Robert Bouvier pointed out that his government portfolio “has been attentive” to the episodes that occurred at the Finnish company’s new plant.
He Minister of the Environment, Robert Bouvierdefended himself against criticism for the latest spill that occurred after the breakage of a pulp pipe at the plant UPM 2 (UPM Paso de los Toros)and assured that his government portfolio “has been attentive” to recent episodes.
The owner of the Ministry of Environment (MA) responded this Wednesday at a press conference to the criticism that arose from legislators of Open Town Hall (CA) and the Broad Front (FA) after the latest spill at the recently inaugurated plant of the Finnish company UPM located in Centennial Town (Durazno).
“The Ministry has been attentive,” he said. Bouvierwho stressed that the MA “does not manage the plant, we are not operating the plant, we control it.”
Bouvierpointed out that he does not share the vision of “passivity” that legislators maintain regarding the actions of the government portfolio, as they expressed after the appearance of the MAs at the Parliament’s Special Environment Commission.
“In this case, we never found out (about the spill) by chance, we are finding out through the normal means that correspond so that we have knowledge of the facts,” the minister reaffirmed.
For its part, Bouvier He hopes that this type of episode “will not be repeated” in the new pulp mill and assured that the MA has “a very strict operation plan, which obviously tries to anticipate these events.”
Environment will agree to the request of legislators to visit the UPM plant
Regarding the appearance of the MA authorities in Parliament, he said that he thought it “was very good”, since “obviously, UPM “It is a very sensitive issue,” and that the ministry has no problem agreeing to the legislators’ request to visit the facilities of the European company.
“It is something that does not concern our ministry, but we can make it possible to talk to the plant so that the deputies know first-hand what it is like,” he concluded in this regard.
Source: Ambito
