My Natural Country

Our legislation should put emphasis on creating a new environmental policy to encourage its legal and institutional framework. After a long time we hope to have a Ministry of the Environment, and although we are seeing progress in these areas, is important that we keep getting better in this materia.

We need more transparent information, giving space to reports and work with the community. These are facts as Pascua-Lama and Hydro-Aysén that we show how studies of environmental impact assessment (SEIA) are not considered or seen as a tape which always earns more commercial vision taht the environment and people.

Actually there are 'Public-Private Tables' to promote dialogue between representatives of both areas and discuss the SEIAs. These tables are integrated with representatives of CONAMA, and the CNC (National Chamber of Commerce) among other.

This Tables are including other institutions related to trade development. It is strange and unreliable that the Table, discuss the SEIA and its quality (more business vision that enviroment vision).

A change in this politics, will generate more citizen participation, transparency and reliability of the information, more consideration to the SEIA, higher penalty in case of company are violating the law.

''This is like rats worry and discuss by care its cheese''.