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Twelve Greenpeace activists and a cameraman were detained on the steps of the National Congress in Buenos Aires while carrying out a protest against the reform bill to the Glaciers Law that the ruling party will seek to pass in the Senate on Thursday.
Activists gathered outside Congress dressed in suits, alluding to lawmakers, and sitting on toilets with signs reading: ‘Glaciers Law’. They also displayed a banner with the slogan: ‘Senators: don’t shit in the water’
After the performance, the Federal Police detained the environmentalists under the charge of “investigation of a crime,” according to local media reports.
The Glaciers Law reform that the ruling party hopes to pass aims to modify the environmental protection framework for water reserves in force since 2010.
In addition, it seeks to make provinces responsible for identifying and classifying which areas may be opened to the development of extractive activities such as mining, and which must be considered strategic freshwater reserves.
Greenpeace program director Diego Salas denounced in a statement that this law is “regressive and unconstitutional” and asserted that “millions of people depend on glaciers and the periglacial environment, and their access to water will be compromised.”
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