After students and teachers were affected by intense headaches due to bad odors in Nacimiento, it was decided to suspend classes at the Toqui Lautaro school. Given what happened, Mayor Carlos Toloza directly summoned the CMPC Santa Fe Plant to take measures to prevent these episodes from happening again.
The Toqui Lautaro School in Nacimiento, in the Bío Bío region, suspended its activities after students and teachers presented intense headaches due to bad odors emanating from the silver of CMPC.
According to councilor Luis Vergara, the problems began in the area last Monday, affecting the residents of the area with various symptoms.
The mayor asserted that those affected presented dizziness, nausea and even decompensation in older adults and children.
He added that on Wednesday they stayed until dawn waiting for a response from CMPC, which he specified came at the insistence of the neighbors and authorities.
Meanwhile, this Thursday the Toqui Lautaro School —through a statement— reported the suspension of their workday prematurely, as a result of discomfort that affected students and teachers.
All this due to an odor that, according to the municipal authority, is similar to decomposition.
Mayor summons Planta Santa Fe to take action
On its social networks, the municipality reported 14 students and teachers with headaches, who had to be treated at the local hospital.
Similarly, they claimed to have made the corresponding complaint to the Seremi de Environment and the Seremi de Salud del Bío Bío, the latter carried out an inspection at the plant facilities.
Mayor Carlos Toloza said that “we are not going to allow Planta Santa Fe already knows about this situation. They have to issue a statement so that the community finds out what happened”.
“Planta Santa Fe has enough resources to be able to invest and do everything necessary so that this never happens again. We cannot expose the health of our boys, girls, teachers, parents and the Estación sector”, he closed.
Councilman Vergara said that the company has a meeting committed to the community to refine different points that The 7,000 residents who live near its facilities are affected.
CMPC stops the start-up of Line 2
Then, the same municipality shared a statement from CMPC, where they reported the halt of the “line 2 start-up process until they obtain the regularization of all its industrial processes”.
They also explained that “stopping and restarting after the general shutdown of the plant are always moments of greater process instability. Unfortunately, in addition to this period of greater care, we had to face an illegal block by third parties on November 14 and 15”.