REPSA and the 2015 La Pasión river crisis
- Social license and prior consultation
- Social license and prior consultation
- Audited
In Sayaxché, Petén (a mostly Q'eqchi' population), the palm oil producer REPSA (Grupo Olmeca) became associated with the mass fish kill on the La Pasión river from 6 June 2015 (~160 km of river, at least 23 species, 12,000 people directly affected); a criminal court suspended its operations on 17 September 2015 and the next day the complainant Rigoberto Lima Choc was murdered, while company workers briefly kidnapped 3 leaders. The case became the region's reference point for 'ecocide' and is the antecedent of social scrutiny of the palm chain (see dossier 20).
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- Fish kill on the La Pasión river
- ~160 km, ≥23 species, 12,000 affected
- Court suspension of REPSA
- 17 Sep 2015
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