ReLASC. Lima, November 24
In recent years, the Peruvian Amazon has suffered serious environmental damage caused by oil spills. The interest and the need to find the best technical solutions to remediate these sites motivated the organization of the seminar by ReLASC, which took place in Lima on November 24.
The event allowed the exchange of experiences on this topic from academic, public and private sectors. Grupo Tema Litoclean actively participated in the event with the presentation of Begoña Mundó, CEO of the group, who talked about bioremediation techniques, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of their use and emphasizing the importance of performing laboratory and pilot scale tests before applying them.
On behalf of the General Directorate of Environmental Quality of MINAM, Vilma Morales, coordinator of the area of risk management, chemical substances and eco-efficiency, spoke.
Francisco García, director (e) of the Evaluation Directorate and Carlos Quiroz, both from the Environmental Evaluation and Oversight Agency – OEFA, explained how OEFA performs the identification of contaminated sites.
On behalf of ARCADIS Latin America, Andre Reboucas, Executive Director, spoke about how Brazil manages contaminated areas. He also presented the case of the remediation of a site impacted by oil in the Brazilian rainforest, highlighting the challenges that arise for projects in areas of difficult access, lack of electricity or lack of telecommunications.
Achim Constantin, secretary of ReLASC, closed the day by stressing the importance of evaluating each particular case to be remediated, with the support of new tools and advances in the different techniques to be applied locally and internationally.
