The head of the European Parliament’s environmental commission recently declared himself “impressed” by pollution at the Dock Sud petrochemical complex just south of Buenos Aires, and he pledged to raise the issue in the European Union. Karl-Heinz Florenz of Germany said he would highlight the problem at home because some of the companies using the complex, which includes refining and terminal facilities, are based in Europe. Among them are Royal-Dutch Shell and Repsol-YPF. “What we can do is pressure them to act in Argentina under the same quality standards as in Europe,” said Florenz, who toured the complex while in Buenos Aires for the Cop-10 climate-change conference last month. “[In Europe] they show up with clean clothes, but here they... [Log in to read more]