The deadly dump from Formosa’s $11b steel plant in Ha Tinh province
sparked one of the country’s worst environmental catastrophes.
Hanoi: A Taiwanese steel firm behind a toxic spill that killed tonnes
of fish in central Vietnam last year was fined for a second time for
illegally burying “harmful” waste, official sources said on Sunday.
The
deadly dump from Formosa’s $11 billion (Dh40 billion) steel plant in Ha
Tinh province sparked one of the country’s worst environmental
catastrophes, decimating livelihoods along swathes of coastline and
prompting months of rare protests in the authoritarian country.
The
firm was initially fined $500 million for pouring toxic
chemicalsincluding cyanide into the ocean in April 2016, and has now
been ordered to pay an additional $25,000 on separate charges of burying
harmful solid waste in the ground, according to the official Cong Ly
newspaper.
A local contractor will also be fined $20,000 for
helping to dispose of the 100 cubic metres of waste, added Cong Ly, the
mouthpiece of the Supreme Court.
An official in Ha Tinh province confirmed the latest fine to AFP on Sunday, without providing further details.
The waste was buried in July 2016, and local residents reported seeing
trucks ferrying the material to a farm belonging to the contractor hired
to dispose of it.
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