Venezuela studying environmental effect of proposed Beal site
Venezuela's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is moving to study the environmental implications of a satellite launch site in the Waini area in Guyana, according to the Caracas daily, El Nacional. An article in Wednesday's edition of the newspaper said that Enrique Planchart, management representative of the office for frontiers in the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs had made this statement during an intervention in a conference on security held in Caracas. The concern is about how the launch site to be set up by Beal Aerospace Technologies will affect the Waini, which is in the north of the reclamation zone. Planchart told the conference that the Guyana government had not officially informed the Venezuelan government about the issue and the only references Venezuela had had were reports in the Guyanese press. "What interests us is the environmental danger which that could cause," El Nacional quoted Planchart as saying. He is also said to have expressed concern about the impact on the ecosystem and the region known as the Orinoco Delta. Guyana's Foreign Minister, Clement Rohee, when asked recently about the implications of the satellite launch site for the proposed environmental treaty between Guyana and Venezuela, had said the two things were not related.
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