The Guatemalan Ministry of Energy and Mines decided to revoke the license it had granted in early 2020 to the Rocja Pontilá hydroelectric project, in Coban, Alta Verapaz.
The MEM followed in MARN's footsteps, since on 6 March the repeal of Ministerial Agreement 019-2020 was published in the Diario de Centroamérica. The official publication specifies that "... the final authorizations to use goods in the public domain are made based on the qualification of the application presented and this must contain at least the study of the Environmental Impact Assessment, approved by the corresponding environmental entity, and that in accordance with the cited resolutions of the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources the validity by which the Environmental Impact Study was approved was suspended .... which reduces the legal certainty of the administrative actions issued by this Ministry."
The document adds that it is agreed "... To revoke Ministerial Agreement number 019-2020 dated January 13, 2020 issued by this Ministry and published in the Diario de Centroamérica on January 27, 2020."
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Arguing that the requirements established by law to issue a license were not met, the authorities in Guatemala decided to suspend the environmental permit for the Rocja Pontila Central hydroelectric project.
In Guatemala, a group of deputies filed an unconstitutionality action against the ministerial agreement approving the Rocja Pontila hydroelectric project.
The authorization for the hydroelectric plant, owned by the Pontila Integrated Development Project and planned to be built on the Icbolay River in Alta Verapaz, was issued on January 13, 2020.
The Constitutional Court has temporarily suspended the environmental license granted to the 40 MW Rocja Pontilá hydroelectric project located in Cobán, Alta Verapaz.
The Court's decision is based on a case filed by members of the communities in the area near the lagoon of Lachúa, who argue that the Ministry of Environment granted permission to develop the project "anomalously."
The Environmental Impact Study has been presented for the construction of a 40 MW hydro station called "Central Project Rocjá Pontila" in the department of Alta Verapaz.
The company Proyecto de Desarrollo Integral Pontila S.A presented the environmental impact study to build a hydroelectric project in the Community of Rocjá Pontila, Municipality of Coban, Alta Verapaz.
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