By A common package of legislative amendments regarding ballast pits will be finalized in a few days, so that we can stop the interest groups that stole Romania and destroyed entire communities, the Minister of Environment, Waters and Forests, Diana Buzoianu, announced on her social media page on Wednesday.
„Illegal ballast water dumps leave communities without water, destroy infrastructure, and endanger people’s lives. The hundreds of illegal ballast water dumps that have resulted in hundreds of abandoned craters all over the country have been ignored by the control authorities for years. We no longer accept being forgotten elsewhere. We have exponentially increased controls, we have exposed the phenomenon of fish ponds that were a front for ballast water dumps, we have launched the ballast water dump inspector. Now we are in the phase of amending the legislation to stop these mafias in the future. So I was happy to have the meeting convened these days by Mr. Ilie Bolojan, at the…
