Jan 17 - ESG Concerned By Lack Of Official Information Following Fire At Acerinox Complex

Written by YGTV Team on 17 January 2017.

The Environmental Safety Group (ESG) says it noted with some alarm the voluminous clouds of thick black smoke leaving the Acerinox complex last week.

Alongside Spanish groups, it further notes there was an absence of comments by any authority, or helpful feedback from emergency numbers provided. Moreover, no statement has been forthcoming from the company itself.

The ESG believes that this is not the way for an industry to behave in this day and age when a factual and transparent announcement, stating cause and composition of fire, is the least all Bay citizens deserve. The group says that prevalent winds sent this cloud throughout the Campo area and towards Gibraltar.

A statement ended: “It is unacceptable for silence to follow such an incident, which, though brief, had such a widespread and cross border range. The ESG will include this incident with others being assembled in a dossier for EU purposes.”

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