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Article

22 Jun 2007

Author:
Cynthia McMurry, The Santiago Times [Chile]

CELCO to be sued for toxic spills in Chile's Mataquito River

...the [Chilean] government’s legal office, announced...it is building a case to prosecute Chilean wood pulp producer CELCO and seek reparations for the environmental damage produced by toxic waste spills from the company’s Lincancel wood pulp plant…[C]ompany spokesman…admitted that liquid industrial waste exceeding the permitted contamination limits entered the [river]. Still, company officials…insist that all waste ducts coming from their Lincancel plant are legally constructed…Local fishermen…have lost their jobs due to the spills…“Right now...we can’t work,” said Luis Correa, president of the Mar Brava fishermen’s union…Mar Brava is bringing a criminal lawsuit against the company.