LIMA: Pervuian mining concern Doe Run must pay $163 million for failing to take sufficient environmental measures at its site in La Oraya, the country's high court announced Saturday.
Doe Run Peru also produces lead, copper and other metals that create large amounts of polluting byproducts.
Its contract, which the Peru high court says the company failed to honor, requires that it take stringent preventive measures to safeguard the environment in the area.
The government sued Doe Run Peru after it failed to build a treatment plant to reduce the emissions, and the country's Supreme Court has ruled in its favor, judicial officials announced.
A report last year by the International Federation for Human Rights found that "the air been contaminated by emissions of lead and other heavy metals spewed from the chimneys of the refinery," run by Doe Run Peru, and that the water and soil also had been contaminated.
Doe Run Peru is owned by the New York City based Renco Group holding company and is not affiliated with the St. Louis, Missouri based Doe Run Company in the United States.
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