DoE fines cement factory Tk 27.62 lakh
The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined Holcim Bangladesh Tk 27.62 lakh for releasing fly ash into the air, subsequently polluting the environment, while unloading it from a ship at its factory.
DoE Director (enforcement) Mohammad Munir Chowdhury had gone on a visit to the company's factory adjacent to the Meghna river on July 4 where he witnessed the pollution going on.
Munir summoned the factory's Managing Director Rajnish Kapur to DoE office where the latter confessed that pollution was going on and sought six months to set up necessary equipment to prevent air pollution.
However, Holcim Bangladesh Vice President (Business Development) Niaz Uddin Mahmood claimed that the firm had been fined for the dust that was being released from their clinker unloading system.
“All cement factories in Bangladesh and developing countries follow the clinker unloading system which we follow. As the DoE authorities directed us to set up pollution protection measures, we assured them that we would do it as soon as possible,” he said.
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