Chilean authorities have moved to apply what they call here the mano dura, or firm hand, to companies that fail to comply with industrial liquid-waste regulations. In November, Chilean authorities for the first time ever revoked the environmental permit of a salmon farming operation for lack of an adequate liquid-waste treatment plant. The move also marked the first time a company of any kind in Chile’s Tenth Region had had its environmental permit revoked. The Sanitary Services Superintendency (Siss), which oversees Chilean liquid-waste regulations, has launched 255 enforcement actions against businesses that it says have failed to inventory their liquid-waste emissions and to draft plans for dealing with those discharges. Some 46 companies already have been fined between US$3,500 and... [Log in to read more]