Minister of Energy and Mines, Eleodoro Mayorga said on Thursday that in the coming days, the government enacted new environmental regulations for the mining and metallurgical activities that will lead to sustainable development of the sector under socio-environmental considerations.
SNMPE director Jose Miguel Morales, said it is important that any regulation is agreed to finalize standards that can be met, and enable investment in certain sectors, which has been positive coordination between the Ministries of Energy and Mines and the environment.
“We must welcome the willingness to coordinate the two ministers involved to implement this regulation was very old, 1993, and had to be modernized,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal said yesterday that the next promulgation of new environmental regulations for mining and metallurgical activities, highlights the importance of working together in the industry with the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM) to achieve sustainable investments.
Morales said the country showed a significant expansion in recent years because it gave him the opportunity to grow the private sector, so it must be given the importance it deserves.
“You can not stop or investments to the country, considering that the first crime against the environment is poverty, so we have to fight this scourge,” he said.
He said that there is expectation for the publication of environmental regulation to boost investment, as it will enable the mining sector to work under certain rules that can be met. The mining sector in the past five years has made the country more than 22,000 million soles in canon and royalties.
