DoE fines industry for pollution
Department of Environment (DoE) fined two brickfield owners Tk 5 lakh after a drive at Anwara upazila in Chittagong yesterday for destroying hills and the environment.
DoE Director (Monitoring and Enforcement) Mohammed Munir Chowdhury cancelled the environmental clearance certificate of the brickfields, Messrs Chak Bricks and Messrs Hossain Bricks. He also directed to close those within one month, says a press release.
The owners were collecting soil for the bricks by cutting hills.
In another drive in Noakhali sadar upazila, DoE fined Md Anwar Uddin Haoladar, Dharmapur union parishad member, Tk 2 lakh for lifting sand illegally at East Shoolakia village of the union.
Anwar, without any DoE permission, was lifting sand by digging the soil beside the airport at the village, causing cracks to develop at the airport. A total 3,000 cubic feet of sand was also seized from the place.
On October 4, DoE fined Polymer Knitwear Industries Ltd Tk 35 lakh and closed the production of its dyeing unit for running without an effluent treatment plant and environmental clearance certificate.
It was discharging a huge amount of untreated liquid waste into the Turag river through Kamarjhuri canal, causing serious environmental pollution, says the release.
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