The Government expressed its hope that between March and April the Fire Law presented to Congress should be approved in Congress.
This was announced last week in Concepción, the Minister of Agriculture, Espetab Valenzuela.
The Structural Fire Law that the Government presented last September was approved by the Housing and Urban Planning Commission, and also by the Treasury Commission of the Chamber of Deputies. Thus, it remains for it to be approved by the plenary session, before continuing on to the Senate. In this text are the regulatory plans, new powers to Conaf and the municipalities for the supervision of the territory; definitions of critical infrastructure, mandatory firewalls and more.
“Yesterday Senator (Gastón) Saavedra publicly committed that we have to pass this law in March, April at the latest,” the Secretary of State said in statements to Radio ADN.
“We have to continue advancing in the fire law. I had a commitment to push it, it is finishing its process in the Chamber of Deputies. There is the structural solution, urban-rural interface, with support for small farmers (farmers) so that they can comply with the new demands that CONAF is going to make to them after the fire law is approved, so that the areas are safer from megafires in conditions extremes: temperatures over 30°, winds over 30 km/h, which generate these fire tsunamis, which caused so much damage in Sydney, Hawaii and Quilpué,” said Valenzuela.
González calls for short law
According to the environmentalist deputy, Félix González, the Government bill will require a long debate that may not have an effect until next summer. For this reason, he called to suspend the legislative recess so that senators can vote on his proposal for a Short Law against fires, which, if it comes into force soon, will prevent tragedies like the one in the Valparaíso Region.
The project was entered in March 2023 by himself and seeks to give powers to all municipalities, in conjunction with Conaf, to force the creation of firebreaks or to carry them out directly, in order to set limits on forest plantations and separate them from populated centers. The project also contemplates the prohibition of forest plantations within the urban radius.
“There are many sectors in our country that coexist with forest plantations and can suffer the same consequences that just happened in the Valparaíso Region,” said the Penquista deputy, who on Saturday went to the outskirts of Congress to ask the parliamentarians to ask suspend recess to vote on your bill through a special session.
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