It has also expanded the scope of an independent review, due to report in early April, and launched an internal audit after receiving an infraction notice from SEMAS, the Pará State Environment and Sustainability Secretary, relating to an unlicensed drainage connection.
The company said today that untreated rainwater from the roof of a coal storage shed had entered the Pará river via an unlicensed connection to a drainage canal – and it had found there had been an additional inflow of water to the canal from the former hydrate storage area.
“We have discharged untreated rain and surface water into the Pará River,” Hydro president and CEO Svein Richard Brandtzæg said.
“This is completely unacceptable and in…
