Hotelera del Atlántico continues its legal plight. The hotel operating company is the owner of the Bayside Inn hotel of Costambar that was forced to close down due to pollution caused by the nearby operation of the Smith-Enron power plant. The Hotelera del Atlántico, in a full page newspaper advertisement in the local press, says that the power plant company seeks to indefinitely delay the case in order to not have to pay a RD$200 million indemnification. The case is being handled by the arbitrage court of the Santo Domingo Chamber of Commerce, where two judges have ruled against Smith-Enron, and a third was allegedly obliged to resign because of pressures. Hotelera Atlantico says that the verdict is valid despite the missing signature of the third judge.
