Argentina's Congress passes bill allowing mining in glacier regions
Argentina's Chamber of Deputies approved an amendment to the 2010 Glacier Law with 137 votes in favor, 111 against, and 3 abstentions after nearly 12 hours of debate. The bill, backed by President Javier Milei, shifts responsibility for defining protected glacier areas from a national scientific institute to provincial governments, making it easier to mine for metals like copper, lithium and silver in frozen parts of the Andes mountains. Thousands of environmental protesters demonstrated outside parliament, with some clashes with police and arrests of Greenpeace activists.
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