{"id":22116,"date":"2021-10-29T00:32:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T00:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westernlaw.org\/?p=22116"},"modified":"2021-10-30T00:34:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T00:34:04","slug":"judge-montana-deq-failed-protect-water-near-rosebud-coal-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernlaw.org\/es\/judge-montana-deq-failed-protect-water-near-rosebud-coal-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Juez: DEQ de Montana no protegi\u00f3 el agua cerca de la mina de carb\u00f3n Rosebud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>En una importante victoria para el agua limpia en Montana, un <a href=\"https:\/\/westernlaw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2021.10.29-Rosebud-MT-CWA-Order-Victory.pdf\">El juez de la corte de distrito de Montana fall\u00f3 el jueves<\/a> que el Departamento de Calidad Ambiental de Montana (DEQ) repetidamente ignor\u00f3 la ley y no protegi\u00f3 la calidad del agua de una expansi\u00f3n de la mina a cielo abierto de carb\u00f3n Rosebud cerca de Colstrip, una de las minas a cielo abierto de carb\u00f3n m\u00e1s grandes del pa\u00eds. Western Environmental Law Center, Earthjustice, Roger Sullivan y Walton Morris representaron al Montana Environmental Information Center y al Sierra Club en este caso.<\/p>\n<p>El juez dictamin\u00f3 que las leyes de Montana que rigen la miner\u00eda a cielo abierto (la Ley de recuperaci\u00f3n de minas subterr\u00e1neas y a cielo abierto de Montana) proh\u00edben que DEQ permita la miner\u00eda a cielo abierto si la empresa minera no puede garantizar que los recursos h\u00eddricos estar\u00e1n protegidos. De hecho, el tribunal determin\u00f3 que el DEQ y la Junta de Revisi\u00f3n Ambiental ignoraron la contaminaci\u00f3n existente en un arroyo que corre junto a la mina, no consideraron los impactos de otras expansiones de la mina en ese mismo cuerpo de agua e ilegalmente obligaron al p\u00fablico a demostrar que la expansi\u00f3n de la mina da\u00f1ar\u00eda la calidad del agua en lugar de requerir que la empresa minera demuestre que no da\u00f1ar\u00eda la calidad del agua.<\/p>\n<p>La mina a cielo abierto Rosebud est\u00e1 contaminando las aguas de Montana, espec\u00edficamente East Fork Armells Creek. El arroyo est\u00e1 tan contaminado que DEQ lo ha considerado deteriorado y en violaci\u00f3n de los est\u00e1ndares de calidad del agua.<\/p>\n<p>Por ley, cuando un arroyo est\u00e1 deteriorado, el DEQ puede no permitir m\u00e1s contaminaci\u00f3n en el arroyo hasta que prepare un plan para limpiarlo. DEQ ignor\u00f3 este deber por completo cuando aprob\u00f3 una expansi\u00f3n de la mina a cielo abierto Rosebud que, seg\u00fan descubri\u00f3 el propio DEQ, extender\u00eda el deterioro del arroyo por &quot;decenas a cientos de a\u00f1os&quot;. En una opini\u00f3n extremadamente detallada, el Tribunal del Distrito Judicial 16 de Montana sostuvo que los diversos argumentos inconsistentes de DEQ que intentaban excusar su continuo descuido de la contaminaci\u00f3n del agua eran arbitrarios y caprichosos, en violaci\u00f3n de la ley estatal de miner\u00eda a cielo abierto. El tribunal devolvi\u00f3 el asunto a DEQ para cumplir con la ley.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;La decisi\u00f3n bien razonada de la corte concluye que las excusas de DEQ por no proteger el agua de Montana, de hecho, no se sostienen&quot;, dijo <strong>Shiloh Hernandez, abogada de Earthjustice que realiz\u00f3 el trabajo para este caso mientras era empleada del Western Environmental Law Center<\/strong>. \u201cDEQ ahora tiene una segunda oportunidad de cumplir con la ley. Tenemos la intenci\u00f3n de hacer que la agencia cumpla con su deber legal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespu\u00e9s de a\u00f1os de compromiso administrativo de Sisyphean, la decisi\u00f3n del tribunal de distrito finalmente responsabiliza a DEQ y le exige que cumpla con su deber legal como guardi\u00e1n de la calidad del agua de Montana\u201d, dijo <strong>Erik Schlenker-Goodrich director ejecutivo del Western Environmental Law Center.<\/strong> \u201cLa orden de la corte env\u00eda un mensaje claro a MDEQ de que contin\u00faa poniendo los intereses de la industria sobre el recurso m\u00e1s importante de Montana y las personas que lo usan no volar\u00e1n\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUna vez m\u00e1s, la entidad estatal encargada de proteger la calidad del agua opt\u00f3 por proteger a una empresa minera que lleva d\u00e9cadas contaminando las aguas de la zona\u201d, dijo <strong>Anne Hedges, Directora de Pol\u00edticas del Centro de Informaci\u00f3n Ambiental de Montana<\/strong>. \u201cLos altos niveles de sales en el agua son perjudiciales para la agricultura y el medio ambiente. Sin embargo, DEQ permiti\u00f3 un aumento sustancial en los niveles de sal en un cuerpo de agua que ya est\u00e1 sobrecargado de sales. Las aguas de Montana y las personas que dependen de ellas merecen algo mejor. Es por eso que existen leyes en los libros para proteger la calidad del agua de la miner\u00eda. En lugar de seguir la ley o exigir la limpieza de la contaminaci\u00f3n, DEQ ha pasado la \u00faltima d\u00e9cada protegiendo a un contaminador a expensas de todos aquellos que dependen de las aguas de Montana\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEl agua limpia es nuestro elemento vital aqu\u00ed en Montana\u201d, dijo <strong>Summer Nelson, Directora del Cap\u00edtulo de Montana de Sierra Club<\/strong>. \u201cLa expansi\u00f3n propuesta de la mina de carb\u00f3n Rosebud aumentar\u00eda la contaminaci\u00f3n de los arroyos existentes y simplemente no proteger\u00eda la vida acu\u00e1tica vulnerable de una mayor contaminaci\u00f3n\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contactos:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Erik Schlenker-Goodrich, Centro de Derecho Ambiental Occidental, 575-751-0351, <a href=\"m&#97;&#105;&#x6c;&#x74;o&#58;&#101;&#x72;&#x69;&#x6b;s&#103;&#64;&#x77;&#x65;st&#101;&#x72;&#x6e;&#x6c;a&#119;&#46;&#x6f;&#x72;g\">eriksg@westernlaw.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shiloh Hernandez, en WELC para este caso, ahora en Earthjustice, (406) 586-9699, <a href=\"mailto:shern&#97;&#110;&#100;&#101;&#122;&#64;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#116;&#104;&#106;&#117;&#115;&#116;&#x69;&#x63;&#x65;&#x2e;&#x6f;&#x72;&#x67;\">shernandez@earthjustice.org<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an important victory for clean water in Montana, a Montana district court judge ruled on Thursday that the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) repeatedly ignored the law and failed to protect water quality from an expansion of the Rosebud coal strip mine near Colstrip, one of the largest coal strip mines in the 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