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In the area of international bridge “General San Martín”, between the header and West National Gendarmerie, a beekeeper discovered that hundreds of thousands of bees from their hives appeared nearly a hundred dead without visible causes.
The bizarre episode was recorded a few days ago but yesterday was sampled by the Citizens Environmental Assembly and the Environmental Monitoring Plan of the Municipality, because there is a suspicion that the Botnia pulp mill UPM could be the cause of this mortality .
ARGENTINE attended the scene and spoke with the beekeeper Joseph Helf, owner of the apiary who said: “We ruled in principle that this death has occurred as a result of spraying in agriculture, since the fields are sprayed, but six or more kilometers radius of where the hives are located. ”
It also showed that each hive has about 60,000 bees in that place and he has a hundred hives: “At least 30 have died percent of all bees. On the floor were mattresses and dead bees survived only you were inside the hive. ”
What if part, Juan Veronesi, besides Assemblyman beekeeper, said “we suspect strongly the mill UPM Botnia, because we have ruled out the fumigation, since these bees are within four miles of fields that are he has poured pesticides. ”
“We know that the mill constantly emits various gases to the atmosphere and so now we will conduct studies to determine the cause of this mortality reliable,” he said.
The assembly eleven years been denouncing the gas invade the pulp mill to all living things that are around the plant. “People and animals, plants and bees … well, the whole life cycle of the region is a victim of this pollution,” said Assemblyman Raul Almeida yesterday who was also in the area of environmental disaster.
From the Environmental Monitoring Plan samples of dead bees as others that were discovered yesterday in moribund state were taken. “Now the analysis will determine what the causes. But spraying is not discarded but think the Botnia pulp mill, “he said Veronesi.
Date. On 2 April the deadline six months of negotiations that had Argentina and Uruguay to resolve the controversy over the new unilateral authorization of the neighboring country to increase the annual production of UPM pulp mill. The Uruguay River Statute establishes that period, once defeated, enables the parties to attend the International Court of Justice in The Hague. It is a mystery whether this will be the path or strategy to be adopted by the Argentina Chancellery.
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