translated from Spanish: Quintero – Puchuncaví decontamination plan as in a comedy: re-entering written the Comptroller then that Minister Schmidt negara observations

On Tuesday, during an activity on land in Viña del Mar, where he handed out eco-bags, the Minister of environment, Carolina Schmidt, announced that the trami tation of Plan of prevention and decontamination air for the communes of Concón and Quintero Puchuncaví would wind aft in the Comptroller’s Office, and was only waiting for the taking of reason by the audit entity.
What did not reveal the Minister at that time, however, was that past February 20, plan had been withdrawn Comptroller’s own purse, to address some comments, as it revealed a publication of El Mercurio de Valparaiso. To the same medium, the Secretary of State assured her that the Government is “priority” to decontaminate the area, and with that goal, they developed a “extremely demanding” plan. Asked directly if the plan had comments by the supervisory body, its answer in the interview was emphatic: “No”.
His version contrasted with the of the seremi of environment of the region, Victoria Gazmuri, who confirmed that there was a setback to Comptroller, noting that “indeed there are observations and proceeded to the removal of the PDA, which is a normal procedure in this type of” instances”.
With this crossing of versions, the question, then, if the Minister lied in the interview when he said that everything was in order or simply unaware of the procedures performed by your portfolio before the Comptroller, was installed.
Reentered plan Friday once installed the controversy, on environment were played by lower profile to the situation, pointing out that what happened corresponds to normal procedures within a complex process such as the approval in the Comptroller’s Office. In addition, a sign of normalcy, confirmed that Friday they entered again the plan to the supervisory body to follow the process.
This was confirmed by own Minister before the counter query. “The decontamination Plan with all the clarifications made is being re-admitted to Comptrollership day today, Friday 1 March 2019. Give answers to these queries form part of the regular process of a plan,”he said, without specifying how many objections were raised by the entity controller.
Yet, from the Ministry of environment they further indicated that observations of Comptroller would be only of “form”, and there was no objection from bottom to the project.
In addition, in an attempt to drama the impasse, they insisted that for the high level of technical complexity of the materials the project, it is usual that requested this type of “clarifications”.
Hassle of parliamentary E l removal of the environmental law was criticized by members of Parliament from the area, even by the RN Senator Francisco Chahuán governing. “The importance that has the decontamination Plan, here has not been taken must be much more rigorous, bring it forward as soon as possible, hopefully avoiding these missteps that must be solved as soon as possible, because the community can not wait that is” take concrete action”, said parliamentarian to the counter.
Moreover, the Senator put focus in that 6 months of the environmental crisis in the area “to date there is no charge and they are either new instruments to prevent that new episodes are recorded”.
Senator PPD Ricardo Lagos Weber also reacted with surprise. “I think it is difficult to understand what has happened, especially when from the Ministry of the environment entry of the decontamination plan is confirmed for reason taking activities, and having been indicated through the press that the letter was dispatched without” observations. Here is missing a good explanation of the Government and the own Minister”, said the parliamentarian.
According to the Senator, “what is serious is that this fact produces great uncertainty in the population and leaves a mantle of doubts about how you are handling these actions from the Government.” I hope it is resolved quickly and to give a good explanation of Quintero and Puchuncaví neighbors”.
For his part, Deputy DC Daniel Verdessi slipped that this rejection was expected. “From the first moment, we pointed out that we were not compliant with the decontamination Plan, primarily by problems of asymmetry, because demands are inexplicably older for the public sector and softer for the private sector. Specifically we ship observations and we discussed in the meetings of work, but in the Government considered that it was not enough to change the plan”, he told the desk.
“In addition, obviously from a controller who is expert on environmental issues, such as Jorge Bermudez, had to make a plan quite right”, he said, alluding to other causal which would explain the observations made to the initial proposal of the Government.
In the opinion of the parliamentary Falangist, what happened reflects also that “the Ministry of the environment is precarious, with very few staff, very few experts, and a Superintendent who started their duties not long ago”.

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