Casi ciencia ficción

Un juez de Alberta (Canadá) ha sentenciado que la emrpesa Syncrude debe pagar una multa de 3 millones de dólares por la muerte de 1.600 aves acuáticas causada por un derrame de crudo en 2008.

En este otro lado del mundo la sentencia parece de ciencia ficción.

Uno, por la rapidez con que ha sido redactada, sólo 2 años después del incidente. Aquí seguimos sin fecha para el juicio del Prestige.

Dos, porque el juez ha decidido cuáles son los destinos de esos millones.

Tres, por cuáles son esos destinos:

The $3-million fine comes in three parts. First, Syncrude must pay $300,000 to the federal government and $500,000 to the province — the maximum fines allowed by law. Both fines include the victim's fine surcharge. The federal fine and half the provincial fine will go into general revenue.

The other half of the provincial fine, or $250,000, will go to Fort McMurray's Keyano College to create a wildlife management diploma program, said provincial prosecutor Susan McRory. This would help teach locals to monitor and protect wildlife in the oilsands region.

Second, Syncrude must give the Alberta Conservation Association $900,000 to buy about 24 hectares of wetlands near North Cooking Lake, located about 27 kilometres east of Edmonton.

The land purchase would complete the association's efforts to protect a 600-hectare wetland called Golden Ranches, said federal prosecutor Kent Brown, which is part of a large migratory bird corridor. It would also give many Edmontonians a chance to learn about the importance of wetlands.

Third, Syncrude must give the University of Alberta $1.3 million to research bird deterrents on tailings ponds. “The simple way to describe it is ‘how to build a better bird deterrent program,'”., McRory said

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