OEFA imposed first fine of S/ 460,000 on Repsol for oil spill

The Agency for Environmental Assessment and Enforcement (OEFA) imposed a first fine of 100 UIT (S/ 460,000) on Repsol for the crude oil spill that occurred on January 15 on the coast of Ventanilla.

The entity reported, through its Twitter account, that the sanction is due to “non-compliance with the first ordered measure, related to the identification of the affected areas in the environmental emergency, which will continue to be applied successively until its compliance is proven. compliance”.

Likewise, the OEFA stressed that, to date, there is an administrative sanctioning process initiated against the Spanish transnational. In this case, the monetary penalty “can amount to up to 4,000 UIT (S/ 18 million)”.

In the morning, a delegation made up of the Minister of Environment, the Vice Minister of Strategic Development of Natural Resources and the president of OEFA, Miriam Alegría, visited the areas affected by the oil spill in the Bay of Ancón and the National Reserve System of Islands, Islets and Guano Points.

The group supervised the execution of the Immediate and Short Term Action Plan, within the framework of the Declaration of Environmental Emergency (DEA) in the marine-coastal zone.

Source: Larepublica

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