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Thursday, May 12, 2011

ArcelorMittal Galati fined again for environment violation

Thursday, 12 May 2011

It is reported that ArcelorMittal Galati management will be penalized for having treated with indifference a vegetation fire broke out in South Lake Malina.

ArcelorMittal Galati is better to pay ROL 50,000 for a fire broke out in the growing South Lake Malina fire that destroyed about two hectares of vegetation. Plant management has not announced any competent authority on the production of this incident. The fire was accidentally discovered by the commissioners of Galati Environment Guard.

According to them, good for a few hours, the fire burned the vegetation without anyone to take any action.

Mr John Abraham, a spokesman for the Environment Guard Galati, said that "ArcelorMittal would have to notify the authorities, including us. This did not happen. Nobody said anything. I have discovered for them what was going on. At that time we were in a planned combined control."

Mr Vespasian Smith director of environment of the Galati steel plant said that he knew nothing about this incident and even less about the fine to be imposed on the firm.

Last time mill fined Environment Guard in 2010, an amount of ROL 100,000 for the failure of the measures in the integrated environmental permit compliance.

The steel will be fined according to the Ordinance 195/2005 on the basis of the article states that environmental protection is the duty of all individuals and businesses, which must inform the competent authorities in case of accidental environmental pollutants or major accident.

Mr Dorian Dumitrescu spokesman of ArcelorMittal Galati said that "Our company has been notified of the fine but we will investigate the incident internally raised." (sourced adevarul.ro)

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