By AP/KWMU
St. Louis, MO – The Peruvian government is offering a compromise in its dispute with the St. Louis-based Doe Run Company, over Doe Run's planned cleanup of toxic pollution in that country.
Contrary to a report in Wednesday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch, company officials say they did not win an extension of the proposed cleanup.
As part of the compromise, Peru Tuesday offered mining companies three-year extensions on mandated environmental cleanups, if those companies met certain requirements.
Doe Run spokeswoman Barb Shepard says negotiations with Peruvian officials continue over the cleanup of the toxic mess it inherited when it bought the plant in 1997.
Some 4,000 workers this week blocked Peru's central Andean highway -- part of a two-day strike to lobby for more time to reduce the site's toxic emissions.