On Tuesday 1st November, the Congolese Environment Agency (CEA) inaugurated its first environmental monitoring laboratory. This CEA laboratory, a technical structure under the supervision of the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development, will promote autonomy in terms of analysis Physical-chemical influences and to rationalise financial resources.
According to the CEA ‘s project manager, Jean-Claude Emene, this laboratory will make it possible to make savings insofar as it used to resort to private laboratories to carry out physical-chemical analyses of influents taken from classified installations.
“This laboratory represents an important financial saving for us because to date we have been using two or three laboratories with which we work in partnership. We are now equipped with certain devices and materials that will allow us to carry out reliable and reassured analyses of the level of toxicity of the water in rivers, streams and the air. In short, the environment as a whole,” explains the CEA Policy Officer.
He also said that this laboratory will be used to have benchmarks, which did not exist before.
“We have no core values when it comes to assessing and approving environmental and social studies and monitoring the implementation of environmental and social management plans”.
The Deputy Prime Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development, Eve Bazaiba, called on companies to always use the CEA to verify the impact of their projects on the environment and surrounding communities.
It should be recalled that the laboratory of the Congolese Environment Agency (CEA) has fixed and mobile units capable of analysing water, air, waste and micropollutants. The brand new laboratory, the first of the CEA, was acquired with own funds.
