A major mining company is dumping its waste into the sea off the Chilean city of Huasco without authorization from environmental authorities. The waste suffocates marine life, destroys habitat and contaminates the water column with toxic heavy metals. Despite sanctions against the company for violating regulations, it continues to dump mining waste into the sea as it has for 40 years.
Compañía Minera del Pacífico (CMP), a member of the mining and steel conglomerate CAP (Compañía de Acero del Pacífico), has been discharging its mining waste into the sea in the port city of Huasco in northern Chile since 1978 — dumping it directly on the beach initially, before piping it out into the bay from 1993 onward. Huasco sits on a patch of the most arid desert in the world, and in 2012 it was declared a “sacrifice zone” due to its high pollution levels.
— source news.mongabay.com | 13 Nov 2018
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