{"id":33398,"date":"2021-07-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricavoice.com\/?guid=26a154901d78bd43875209fbdddb7b93"},"modified":"2021-07-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T00:00:00","slug":"department-provides-support-following-cornubia-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricavoice.com\/department-provides-support-following-cornubia-blaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Department provides support following Cornubia blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) has deployed a team of specialists to KwaZulu-Natal following a fire at the UPL facility in Cornubia.<\/P><P>In a statement on Wednesday, the department said the team will support the ongoing efforts to address the pollution impact resulting from the burning of the UPL warehouse, containing bulk supplies of herbicides, fungicides and pesticides.  <\/P><P>\u201cWe are deeply concerned about the environmental impact on air quality as well as on the aquatic and marine ecosystems resulting from the fire incident at the UPL facility in Cornubia that took place during the unrest in Kwazulu-Natal last week,\u201d DFFE Minister Barbara Creecy said.<\/P><P>The team was deployed on request by the province\u2019s MEC for Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs, Ravi Pillay.<\/P><P>The team is expected to arrive in KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday. It will consist of individuals with technical skills in the following areas of work: Aquatic systems; Epidemiology (health risk assessment); Enforcement \u2013 Waste and Pollution, and Compliance \u2013 Oceans and Coasts.<\/P><P>\u201cThe objective of this team will be to provide on-the-ground support and assistance to the KwaZulu-Natal Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs [department] and the eThekwini Municipality.  The priority at this stage is to ensure that impacts are mitigated and that the containment measures are effective.<\/P><P>\u201cIn this regard, it is furthermore important to note than an authority\u2019s joint operations team is already in place and working with the team of specialists appointed by UPL to understand the extent of the impacts and co-ordinate the implementation of containment and mitigation measures,\u201d the department said.<\/P><P><\/P><P>Source: South African Government News Agency<\/P><P><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) has deployed a team of specialists to KwaZulu-Natal following a fire at the UPL facility in Cornubia.In a statement on Wednesday, the department said the team will support the ongoing eff&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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