Environmental impact assessment in Moa-Holguín Port

• Published in: Revista Colombiana de biotecnologia Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 129 - 139
• Main Authors: Rosa María Pérez Silva, Asel Guilarte Gainza, Janet Nápoles-Álvarez, Ariel Díaz-Puig, Osvaldo Rafael Fernández-Morgado, Arelis Abalos-Rodríguez
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 01.07.2015
• Subjects: contaminación; contamination; environmental study; estudio ambiental; evaluación; evaluation; hidrocarburos; hydrocarbons; petroleum; petróleo
• DOI: 10.15446/rev.colomb.biote.v17n2.54287
• ISSN: 0123-3475

The operations of unloading ships the reception and distribution of products derivate of oil crude in the storage area, the movement of raw materials like coal anthracite, ammonia and sulphur, the load of lots of minerals as well as the maintenance of ships, direct leads to the appearance of hydrocarbons that affects the different ecosystems which he meets in once the contaminating source in the municipal Moa. It is present the characterization of ecosystems affected with oil's hydrocarbons, attending to environmental impacts identified by the expert group and the prior characterization of the area using assessment tools expert judgment using Delphi methodology. The environmental impact study was realized of qualitative form through matrix of cause-effect, valuation and importance of impact. The environmental factors of resulting surface/groundwater and health and hygiene the most attacked while impacts were more aggressive emissions (throwing to the ground hydrocarbons/ liberation to the midway air of gases, noises and materials in particles, throwing and contamination of the source for dragging of sediments, hydrocarbons and chemical substances) and accumulation waste (creation of drains industrials).