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Peru's Kuczynski wants to relax air standards to spur refining

2016-07-14 01:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Peru's President-elect Pedro Pablo Kuczynski called Peru's air quality standards "unrealistic" on Wednesday and proposed lowering them to spur investments in smelters that would boost the country's key mineral exports. Kuczynski, a 77-year-old former investment banker who will take office on July 28, said the value of Peru's mining exports could rise 25 percent solely through greater smelting and refining capacity. In a speech to farmers in the town of Ica, he said "unrealistic" environmental...

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