Esso Standard Oil defended the installation of a fuel terminal 2.5 kilometers from the city of Puerto Plata. Esso Standard Oil and Texaco LatinAmerica that will together be building the terminal contracted by the Geochemical Engineering Inc. of Hollywood, Florida, to determine how to reduce the environmental impact of the construction of the terminal. The general manager of Esso, Mauricio Jiménez, in a visit to the Listín Diario that released the section of the study which focuses on risks to the environment, said that the study recommends the state of the art technologies that can be placed into effect to eliminate the risks stated in the report.
