The UPL warehouse was one of the many buildings that were damaged during the riots in July.
A member of a spill cleaning crew removes dead fish from the river in the uMhlanga Lagoon Nature Reserve in Durban on July 18, 2021.
Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Barbara Creecy yesterday released the Joint Preliminary Investigation into the Compliance Profile of theCreecy said the report was a result of an investigation by a multi-disciplinary team into the regulatory environment in which the UPL warehouse was required to operate, and the environmental impact of the chemical spill and fire incident which caused a serious environmental problem over the past few months.
“UPL has desisted from highlighting the many inadequacies of government’s response to this matter,” UPL said. “UPL will in due course respond to allegations of non-compliance in the appropriate forums. For now, it intends to get on with the clean-up and rehabilitation. It has had extensive interactions with the authorities in the past, and trusts that the minister’s current visit and actions have not prejudiced that.”
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