THE West Indies Alumina Company (Windalco) is being penalised by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) for the discharge of improperly treated industrial effluent from its Ewarton Works facility in St Catherine.

The company was on Wednesday served with three enforcement notices — each detailing the nature of their reported breaches of the Natural Resources Conservation Authority (NRCA) Act and outlining the required corrective action.

The serving of the notices come on the heels of the bauxite company being fingered as the party responsible for the recent fish kill in the Rio Cobre — a source of not only fish, but also drinking water for members of the public.

But up to yesterday, the bauxite company was refusing comment on either issue — even as the fish kill event has seen NEPA declare its intention to bring court action against them.

“We are still not commenting just yet,” Kayon Wallace, Windalco’s senior information and public affairs officer, told the Observer.

See full report in the Sunday Observer.