The factory, which suffered a work accident, could be authorized to increase its activity in the coming days, after a positive opinion. This
The factory, which suffered a work accident, could be authorized to increase its activity in the coming days, after a positive opinion.
This news is still hard for people who live near the Lubrizol factory in Rouen to swallow. The chemical plant could receive approval “in the coming days” to increase its activity, after the positive ruling on Tuesday from the Departmental Council for the Environment and Sanitary Risks and Technology (Coderst), according to the prefecture.
Although Rouen still smells strong hydrocarbons in the air, this plant could soon be operational. The Seveso High Threshold plant already partially restarted in December, less than three months after a spectacular fire ripped through the site. But Lubrizol wants to expand the capacity of these activities and reactivate each other, without the recovery being complete. The express train highlighted the reasons for this long path.
Positive opinion of Coderst
The opinion will be advisory, but “I always felt that in this particular case, given the sensitivity of the issue, I had to follow Coderst’s advice. That is what I will do,” Normandy Prefect Pierre-André Durand said. . The order could be issued “in the coming days,” according to a senior official. Coderst voted with 18 votes in favor, four against and two abstentions, the prefect said.
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Coderst consists of twenty-four members. Six representatives from the State Departments: the Regional Environment Administration, the Regional Health Agency, the Water Agency and the Territorial and Sea Administration. Isabelle Striga, president of Lubrizol France enjoys this advice, the place as well, as well as well as from the metropolis of Rouen, and from the association for the defense of the environment, which each have one vote.
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According to the prefect, “we cannot say that there is any security sacrifice” in the draft regulation. According to Guillaume Blavette, representative of France Nature Environment (FNE), which voted against, the union of liberal doctors also voted against, together with the association That the selection and the city of Dieppe. According to the activists, the Chamber of Agriculture and the Fishermen’s Association have failed.
The representative of the FNE explained that he did not vote against it because he regretted that before the accident the security measures provided for this expansion of activities were not in place. These measures “can help prevent a catastrophe,” said the FNE representative.
Of improved risk detection means
In the draft decree, “the means of fire detection have been improved, the extinguishing means have been reinforced, as well as the means of containment” in the hypothesis through which the products flow, the prefect explained in detail. “Where the regulations stipulate 20% of the liquid that can be withheld, a 100% withholding has been imposed,” said Pierre-André Durand.
These measures are in addition to the commitments made by Lubrizol during part of the restart in December, with a sharp reduction in the amount of product stored on site, which caused a “very significant reduction in risk at the source”, according to the prefect. . Another regulation is in the works, which should give the industry until September 26 to clean up and dismantle the affected area.
odors do not represent a risk according to the prefecture
In a statement, the Seine-Maritime prefecture said residents did not feel that the lingering odors in the south and east of Rouen were due to “a combination of remediation work (i.e. site cleanup) at the site of the Lubrizol factory in Rouen, with the current weather conditions”.
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The priority barrels were evacuated in January of last year and Lubrizol recently announced that the removal of debris from the first 900 m2 building, which details the location of France 3 Normandie, has been completed. Now the second building has to be cleaned, which is a much more important project, because the place is ten times the size.
Goal: Preserve jobs, says Lubrizol
“This restart is very important because it will allow us to lift the production chain of raw materials that we were forced to import from Asia and the United States. It will bring autonomy and will allow us to face the recovery of the automotive sector. after the closure,” the president told Lubrizol newspaper le Mondela, adding that it is “of fundamental importance for the sustainability of the site and jobs.”
The Rouen site has 200 employees, with subcontractors and indirect jobs, the group estimates that around 2,000 jobs are involved at the level of the Rouen agglomeration, the newspaper emphasized.
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“The central theme for the ministries of environment and economy is the return of Lubrizol’s profits and economic activity,” believes his side Gérald Le Corre, of the Lubrizol Collective Unit, an association founded after the accident. “There is concern that after the AZF, the priority of the economy endangers the lives of workers and the population, as well as the environment,” he points out on France 3.
Date updated: July 9, 2020, 2:58 PM
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