"Chile environmental regulator orders Antofagasta to apply risk control measures", 08 September 2022

...Chile’s environmental regulator SMA said...it had ordered Antofagasta to implement seven measures to control risks linked to the rescue of hydrocarbons.

The requested actions come after the collapse of a platform last month at the miner’s INCO infrastructure project, which includes a desalination plant and a water pipeline for Los Pelambres.

SMA said the measures are intended to prevent risks associated with the leak of hydrocarbons from submerged equipment.

They include setting up rescue centres for marine fauna, modeling of the hydrocarbon and/or oil plume, evaluating of areas of greater environmental sensitivity along the coastline, and executing “extraordinary” monitoring of birds and mammals.

Surveillance and extraordinary monitoring measures must be kept in place and construction work won’t be allowed to resume until the total recovery of substances and structures that represent risks to the environment...