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SANSA becomes an ally of the environment, October 22, 2007
The National Air Service Company (Sansa) will compensate the environmental pollution that its air fleet will generate until 2011 while transporting national and foreign tourists to the 16 different vacation points that the national territory offers.
This is due to the fact that the representatives of the company signed an agreement with the National Fund for Forestry Financing (Fonafifo), in which they agree to finance the protection of hectares of forest land according to the amount of fuel that is used by the airplanes.
The action is part of the Environmental Service Payment Program, promoted by the public institution that seeks the reduction of greenhouse effect gas emissions produced in the country.
With this agreement, the national airline will compensate from the beginning more than 5,740 tons of carbon dioxide that were emitted by the nine Cessna Grand Caravan airplanes that they own, with its 2006 operation. It will assign $15 thousand to finance the protection of approximately 48 hectares of land in the Peninsula of Osa.
As for the aviation sector, Nature Air was the first company to establish an environmental commitment. This Company signed an agreement in 2003 and it protects more than 120 hectares of forest.
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