Senate Committees reject indications from the Chamber of Deputies in Chile

With a vote of 7 against, 1 abstention and 1 in favor, the United Committees on Agriculture and the Environment of the Senate, which met on August 16, rejected the indications introduced by the Chamber of Deputies to the bill on the protection of peat bogs The discussion in this Commission focused on the fact that the indications introduced by the Chamber of Deputies, which pointed to the prohibition of the production of peat, its commercialization and importation, would have the opposite effect to what the Senate seeks in terms of regulating the use of this resource. Also, the non-use of peat in Chile would cause great losses to food production, in circumstances in which peat is used massively in the world under environmental certifications that Chile has not yet introduced. The bill has been left in this way to be voted on in ...