The bench of Free Peruthrough congresswoman Margot Palacios, presented the bill that seeks to nationalize copper with the creations of the National Copper Corporation and the Las Bambas National Company SAC, which would operate in the areas where it extracts the ore MMG Las Bambas.
According to the document, the legislative initiative aims to “regulate the exploitation of natural resources copper-bearing existing in the national territory” with the purpose of guaranteeing “national ownership” of copper which is found in the subsoil of the Peruvian territory.
Also, the project of official bench It proposes that the exploration and exploitation of copper be authorized by the communities that inhabit the surface of the area to be intervened.
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National Copper Corporation and the National Las Bambas Company
The legislative initiative presented by legislator Margot Palacios establishes the creation of the National Copper Corporation. According to the proposal, this entity will have exclusivity over the exploration, exploitation, first industrialization and remediation of liabilities generated by the extraction of copper. This would also have the power to renegotiate mining contracts.
“The National Copper Corporation has under its direction, supervision and control of autonomous operational and business units, constituted with the contribution of communal, state and private capital,” they indicate in the bill.
In the same way, it proposes to constitute the National Company The Bambas SAC as an autonomous unit of the National Copper Corporation. It would intervene in the areas corresponding to the communities of Huanquire, Pumamarca, Choaquere, Chuicuni, Fuerabamba and Chila, all of them located in the province of Cotabambas (Apurímac).
Las Bambas: communities ask the Government for dialogue and reject police repression in Apurímac
The communities of Fuerabamba, Huancuire, Chila, Choaquere, Pumamarca and Chuicuni, in the province of Cotabambas (Apurímac), ratified yesterday their intention of dialogue to put an end to the Social conflict around Las Bambas, but they ask the Government not to promote police repression with the state of emergency. They made their position known through an official letter sent this Thursday to the Prime Minister Hannibal Torres.
