| Montreal, 26/03/2007 – Today the Secretariat of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) issued a notification informing the CEC Council of the withdrawal of its Notification of 18 January 2007, under Article 15(1) of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), that a factual record is warranted for submission SEM-05-002 (Coronado Islands), and terminating the process for the submission.
Withdrawal of the Article 15(1) notification and termination of the process for the submission is warranted in view of Mexico’s notification to the Secretariat that on 15 February 2007, Chevron Texaco informed Semarnat of its decision not to proceed with the authorization for the Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) terminal project that the company had proposed to construct off the coast of Baja California and adjacent to the Coronado Islands, and that on 16 February 2007, prior to execution of any works or activities for the project, Semarnat accordingly informed Chevron Texaco that it had deemed the authorization as having no effect. Semarnat notified the Secretariat of these circumstances in a letter dated 27 February 2007, attaching as well the February 15 letter from Chevron Texaco.
The Secretariat’s Executive Director, Felipe Adrián Vázquez-Gálvez, recused himself from involvement with the Coronado Islands submission upon beginning his term in September 2006, and Legal Officer Paolo Solano of the Secretariat’s Submissions on Enforcement Matters Unit recused himself from involvement with the submission upon beginning his employment at the CEC in January 2006. Neither Mr. Vázquez-Gálvez nor Mr. Solano participated in the decision announced today.
For more information, please visit the CEC's Citizen Submissions on Enforcement Matters page. |
