NewsWhore
03-06-2007, 05:30 PM
Although some sectors in Montecristi and Samana provinces want to see the compensation money from the rock ash case invested in their communities, Environment Minister Max Puig says that it will be used to pay for the rock ash removal. According to Puig, the removal of the substance will ultimately benefit the surrounding areas. Puig explained that the funds that the AES Corporation has agreed to pay, US$6 million (RD$200 million), will be deposited into a bank account in the United States and will be used to pay the companies that were contracted to clean up the fly ash. Saturday's Listin Diario reported that the AES Corporation and the Dominican government had reached a settlement, thus ending the court case being heard in Virginia Federal District Court. AES Corporation was on trial for dumping more than 50 tons of the rock ash, also known as fly ash, in Samana and Montecristi provinces.
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