Peru confirms that Doe Run will have to comply with environmental obligations
lima, 2 APR (EFE).-the Minister of the environment of Peru, Manuel Pulgar Vidal, said today that the mining company Doe Run Peru (PRA), American capital, will have to comply with its obligations environmental to restart its operations in the city of La Oroya, one of the most polluted in the world. “any restructuring of the company is possible because it is always feasible to restructure, (but) passes through the fulfilment of environmental requirements,” emphasized Pulgar Vidal in a press conference. The Minister also remarked that Ollanta Humala Government has clearly rejected a request for arbitration filed by the company of the American Tycoon Ira Rennert. “PRA has an obligation to comply and has to comply without be initiating prosecutions everywhere, because not only is that arbitration is the challenge of the Peruvian State as creditor, said. Pulgar Vidal explained that the company has lodged a series of legislative and administrative measures which, as he reiterated the Peruvian Executive rejects. “As the President of the Council of Ministers, Oscar Valdés, and the Minister of energy and mines said, we demand that it meet its environmental obligations,” indicated. Doe Run Peru paralyzed in 2009 the operations of the La Oroya metallurgical complex, 185 miles east of Lima, after facing serious funding problems. Since that time, hundreds of employees of the company receive a percentage of their salary, while social and environmental...
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