Gironde: “There is no risk for the population” following the ammonia cloud from the Yara factory – South West

Sylvie Nony, who was a member of the monitoring commission for this Seveso-classified industrial site for Sepanso (association for the defense of the environment), now an activist within the collective Notre maison brule, indicates that several formal notices from the prefecture targeting the Yara company in southern Ambès for a time, were finally “normalized. “Most of the time, Yara sites are pretty well maintained,” she notes. Following the tragedy of this Wednesday morning, which took place during the loading of ammonia liquid from a tanker truck, the environmental activist is nevertheless worried about the staff. She thus observes that many accidents, in this type of factory, take place in its surroundings, on the quays or the port. “It is very often during loading, in areas where less care is taken, that accidents occur, she believes. This would require that there be the same supervision, the same safety instructions, as inside. »