Cancun, QR. The Ninth District Court based in Cancun denied the Sac-Tun mine, a subsidiary of the US firm Vulcan Materialsprotection against the closure of the land The Rositaone of the four that the company owns in Solidaridad for the extraction of stone material.
This is file 567/2022 of the indirect amparo proceeding promoted by the transnational, through which it requested to annul the closure imposed since last May 5 by the Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (Profepa), allegedly lacking valid permits for mining exploitation.
Sources inside the company have revealed that there are at least six other protections that Sac Tun He has promoted before federal courts, but on at least two occasions they have denied the suspension of the act of authority against him.
The previous refusal dates back to August 4, in which a federal court dismissed the appeal against the revocation of the Punta Venado port concession, from where the company ships the stone material it exports to the United States.
In addition to this, just at the beginning of August, Vulcan Materials promoted a claim for protection against the constant overflights carried out by the Ministry of National Defense on the land where limestone is extracted for export to the United States.
The amparo, with file number 676/2022, was filed with the courts in cancun on July 14, 2022. The Second District Court admitted the request for processing and set the date for September 1 to determine whether or not to grant the provisional suspension of the act claimed by the company, that is, the overflights over the Sac Tun quarryformerly Calica.
The company denounces that the constant flights and takeoffs by the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) are intimidating, under the pretext of permanently supervising those who work in the mine, which has been closed since May of this year. along with the port.
Sac-Tun is the stone material mine that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has pointed out as the cause of an “ecological catastrophe” a few meters from the Caribbean Sea, in the heart of the Cancun-Playa del Carmen tourist corridor.
The matter was even denounced before the United Nations Organization (UN), by the head of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat), María Luisa Albores González, arguing that this act is in defense of Mexican territory.
The company has held an international arbitration against the Government of Mexico since 2018, after the land use of two of the properties they own in Playa del Carmen was modified, which prevents them from using them as quarries for stone extraction. limestone and its export to the United States.
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