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Réponse de l'entreprise

17 Sep 2019

Auteur:
Albemarle,
Auteur:
Albemarle

Albemarle's response

...we feel obliged to report that the data, values, background and comments exhibited by the review "Minería de lithium en el Salar de Atacama, Chile", EJOLT Atlas, 2017, lack, to a large extent content, rigour and, in some cases, veracity...

In Chile, we directly employ more than 700 people, and more than 4,000 indirect jobs exist as a result of our operations...Nearly 40% of our employees in the Salar de Atacama are from the indigenous communities bordering the salt flats...We also have a relationship of trust and respect with the communities of the Salar de Atacama basin...An example of this are the historic and unique Cooperation, Sustainability and Mutual Benefit agreements that we signed in 2012 with the Atacameña Community of Peine and 2016 with the Council of Atacameños People (CPA) and with each of the 18 indigenous communities of the Salar of Atacama...We have permanent monthly meetings with all the communities of the Salar...

...The article published in this platform refers to the filing of the project "Modifications and Improvement of the Solar Evaporation Well System in the Salar de Atacama", which was presented in 2009 and which the company subsequently improved...the Project...was unanimously approved by the Environmental Assessment Commission of the Antofagasta (CEA) on Monday 18 January 2016...It should be noted that the lithium production process carried out by Albemarle in the Salar of Atacama does not require fresh water...

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