Cases / Chemical pollution · Peru · 2000
Choropampa mercury spill in Peru, listed in a CAO case file
Short record: the main facts, with sources. A full case file has not been prepared.
Nature's voice · report
No measurement of the harm done to me here is on record.
Did nature suffer? Not measured.
Not on record
- The record does not name which of my species, waters, soils or forests were harmed.
A mercury spill at Choropampa, Peru, is listed with the CAO, the IFC ombudsman. The pollutant named is mercury; the sources reviewed do not describe the spill's effects or any remedy.
What?
Mercury spilled at Choropampa, Peru; a CAO case file is listed for it CAO (IFC/MIGA Compliance Advisor Ombudsman)
Where?
Choropampa, Peru CAO (IFC/MIGA Compliance Advisor Ombudsman)
Who?
Gained
None on recordLost
None on recordHarmed
None on recordWhy?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
How?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
5 of 6 questions answered from the record · open: who
What happened
The record, in order.
The CAO, the IFC ombudsman, has a case file listed for the Choropampa mercury spill in Peru [0].
The year 2000 is listed against the spill [0].
In court and with insurers
Every proceeding and every insurer decision on record.
Lawsuits and rulings
No court case on record. No court has ruled on this case.
Insurers
No insurer decision on record.
What we don't know
Undisclosed, unproven, untried: recorded as data.
Nature
- Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.
Record
- None on record The quantity of mercury spilled, the number of people affected, and any clean-up or compensation are not stated in the sources reviewed.
- None on record The company responsible is not named in the sources reviewed; the address of the linked CAO case refers to Yanacocha in Cajamarca.
- None on record The status and outcome of the CAO case are not stated in the sources reviewed.
- None on record The exact date of the spill is not stated; 2000 appears only as a year.
Did the harm stop?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Who paid?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Sources
Voices on record: — Company or project— Government and regulators— Courts✓ Press and investigations— Communities and civil society— Researchers
Press and investigations
- Peru Choropampa mercury spillCAO (IFC/MIGA Compliance Advisor Ombudsman) · 2000
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Related matters, and cases linked to this one through the same organisations, with the role each played in both.
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- CAO (Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, IFC/MIGA) (International organisation) — here: lists the case file; there: lists the case reference