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30/11/2012
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Rio de Janeiro - The Mint of Brazil (CMB) was fined R$ 860,000 for damage to the environment. According to the State Institute of the Environment, CMB did dumps untreated waste Canal in San Francisco, disobeying term environmental licensing. The canal passes through the Industrial Park of Santa Cruz, the neighborhood west of the state capital.
The Mint said through a statement that is providing a new treatment system that meets the growth in factory production. "The process has already been auctioned, with the signed contract, and the forecast for the end of construction and operation of the system is the first half of 2013." The CMB also said hired on an emergency basis, a company to treat effluent and adjust them to current legislation to the functioning of the new system.
For the president of INEA, Marilene Ramos, the measures adopted by the Mint act as mitigating, but do not prevent the application of the penalty. "These measures will not descaracterizam the environmental damage they caused. What can be done, is that they can propose an adjustment term behavior, where part of this amount to be converted in environmental services, "he said.
The INEA informed that the CMB can still enter with a request for reconsideration to contest the fine. But if it is rejected, you will have to pay off their mortgage within 15 days.
Source: Agency Brazil
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