After the “bitter pill” in Mexicali, where complaints for water consumption and a consultation citizen canceled the construction of his new factoryConstellation Brands received federal government support to move its beer investment to Veracruz.

However, two months after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador psummarize the start of the work in the community of Vargas, municipality of Veracruz, federal and state authorities have confirmed political animal that the installation does not yet have the necessary environmental permits.

Consulted, the Federal Secretariat for the Environment indicated that the authorities of Veracruz would be responsible for granting the permits, although Semarnat would provide support and technical advice so that the project – in which according to this expansion report Constellation Brands plans to invest $1,300 million to comply with the regulations.

“The authorization of the environmental permits necessary for the installation and operation of the plant are granted by the state government.Semarnat says verbatim, in an information sheet.

In response to requests for information, on June 27, various instances of Veracruz’s environmental secretary indicated that They still did not have the MIA, nor any other permit or document related to this work.

“There is no trace of any management or procedure carried out in terms of environmental impact”replies the Department of Environmental Impacts and Risks.

“This address until June 12, 2022 has not published any documents related to this work,” said Natural Resources Director Elida Reyes.

The Veracruz Presidency and City Council have been approached, along with Constellation Brands, for progress and what’s going on with permitting, but until this memo is released, they haven’t. had not answered.

Veracruz’s Natural Resources Department said it is responsible for issuing technical advice on the vocation of land use, in addition to giving recommendations on ecological conservation and restoration strategies, but in this case , it did not have a report on the aforementioned project .

In their responses to requests, The National Water Commission (Conagua) also denied having permits on file. or document granted for the construction of the plant, or any concession records so that Constellation Brands can extract the water.

In its response, Conagua only attached a copy of an official letter from the Central Gulf Basin Organization to Constellation Brands, dated February 9, 2022, in which said authority replied that it had no objection to the brewery carrying out survey work on the approximately 5 kilometer long section of the Arroyo San Juan Canal.

López Obrador, on April 22, presumed that since then the work already had all the permits, to operate without affecting the inhabitants.

“yesterday already the construction of a brewery, which was initially to be installed in Mexicali, began in the afternoon… the municipal president also helped to get all the permits. And they are already starting, they have already bought, I said, 300 hectares, they are already fine-tuning the construction project”, said the president.

They will use state-of-the-art technology, they are going to take care of the aquifers, the water for the supply of Veracruz is not going to be affected, nor for other communities or activities, they will drill wells in the ground. The studies have already been done, they already have the permits from Conagua, from the Environment”, he added.

His government has been criticized for accelerating the construction of strategic works such as the Dos Bocas refinery and the Mayan train, without having the corresponding environmental permits, in the face of which he generally points out that in the past there were no such claims. , that there are interests that seek to damage his government and that his administration has promoted programs like Sembrado Vida, to plant trees.