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Article

16 Sep 2013

Author:
Centro Legal de Defensores del Medio Ambiente, EDLC

Residuos Mineros de Suecia Envenenan a Niños Chilenos

En 1983…Boliden decidió…disponer de…residuos de fundición contaminados con plomo y arsénico…acumulado[s]…en su planta de Ronnskar…[Y] eligió la opción menos costosa: enviar los residuos… a Arica…[para ser] “procesados” por la empresa chilena Promel…Sin embargo, el formulario enviado a la autoridad de salud por Promel decía que el material “no era tóxico”…En 2009, el gobierno concluyó un estudio...que declaraba que el área...todavía estaba contaminada y que la gente que habitaba...[allí] debía ser relocalizada. Esto no ha sucedido…Se ha identificado cientos de casos de envenenamiento…lo que incluye a...los niños nacidos en años posteriores a la llegada de los tóxicos...En 2003…Boliden…[ofreció] trabajar en una solución para el problema…[poniendo] como condición que la empresa fuese pagada por su trabajo…EDLC y abogados en Suecia y Chile han estado investigando el caso. Se está considerando activamente entablar un juicio en Suecia.

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