Although he clarified that there is no indication that they have exploitable mineral underground Venation system, the Secretary of Industry, Commerce and Mining of the Province, Santiago Cairo, did not rule in the future could be some kind of study in this sense.

The officer was in Delhi to attend a Business Roundtable, where he accepted to talk with this newspaper about the project in June this year the governor Daniel Sicily sent to the Legislature to regulate and encourage mining and oil and gas research in the territory Buenos Aires.

In this framework, said the rule does not point to enable mines indiscriminately throughout the province.
“Investigations were always mine. The draft Hydrocarbons Law of the Province of Buenos Aires has to do with something else: namely, to address the fact that the province did not own legislation regarding the regime of oil “, he said.

“The Province has been making long mining explorations in the basin of the Colorado River and the Rio Salad, and here in the southwest, in Lapidary. These are exploration licenses granted by the direction of mining, but the holding itself does not yet exist. ”
- So, Cairo is discarded or not the possibility of carrying out mining or oil exploration in the region of Torques, or in the basins of the Colorado and Salad Queue?
“However, studies may be done throughout the province because they are not invasive, or require, for example, buy a specific territory or something. Studies are of geological exploration, and involve taking pictures from satellites to conduct studies of magnetism. No direct intervention, i.e., no hole or anything dynamite.
- And as such, exploitation has been positive?
“When the first scan gives some proved attractive to a private company, is another story. There already have to assess whether we are talking about areas that can be exploited from the point of view mine or not. In some of them is impossible.
- What concerns the people of the region Venation system without fail is to have a scan to find some kind of wealth in the ground, and that is resulting in a holding. Are not they supposed that by making a mining exploration, we have given the second step, which is the farm?
“Not necessarily. It is true that when you do a scan, make an investment, but in the Province have been many explorations have resulted in holdings, which is the second step. This is related to many factors, such as the performance of each site found. In addition, obviously the environmental factor is relevant: there are areas where the province is not prepared to have a farm. ”
- Are you aware of a bill introduced by Senator James Nard Elli, which provides absolute protection against any kind Torques Park mining?
“Yes.
- Do you agree with this project?
“In principle there is no indication that the district Torques, and time in the chain of Sierra de la Venting, there is potential for mining, with which we have no problem. In addition, the whole area is a provincial park.

“There is a kind of hysteria from the mining, coal mining, environmental pollution and exploitation of hydrocarbons. However, the fact is that there is nothing of this in the province of Buenos Aires. The province now has no coal, because coal you have when you are actually exploiting. ”
- What happens is that the “hysteria” of people emerged from the presentation of the draft law by the governor …
“But really, what is served at the request of the governor was in the drafting of a policy framework that did not exist in the province of Buenos Aires. Before, if you made a hole in the ground to find water, and gas was suddenly did not have a law to tell him what to do. That is what we are trying to solve. “