translated from Spanish: Oxiquim responds to the SMA and ensures that “it doesn’t have any relationship” with episodes of pollution in Quintero

as a result of the control process in the area of Puchuncavi-Quintero, the Superintendency of environmental announced a new formulation of Oxiquim charges.
The Government Agency formulated charges by “partial implementation of the stormwater management procedure” and the “use of the ponds 306 and 307 for the storage of substances other than those authorized environmentally”.
In response to this resolution of the SMA, the company issued a statement in which it emphasizes that the charges are not related to pollution episodes that have caused environmental crisis, noting that “the first charge is qualified in their own resolution of the SMA as mild offense and the second relates a permit pending from a pool of storage that the company had indeed submitted to the authority that should allow it to do 18 months ago”.
In this sense, the company ensures that the formulation of charges points to “operational matters that are completely unrelated to incidents of pollution affecting the community from last August onwards and coincide with facts that are already in” research a health summary”.
To support this point, indicate that “the same formulation of charges says at its 39: ‘ which, without prejudice to indicated, must be present that the performed audits to E-306 and E-307 ponds have not lifted spill-related events u” another type of contingency that is directly related to the pollution episode occurred the week of 20 to 26 August 2018 ‘ “.”
“It is important that he has been credited to that Oxiquim does not have any relationship with the regrettable events of pollution affecting the area”, it ends the Declaration.
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