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Nicaraguan tannery points the finger elsewhere

08/12/2010
The management team at the La Fuente tannery in Granada, Nicaragua, has issued a new statement suggesting that other businesses in the area may be the cause of unpleasant odours. The company repeated a message it issued at the end of November, saying it felt sure the tannery was not to blame owing to investments it has made in up-to-date technology and improvements it has made to its working processes.

Furthermore, the statement said that representatives of local media, of the country’s leather and footwear industry association and of the Nicaraguan ministry for the environment and natural resources (Marena) had all seen the tannery at close quarters and were in a position to confirm that the installations are in good working order.

The La Fuente management team went on to say that a nearby municipal rubbish dump, a slaughterhouse or even a small group of artisan exotic leathergoods producers may be to blame for the foul smell that residents of the community of El Hormigón, which is one kilometre from the tannery, have been complaining about for several weeks.

Granada’s mayor, Eulogio Mejía, told local media that the small volume of material these artisan companies are able to produce made it unlikely that they are responsible for the problem. Marena said it would continue to monitor the situation at the tannery.


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