The pronvincial Senator Alfonso Coll Areco sent a bill, which was already approved in the upper house that poses an amendment to the Law on Application of Agrochemicals throughout the territory of Buenos Aires, of the enactment of this law could be fumigated to ten meters areas and twenty-urban waterways.Environmentalists across the province are on alert.
The provincial Senator Alfonso Coll Areco, is Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development of the province of Buenos Aires, and author of a bill – already passed in the Senate that sanctioned would fumigate 10 meters from urban centers .
Different environmental organizations were raised against this law. In Saladillo (Buenos Aires) members of the NGO Ecos Saladillo launched a petition rejecting the idea of Coll Areco. In the small town, they have already managed to gather more than 400 signatures, including rural producers are advocating a more sustainable way of doing agriculture warning that this law is completely unworkable.
The bill who should care for the environment and sustainable development provincial and was approved by the Senate of the province and now expects to be treated in the Chamber of Deputies, pretendemodificar law enforcement pesticides throughout the Buenos Aires area.Among other changes, it suggests that the fumigations could make ten meters in urban areas.
Gabriel Arisnabarreta, the group Ecos Saladillo, in chat with local media, said: “It is a regressive law that advances acquired rights. It is an unconstitutional law, “Saladillo is one of the districts affected by the application of agrochemicals. There is an ordinance that regulates them, but as often happens, is never fulfilled. The environmentalist acknowledged that” it is necessary to defend the current bylaw. Improve and enforce it ”
“It is a law that advances on the autonomy of municipalities and is unconstitutional because it violates Article 28 of the Provincial Constitution and 41 of the Constitution. It goes against the health of people and the environment,” he says councilman Diego Yanson, the Deliberative Council of Saladillo.
Different voices in the province are installed on alert, as the most worrying of the amendment raised by the project of Senator Coll Areco is also that you can fumigate ten meters in urban areas, that distance is also used for schools rural and only 25 meters from courses of water .
