Bullas by Punta Venado

Forced by the international judges who deliberate in the arbitration filed by Vulcan Materials, the Mexican government had to remain silent. And the morning ceased to be the space to attack its Mexican subsidiary, SacTum, accused of alleged environmental crimes.

The damage, however, is already done. After six months of closure and without Profepa or Semarnat resolving the requests to reopen the bank of stone materials and the port located in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, the directors of the Alabama company reported losses of 20 million to their investors. dollars, in the middle of 2022. They will report publicly on the situation in the third quarter of the year next Wednesday, November 2.

Vulcan Materials has been in dispute with the Mexican government for five years. By mandate of its board of directors, the board headed by Thomas Hill must take the “right path” and maintain good relations with local governments, as well as the residents and communities where they operate.

Even before taking their dispute to international arbitration, Calica changed its name and became SacTum.

The closure of the Vulcan quarry and the resumption of the Mayan Train works suspended by court order forced an extreme decision: that the federal government hand over two concessions for the exploitation of limestone in the Quintana Roo area. These new quarries called “ABC Cancun Stone Materials Utilization Bank” and “Limestone Rock Utilization in the San Francisco property”. Currently in Quintana Roo there are five private concessions, but two were authorized for the exploitation of limestone in the water table by the current administration.

The Mexican government is against the clock in the construction of the Mayan Train. Different environmentalists reported to Profepa the extraction of stone material, now not in Calica, property of Vulcan Materials, but in the jungle area of ​​Chemuyil, located 17 kilometers north of Tulum and approximately 45 kilometers south of Playa del Carmen.

Vulcan Material went to international arbitration, protected by the T-MEC, just four years ago. The Mexican government proposed to modify his business plan to open a tourist center on the property. Faced with the refusal of the American company, it announced that it would go to the UN, but none of its instances has the competence to deal with complaints of environmental damage.

The collective action that residents of the Xel-ha region promoted against the SacTum company had the support of a team of legal advisors who work for the Legal Advisor of the Presidency. And —according to the contested party— it came as a reaction to the ruling against the Mexican government in the arbitration filed by Vulcan Materials for the closure of the Punta Venados quarry and port. Payment for damages caused under NAFTA will continue to increase, to the extent that the US company is still unable to operate, nor deliver the limestone to its clients both in the Yucatan peninsula and in the United States.

Tatiana Clouthier had tempered the dispute and accepted a truce with Vulcan Materials, within the framework of international arbitration. Her replacement, Raquel Buenrostro, will have to resume the negotiations.

Side effects

PROMOTERS. Mariana Gómez del Campo called on those attending the Hermanos Rodríguez Autodrome to photograph the Moreno leaders and exhibit their inconsistency for attending very fifi events (Sheinbaum ditix) such as the CDMX Grand Prix. The bottle caps were not seen in the main stands, although in the Foro Sol hospitality, opinion leaders and media managers enjoyed the weekend, thanks to their sponsors.