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The Attorney General’s Office reported on Monday that it asked the State Council to declare null the rules that established the criteria and procedures for the exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons in unconventional deposits, including ‘fracking’.
This, he indicated, “because they are not compatible with the principles of precaution and sustainable development established in the Constitution.”
These are decrees 3004 of 2013 and resolution 90341 of 2014.
“Having abundant scientific evidence and information with multiple edges of the risks and irreversible damages to the water resource and, in general, to the environment that may be compromised with the practice of exploration and exploitation of unconventional deposits, it is clear that the standards demanded allow the development of an activity that can have serious and irreversible consequences for human health and that causes damage to groundwater and surface waters, “the document reads.
For this reason, adds the Public Ministry, “the practice that is intended to be implemented is not compatible with the principle of sustainable development foreseen in the Political Constitution.”
The control body, when rendering an opinion before the Third Section of the Council of State, asked to apply the precautionary principle taking into account that there is a danger of damage to the environment, especially the contamination of groundwater and surface water, the increase in seismic activity in the places where the practice takes place, and a potential damage to human health.
And finally, he warned that if the damage occurred, it would be irreversible, taking into account that Colombia does not have a reliable baseline of environmental and hydrological information, nor monitoring and control capacity for it, nor access to environmental, geological, information, geophysics, geochemistry and seismic.
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