The petrochemical group Naphtachimie has agreed to pay €1,2 million to settle legal proceedings related to two pollution incidents in the Bouches-du-Rhône region. The agreement was approved by the courts as part of a judicial agreement in the public environmental interest, the Marseille prosecutor's office announced on Tuesday.
The investigation focused on two pyrolysis oil leaks detected in 2018 and 2022 at the Martigues industrial site. These discharges contaminated the Auguette cove and part of the Fos-sur-Mer bay. This product is considered particularly toxic to aquatic organisms.
Imposed cleanup operations
The first incident, in July 2018, resulted in the release of approximately 50 tons of pyrolysis oil over several hours, some of which reached the Mediterranean Sea. A further, smaller leak was subsequently detected in April 2022. The investigations implicated, in particular, technical failures in the group's facilities.
In addition to the fine, Naphtachimie will have to compensate the environmental associations involved in the case and finance a bioremediation cleanup experiment in the Auguette cove. A subsidiary of the British group Ineos, the company has been located for several decades on the Lavéra petrochemical complex in Martigues.
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