The President of the Republic, Pedro Castillo, conducted a flyover this Wednesday afternoon over the areas affected by the oil spill that occurred last Saturday at the La Pampilla refinery (Repsol) in the sea of Ventanilla (Callao), and which is coming affecting the flora and fauna of several kilometers of coastline.
According to official information, the head of state visited the areas of Ventanilla, Ancón, Santa Rosa and Chancay, it is estimated that the oil spill affected 18,000 m² of sea off the Peruvian coast.
According to the multinational Repsol, this hydrocarbon spill was the product of strong waves recorded on the Peruvian coast after the eruption of an underwater volcano in Tonga, Oceania.
In his turn, the Minister of the Environment, Rubén Ramírez, met with representatives of Repsol and pointed out that the spill has been approximately 6,000 barrels of oil, so the fine that the refinery could receive The Pampilla it would be up to 30,000 UIT, equivalent to S/138 million.
According to the National Service of Protected Areas by the State (Sernanp), the oil spill affected the National Reserve System of Guano Islands, Islets and Puntas-Islotes de Pescadores and the Reserved Zone of Ancón.
This Wednesday the 19th, the head of the Council of Ministers, Mirtha Vásquez, warned that the company Repsol Apparently, it did not have a contingency plan for the oil spill that occurred in the Ventanilla Sea.
“They told us about the OEFA that it has been verified that, apparently, the company did not have a contingency plan, for the same reason it has not had the capacity to react, for the same reason they are just talking about hiring a company to do the cleaning , remediation, and, of course, there were no concrete measures that could be taken at that time, and four days have passed and the disaster continues to spread due to these issues of the lack of a contingency plan”, he maintained at a press conference.
However, the communications manager of the Repsol company, Tine van den Wall Bake Rodríguez, stated that the company “did not cause the ecological disaster”. He added that they could not point to those responsible for this fact.
