Bill that would stop 100-year mining permit near San Joaquin River fails

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A measure introduced by Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula aimed astatine stopping a century-long mining task successful Fresno County did not marque it retired of committee Monday afternoon.

That mining task would drill a 600-foot heavy pit adjacent the San Joaquin River successful Fresno County.

Arambula introduced a bill, AB1425, which went earlier the Natural Resources Committee successful Sacramento this afternoon.

It would person disqualified gathering materials institution CEMEX's projected 100-year mining enlargement task utilizing hard stone mining, blasting and drilling that heavy pit.

CEMEX is simply a rock, soil and gravel mining cognition and presently runs a works that crushes materials utilized successful the gathering industry.

The San Joaquin River Parkway and Conservation Trust has been powerfully opposed to the task due to the fact that of it's imaginable interaction connected the environment.

The nonprofit held a municipality hallway precocious that hundreds attended and encouraged radical to marque the travel up to Sacramento this afternoon.

Action News reached retired to CEMEX but did not perceive backmost earlier this communicative aired.

Last month, the institution sent america a connection saying it is committed to biology restoration and wildlife extortion done its reclamation program for the site.

A typical from CEMEX besides spoke against Arambula's measure during Monday's hearing.

The committee volition reconsider the measure successful January but astatine this clip the members decided since the biology study is not implicit yet, it is excessively aboriginal to act.

The task is inactive moving done the process laid retired successful the California Environmental Quality Act. The results could forestall the mining task oregon could let it to determination forward.

Activists accidental the assemblage effort to halt it volition continue.

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