The Senate investigation on the fire at Rouen denounces “blind spots unacceptable” and pin the ex-minister of Health Agnes Buzyn. The commission of inquiry o
The Senate investigation on the fire at Rouen denounces “blind spots unacceptable” and pin the ex-minister of Health Agnes Buzyn.
The commission of inquiry of the Senate on the spectacular fire of Lubrizol in Rouen denounces “blind spots unacceptable” in the policy of prevention of industrial risks in France, and pin the passage the ex-minister of Health Agnes Buzyn in a report released on Thursday.
“as the health monitoring itself, the identification of a health risk as practiced by the ministry of Health, was both late and incomplete,” write the reporters Christine Bonfanti-Dossat (LR) and Nicole Bonnefoy (PS) in their conclusions on this “major industrial accident”, victim-less “apparent”, which has been the object of “200 000 tweets in 24 hours”.
The government is pinned
The fire, which occurred on 26 September on the site Seveso high threshold, had caused a huge cloud of black smoke, that is 22 km long with the fallout of soot, even in the Hauts-de-France. Near 9505 tonnes of chemicals had burned at this plant of lubricants and motor on the site adjacent to the Normandy Logistics.
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For the commission presided over by the centrist Hervé Maurey, the methodology adopted by the ministry of Health for health monitoring is “problematic”. The senators continued : “It follows (…) that it is impossible to comment definitively on the health impact of the fire, Lubrizol, given only the data collected in the framework of the environmental monitoring, the latter being totally or partially unusable”.
The minister of the ecological Transition is also criticized. His goal in the wake of the disaster, “increase of 50% of the controls by 2022 staffing “constant” is “unrealistic”, according to the report. Senators denounce the decision “premature” of the minister of Agriculture “caught up in the urgency of the” 11 October ” to lift the prohibition of the sale of the milk produced in more than 200 municipalities.
“reduced Number of sanctions” against polluters
The government is not the only one pinned in this report. “The policy of prevention of industrial hazards deployed since 40 years in France reveals large blind spots and unacceptable,” write the reporters. “The budget appropriations allocated by the State to the prevention of technological risks are decreasing steadily for several years,” added the senators.
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elected to the Assembly point in addition to “the reduced number of penalties imposed against polluters. And they consider themselves to be “urgent need to review the doctrine of communication of a crisis of the State” consisting of “wanting to reassure at any price”.
Date Of Update: 04 June 2020, 14:58
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Source: newstars.edu.vn