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Weekly Report - 09 February 2012 (WR-12-06)
PERU: Anti-mining march picks up pace
Anti-mining protesters should shortly arrive outside the doors of congress having completed an 800km march to Lima from the north-western department of Cajamarca. The march serves notice that the thorny issue of the copper and gold mining project Conga, in Cajamarca, is not going away. The government of President Ollanta Humala has procrastinated over appointing three international consultants to evaluate the environmental impact assessment (EIA) of Conga, which was approved in 2010 by the previous government, but it cannot do so indefinitely. The local opposition to the mine is convinced that the government is playing for time and intends to proceed with Conga to avoid jeopardising foreign investment in Peru.
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