The Environmental Protection Police Station (DPMA) of Rio de Janeiro will ask for the interdiction of the productive activities of the company Burn Indústria e Comércio Ltda, located in Queimados (RJ), for committing the crime of water pollution.
The decision came after the task force composed of the State Government, Civil Police, Inea (State Institute for the Environment) and the State Water and Sewage Company (Cedae), identified the industry as the author of the dumping of a detergent producer that caused foam in the river. Gandu and affected the distribution of water to 11 million people in the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro.
The authorities found, inside the company’s rainwater gallery, an unusual flow, with traces of the same material that caused the contamination of the river and consequently the stoppage of water production and distribution for 13 hours.
The Civil Police will judicially request the impediment of the company’s productive activities, as an interdiction of an administrative nature has already been declared.
In a note, Burn clarifies that there is no relationship between its factory in Queimados, in Baixada Fluminense, and the presence of chemical material in the Guandu River basin, even with the evidence presented by the task force.
According to the president of the State Environmental Institute, Philipe Campelo, the industry will be held responsible for environmental crime.
Today, we are going to court to ask for the banning of the company Burn Indústria e Comércio, from Queimados, which illegally dumped the substance into the waters, harming thousands of residents, mainly in Baixada Fluminense.
— Claudio Castro (@claudiocastroRJ) August 29, 2023
In a statement made on X, former Twitter, the governor of Rio de Janeiro, Cláudio Castro, said that he has already filed a request for the company to be interdicted in court and that his administration will not let an environmental crime go unpunished that impacted the lives of so many people.
CEDAE declared that water production was interrupted for 13 hours, starting at 5:30 am on Monday (28), half an hour after the first signs of contamination were noticed. The resumption of 100% of production took place only at 4:17 am on Tuesday (29).
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