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Sugar mill given deadline to control smoke
emission
PESHAWAR (March 31 2004): The Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) NWFP, has given two months
deadline to the management of Frontier Sugar
Mills, Takhtbai in district Mardan to take
preventive measures for smoke emission, otherwise
action against them would be taken under Pakistan
Environment Protection Act 1997.
Director General EPA NWFP Shaukat Zaman while
talking to Business Recorder here on Tuesday
disclosed this.
He said that the action has been taken on the
complaint of the residents lodged with his office.
He said that management of the mills has been
directed to take preventive measures to protect
the residents of the bad effects of the pollution
and added that the management of the mills has
also been directed to install a hurricane to
minimise the spread of the smoke in the area. The
mill exists in the middle of Takhtbai City.
Zaman said that the agency has registered 36 cases
against different industrial units in the province
for violation of the Pakistan Environmental
Protection Act and non-compliance of the National
Environmental Quality Stand (NEQS). He said that
they are taking notice of all complaints lodged
with them in this connection.
He said that different kind of complaints coming
to them in which he particularly mentioned the
complaint of a resident of University Town lodged
against the noise pollution of the landed
airplanes at Peshawar International airport. He
said that they had suggested solution to Civil
Aviation Authority (CAA).
Syed Zamir Hussain Shah, head of the Environmental
Tribunal, Lahore, who was also present there
informed that presently hearing in about 50 cases
are in progress with him. He urged on the
industrialists to adopt environment-friendly
measures for sustainable development in the
country.
The registration of cases against industrialists
has irked the business community in NWFP, who
consider it a conspiracy against the economic
development of the province.
The industrialists of the province are of the view
that they are not in a position to deposit
millions of rupees in form of fine with EPA.
The federal government under Pakistan
Environmental Protection Act, 1997 has announced
the establishment of seven environmental tribunals
in the country. However, only two of them have
been established of whom the Karachi tribunal is
still nonfunctional.
Courtesy Business Recorder |
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Pakissan.com; Advisory Point
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