"New government faces tough extractives legacy", 18 Jul 2016

...[T]he NGOs CooperAcción, Fedepaz and Grufides presented the 18th report of the Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros.. [It] makes recommendations to the new government. The commentators underlined the report's main highlight: that under the Humala government social conflicts averaged 217 in any one month, 70% of which were social/environmental.

The Kuczynski government inherits 212 active conflicts, the majority around environmental issues. The election period saw the usual acceleration of such instances...

The report emphasises the concentration of conflict in southern Peru, above all in Apurímac, and the dangers posed by the weakening of environmental controls by the outgoing Humala government. Humala’s creation of SENACE...was a promising step, but today there are no signs of any move to strengthen and develop it, or to reverse the weakening of OEFA...

Ana Leyva, director of CooperAcción, expressed concern about the growing use of Informes Técnicos Sustentatorios (ITSs), which enable investment decisions to be made in 15 days without citizen participation.

The report expresses concern about water use. The data cited say that mining uses only 2% of the available supply, but these is from 1979; Yanacocha alone uses 34% of the water supply in the watershed in which it operates...