The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro assured this Thursday that his Government will not sign new oil exploration and exploitation contracts because that “brings death.” This was expressed during his speech at the XXII Ibero-American Conference of Ministers of Labor closed this Thursday in Bogotá.
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“I don’t want to (sign), because I know that this signing of new exploration contracts, what they entail, within 10 or 15 years, is that all of us present here, our children and our grandchildren, will be exposed to death.“said the head of state at the conference of the Organization of American States (OAS), in which Spain was the guest country.
Petro has shown himself to be a firm defender of the environment and opponent of extractive economies and fossil fuels.which he says will lead to the extinction of humanity.
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Regarding what Petro expressed, the academic and former Minister of Commerce and Finance José Manuel Restrepo said that “For a country like Colombia, not signing new gas and oil exploration contracts means economic suicide.”
In a post on his X account, Restrepo said that Petro’s decision puts at risk 5.6% of GDP, 20% of tax revenues, 35% of foreign direct investment, 40% of Colombian exports and 80% of royalties from which the social and productive investment of the country’s departments lives.
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This puts at risk the “economic and fiscal sustainability of the nation and its departments,” added the former minister, who recalled that Colombia only generates 0.6% of the world’s greenhouse gases.
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“Considering that we have to die of economic starvation in Colombia to become the ‘martyrs of humanity’ because of what other nations in the world stop doing environmentally on the issue,’ concluded Restrepo, who added that “a transition is always possible orderly and responsible energy, being clear about the alternatives for survival in the short and medium term and that is not clear today.
EFE
