they and the Executive Director of the NGO Mundo Azul, Stefan Austermühle, expressed concern that indicate that growth of Puerto mean, for example, a dredging sand from the sea, which currently has only ten meters depth.

"16 meters are needed so that the vessels that every large port receives can enter. For this, 2,700,000 cubic meters of mud must be removed, an amount that can complete the National Stadium twice," Austermühle says.

The representative of the NGO Mundo Azul says the displacement of this arena will create a cloud that darkens the Bay. "This will leave the water without oxygen and will lead to the death of the species. Marigold farmers will be the first affected," indicates.

David Simon, General Manager of Port Terminal Paracas-the company that won the concession of General San Martin Puerto ensures that there is misinformation in the people who believe will be fixed in the coming months.

SOURCE: Elcomercio.pe

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