In the following article in El Mostrador, Las Salinas’ Environmental Manager, Camilo Quiroga, talked about the Las Salinas project and its positive impact on both the environment and soil remediation in Chile. With some 3,363 soils with potential contaminants in Chile, Las Salinas, together with the 48-hectare remediation project of the company Ferrocarril Antofagasta a Bolivia (FCAB), are two initiatives that could be the spearhead for resolving this type of problem at the national level. “We have our own feelings about the importance of remediation processes to reconvert land that was initially industrial or mining land or that has some type of environmental liability and with this remediation process transform it, return it to the city and reconvert it so that the city can continue to develop,” said Quiroga. Although there are still regulatory problems, such as the lack of a soil standards law, which prevent this type of project from advancing more easily, these projects have become a kind of reference for the recovery of contaminated soils in Chile and contribute to the construction of future public policies to be able to reincorporate land into the urban fabric that, apparently, would no longer have new uses.
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