Chile's Environment Ministry announced the withdrawal of 43 supreme decrees from the Comptroller's Office, including Decree No. 3 of 2025 for Puerto Aysén's Atmospheric Decontamination Plan. The plan, started in 2021 after monitoring equipment installation in 2018, involved numerous stakeholders over more than three years. Fernando Becerra criticizes the move as a setback to its rollout.
In a letter to the editor in La Tercera, Fernando Becerra expresses regret over the withdrawal of Decree No. 3 of 2025, which establishes the Atmospheric Decontamination Plan for Puerto Aysén and surrounding areas. The Environment Ministry announced this on that week's Tuesday, withdrawing 43 supreme decrees from the Comptroller's Office in total. Air quality monitoring equipment was installed in 2018, but plan processing began in 2021, involving six SEREMIs, the Superintendency of the Environment, SERVIU, CONAF, the Municipality, research institutions, private companies, citizen organizations, and foundations. The public file lists over 174 documents, nine sessions of the Operational Committee, four of the Expanded Operational Committee, and a citizen consultation. The final project was sent on July 22, 2025, to the General Secretariat of the Presidency Ministry, after more than three years. Becerra states: 'It is regrettable that a plan that has taken so much time and has been transversal across governments and involved actors now faces another obstacle that slows its implementation.' He adds that if the current government's goal was to streamline projects, this action appears to go in the opposite direction.
