Environmental Alert: Justice Gives AR Zinc an Ultimatum for Risk of Toxic Pollution in Paraná River
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A judge of San Lorenzo ordered the metallurgical firm to immediately begin the stabilization works in Fray Luis Beltrán and to present a remediation plan. The site accumulates about 800,000 tons of toxic waste, threatened by the flood of the river and the arrival of the El Niño phenomenon. At the request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office [...] The note La Justicia intimidated AR Zinc to stop the risk of collapse of ravine and pollution in the Pa…
Judge Eugenio Romanini ordered AR Zinc S.A. to begin immediately the necessary tasks to stabilize the ravine of his property in Fray Luis Beltrán and prevent the dispersion of waste. The measure was arranged after a hearing held in the courts of San Lorenzo, on the basis of a request from the Public Prosecutor's Office [...] The news Fray Luis Beltrán: the Justice ordered AR Zinc to contain waste due to the risk of contamination of the Paraná wa…
The Court issued an urgent precautionary measure and fixed time-limits for the company AR Zinc S.A. to contain the imminent risk of collapse in its site located in Fray Luis Beltrán. In a decisive hearing led by prosecutor Maximiliano Nicosia, the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Prosecution founded the extreme gravity of the scenario: in the site there are piled up some 800,000 tons of toxic waste derived from heavy metals (including jarosita)…
The former Sulfacid was bought by the Swiss multinaconal Glencore in 2005 and closed due to the failure in an oven in 2016. In 2021 it passed into the hands of the Vila-Manzano Group. For a decade, in its site of 50 hectares 800,000 tons of toxic waste used in the production. Among them, Jarosite and heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and arsenic. Risk of collapse over the river and filtering to napas that the firm never contemplated The entry "…
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