“What we come to do, in reality, is a manifestation of concern,” said the lawyer of the Environmental Lawyers association, Rafael Colombo, at the doors of the Superior Court of Justice (TSJ) of Neuquén, after challenging the cessation of the precautionary measure that had imposed embargoes for 7 million dollars on businessmen accused of pollution and fraud in the Neuquén Industrial Park.
Colombo recalled that The seizures were ordered by 4 judges before the appeal court annulled them and considered that justice must be “rival to the circumstances”, reinstate the embargoes on the accused and give signs of move against the “environmental crime of the powerful.” He also fought for the Environmental Crimes Prosecutor’s Office to advance towards the oral trial for the pollution generated by waste from the Vaca Muerta exploitation.
The organization that makes up Colombo, the APDH Neuquén and the Mapuche community organization are part of the complaint in the case against Comarsa, whose directors are accused by the prosecutor of environmental crimes of receiving million-dollar contracts to remedy oiled mud without doing the work and knowing that they were exceeded in capacity to execute the tasks.
The complainants reported that thenext week The review hearing will be held before a guarantee judge, ordered by the challenge court.
In parallel to the appeal, the complaint maintained the need for the “Yolanda law” to be applied or the obligation to train judicial operators on environmental issues. “Neuquén has its own provincial Yolanda law, but it applies only to public administration,” Colombo said.
Los Sludge with hydrocarbons was stored in the Neuquén Industrial Parkabout five blocks from the growing and spasmodic urbanization of Las Tomas and equal distance from the new lots planned and under development in the municipality of Neuquén.
The lawyer recalled that Almost 10,000 trucks of carcinogenic pollutants accumulated until they overflowed on the property in sight ofand provincial and municipal officials.
The APDH also reported that Colombo’s visit will seek to advance in meetings with the municipal and provincial administration.
“Justice said at the time that it was not the power of the judiciary to communicatera the municipal or provincial administration about possible damage to the population (in the immediate vicinity) because he estimated that the impact studies were done in case the subdivisions that were promoted around Comarsa: We are sure that there are no such studies said the APDH lawyer, Bruno Vadala.
The company withdrew from the treatment last year and continues to accumulate mud in Añelo.
«What we want is for the accused, withn their criminal maneuvers, do not affect future generations with their damage,” said Vadalá who He recalled that the inspection is in charge of the province and that the Municipal Institute of Urban Planning of Neuquén (IMUH) foresees lots next to the mud abandoned by the company.
“He estimated cost of remediation triples the amount seized, But it would be a beginning of searching for a solution, we must clean up the environmental damage because what we are trying to do here is that future generations do not suffer the damage that unscrupulous people like the accused do with their maneuvers,” he said.