2008-11-16 Environmentalists decry Argentina presidential vote of bill that halted $2,4 billion mine with Chile. Latin American Herald Tribune.

Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez decided to veto a glacier-protection bill that would have restricted mining and oil drilling.

Raul Montenegro is among various environmental groups that are dissappointed with the president's decision, who "has made it clear that she doesn't care about the people whose water supply comes from (glacier-fed) water basins (...)."

Fernandez had said in her decree that signing the bill would "give environmental considerations preeminence" over economic activities.

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