Chile: BHP faces water use lawsuit brought by Chilean state
요약
보고된 날짜: 2020년 4월 14일
위치: 칠레
기업 페이지
Minera Escondida (joint venture between BHP, Rio Tinto and JECO Corp) - Parent Company프로젝트
Escondida - Unknown영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 숫자를 알 수 없음
Community: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 위치를 알 수 없음 - 알 수 없는 업종 , Gender not reported )토픽들
임금 착취 , 물 접근성 , 파업 및 기타 작업 중단 , 주목할 만한 지역이나 보호 구역에 미치는 영향 , 깨끗하고, 건강하고, 지속가능한 환경결과
Response sought: 아니오
출처: News outlet
"Global miner BHP faces water use lawsuit brought by Chilean state," 15 April 2020
A Chilean environmental court said... it would investigate a complaint brought by the government against global miner BHP over allegations of damage to the northern Punta Negra salt flat.
The First Environmental Court... of Antofagasta, said the complaint was brought by the State Defense Council against BHP. The complaint described "continuous, cumulative, permanent and irreparable environmental damage" to the salt flat..
BHP did not immediately reply to a Reuters request for comment.
The lawsuit said BHP's extraction of water to service its Escondida copper mine... caused a "severe decline" in the levels of the salt flat's acquifer, "partially or totally" caused the loss of wetlands and vegetation and compromised the survival of its fauna.
The state complaint alleged that BHP had the necessary environment approvals to operate the salt flat but none of these adequately considered the "significant impacts" on its water levels, or sought to mitigate them.