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Pronounced Ojeda Mestre environmentalist against toxic waste dump in the National Environmental Forum

cancer and only bring death Profepa should not ignore the people, said Carlos Camacho

(Correspondent), La Jornada.

Zimapán, Hidalgo. August 10. The secretary general of the International Court of Environment, Ramón Ojeda Mestre, said the hazardous waste dump being built in this county only bring "cancer and death", so called on the Ministry of Environment Government Federal and Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (Profepa) to pay attention to what happens in Zimapán. Ojeda Mestre

attended as special guest at the People's Assembly held in this city by the civic movement We Are All Zimapán, which ruled against the hazardous waste landfill, after stating that "a Bisno a few will affect all Zimapán population. "

questioned the decision of the state and federal governments, to build a waste plant here, they said that this municipality "does not produce many industrial waste" and chose it because it is far from the city where you live comfortably.

"If the deposit is so good for people, why not put it in Polanco, Los Pinos, in the socket of Pachuca, or at the ranch of a governor. Zimapán liked to pull the country away because they thought that everything would be easy, that there was information that had not courage, but employers were wrong " said.

also added that this project is driven by foreign investors, Mexican businessmen because they fear the social, environmental and health sparking construction, and did not want to enter because they did not want to take over people. "

questioned the viability of the project, after ensuring that no state has a landfill that has environmental standards, and now "what a head it is to be able to handle toxic waste, if we can not as easily, which are mere trash. "

ironically, Ojeda Mestre cited the popular phrase "you are me hearing, useless? ", referring to the federal government, which does not meet the demands of the people of Zimapán, which for more than a year initiated the mobilization of opposition to the plant.

asked if all permits are in order, as they say, why Befesa, project manager, have not uploaded to the Internet. "There are many questions and yet the government insists that the project is viable," he said.