On June 11, PBI-Mexico posted: “Today we were accompanying the communities that are asking for the definitive closure of the Cholula landfill due to the environmental impacts in their concentration in front of the PROFEPA headquarters in Mexico City.”
Voices in Movement has also tweeted:
Municipios Puebla reports: “Residents of Puebla demonstrated this Tuesday outside the Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (Profepa) in Mexico City to demand the definitive closure of the Intermunicipal Sanitary Landfill that is located on the road to Calpan 4702, Fraccionamiento Maravillas de San Pedro Cholula and is owned by the company Pro-Faj Hidrolimpieza.”
That article adds: “Alejandro Torres, one of the people who protested and blocked Insurgentes Avenue and Félix Cuevas, in front of Profepa, in Benito Juárez, said that for 11 years the open-air dump has been operating and has contaminated land and water with leachate. They stated that although Profepa put closure seals because Pro-Faj Hidrolimpieza has failed to comply with guidelines, the workers of the landfill removed them. Those affected also demand a ‘restitution plan’ and that ‘not one more kilo of garbage be received’ and affirmed that ‘they are already carrying out reforestation campaigns to sow life where they sowed death.’”
Angulo7 also reports: “The residents of the Union of Towns and Villages against the Landfill, in Mexico City, held a protest at the Environmental Protection Agency (Profepa) to demand that their demands be met due to the lack of response from state authorities.”
That article continues: “Juan Carlos Flores Solís, one of the representatives, commented that there is a resolution from a judge to an amparo trial in which the agency is ordered to verify if the corrective measures imposed have been complied with, as well as if the useful life has concluded, which will have to be carried out during this week. However, he accused that Profepa ‘does not commit itself’ by arguing that a procedure has to be followed, despite the fact that there is a court order and evidence has been given that the landfill cells are saturated and should be closed definitively, for which reason he committed himself to attend to said request.”
And Oro Noticias Puebla notes: “The company ProFaj Hidro Limpieza, in charge of the operation of the Cholula landfill, filed at least five complaints against the group of residents who have not allowed the operation of the landfill for almost three months. This was revealed by the head of the office of the Ministry of the Environment of Puebla, Norma Sandoval Gómez, who indicated that the ‘social’ conflict is the only thing that prevents 21 municipalities from depositing their waste in the Cholula landfill.”
Flores Solis comments: “On the one hand, we must be attentive to any repressive action that may be taken, we will wait for the inspection to take place this week, the five-day term for the company’s arguments and then, what we consider, the repositioning of the closure seals.”
We continue to follow this.
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