… To respond to the false publication of the "José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers Collective" portal, it´s necessary to clarify the following in advance: Best Coal Company BCC is not a Turkish company. BCC is a Colombian company that acquired the mining titles of the CCX and MPX companies in 2017. Once the titles were acquired by BCC, a rethinking of the mining projects was carried out, which in no way resemble those that had been designed at the time the previous owners. The Cañaverales mining project is not a megaproject, in fact, it is a project that was designed for a total exploitation of approximately 12 million tons of coal, with a useful life of just 10 years. It is far from resembling the large mining projects in Guajira and Cesar territories. It´s important to clarify, that the Cañaverales mining project had already obtained an environmental license in 2011 and the license lost its effect in 2017 because the mining project was not started. Once BCC started the process, in order to obtain a new license, the community councils of the black communities appeared in the territory, and through a “tutela” (legal action), they obtained recognized by the Ministry of the Interior, and was mandatory to develop the consultation process with those communities…Eighteen (18) months after start the consultation processes with eight (8) of nine (9) communities in the influence area of the Cañaverales Mining Project, BCC has completed all the consultation processes and achieving the final protocolization and signing of agreements with the councils: “Nelvis Aragón of Conejo”, “Gustavo Castro of El Tablazo”, “Wilmer Tirado of Corralejas”, “Rafael Zuñiga of Los Pozos”, “Diaspora of El Tablazo”, “Caminos hacia el Desarrollo of Pondorito and Boca de Monte”, “Tiama of Corralejas” and “Luis Enrique Martínez of Sitio Nuevo”, except with “Los Negros de Cañaverales). With that community council, has not been possible to initiate a single formal session with different representatives of the Directorate of the National Authority for Prior Consultation DANCP, as there has been absolute reluctance from this community; being summoned through the call procedures established by the aforementioned entity, as stipulated by Directive 8 of September 9, 2020…