translated from Spanish: Senate Environment Commission dispatches project that creates environmental crime

On Tuesday, the Senate Committee on the Environment and National Goods released the bill (12,398-12) that seeks to criminalize conduct that seriously attacks the environment.
The project dispatched by the commission, chaired by Senator Guido Girardi and composed of the Parliamentarians Ximena Orders, Isabel Allende, Rafael Prohens and David Sandoval, recast several other initiatives presented previously and that had the same objective: to protect the environment and the health of people with the utmost rigour.
The legislation must now pass to the Constitution, Legislation, Justice and Regulations Commission because it is an organic constitutional law and would become the first criminal law that would “regulate a system of allegations of possible effective crimes, which favors preventive control.”
At the end of the session Senator Guido Girardi noted that “after a long process and with the participation of all the senators of the Commission we have dispatched legislation that establishes criminal sanctions, just as all societies do seriously damaged the environment and people’s health.”
According to the MP PPD when the initiative is approved “situations such as Essal in Osorno, Guarello Island in Magellan or slaughter zones such as Quintero – Puchuncaví will not be repeated because those who make the decisions will have a responsibility will ensure the necessary preventive measures to ensure that they do not occur.”
Girardi concluded by noting that “we think this is a very important development that will favor communities and also companies themselves because they will make much more rigorous decisions. I think that will go a long way to getting this country on the path to development that is effectively compatible with the environment. Now move on to the Constitution Committee and we’re going to ask that your paperwork be expedited.”

Original source in Spanish