We have questioned the Minister with the Environment Filter Presses

At the end of this specific period, no pollutant should no more be rejected at sea. Altéo, after 50 many polluting "red mud" discharges at sea, obtained Filter Presses Manufacturers at the end of November a new prefectural authorization. "This furious madness may be going on for 60 many years (...Taking into account this technique, the prefecture granted a derogation to the firm, authorizing it to refrain from these liquids for six a long time.

Ségolène Royal had disapproved on the decision to authorize again the particular discharge of effluents, which she said was taken because of the prefect on "direct" order involving Prime Minister Manuel Valls.. This company has been authorized by the state to remain discharges of effluents into the waters in the Parc national des Calanques. About a thousand people gathered this Saturday as you're watching prefecture of Bouches-du-Rhone in Marseille to denounce "the scandal of red mud" spilled in the Mediterranean by the industrial Altéo.) We do not cherish the Marseillais, the fishermen and hundreds of who live by the seaside, " said MEP José Bové, present in the rally.

But many local associations have objected to the derogation, believing that the problem associated with water pollution still exists and pointing to your lack of will of Alteo. Environmentalists believe "job blackmail" - the Gardanne seed employs 400 employees and THREE HUNDRED subcontractors - has led that Prime Minister to ignore the position of the Minister of the Environment. "We have questioned the Minister with the Environment (Ségolène Royal):

I hope we will have a clear announcement to halt this scandal" releases of arsenic in addition to heavy metals at sea, they added. It has modified its operations and rejects a filtered liquid that opponents continue to keep consider as pollutant