
Mining Camp in Veladero, province of San Juan, Argentina. Source: Wikimedia Commons. All Rights Reserved.
In November 2017, the Argentine Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Sergio Bergman, declared at COP23 that “all (environmental) laws are valid and will not be changed (…) The information going around is just gossip: it does not come from the government, and there is no ground for debate. The gossip (…) is just something that came out after a meeting with the mining representatives, that’s all”.