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Goa port suspends coking coal handling due to air pollution
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SME Times News Bureau | 16 Feb, 2019
The state pollution authority has temporarily suspended all coking coal
handling operations at Goa's Mormugao Port Trust, due to "deteriorating
air quality" at the port town of Vasco, located 35 km from Panaji.
Goa
State Pollution Control Baord's order on Friday impacts JSW Steel,
which operates a subsidiary South West Port Limited, which imports
coking coal at the state's only major port, and transports it to its
steel plants in north Karnataka, where the coal is used to fuel blast
furnaces.
The suspension order cum show cause notice issued by
the Chairman of the Goa State Pollution Control Board, Ganesh
Shetgaonkar said that coal handling operations have been suspended due
to windy conditions, which leads to soot being transported into
residential areas in the port town.
The temporary suspension
order comes at a time when the port town has seen a series of protests
from Opposition parties as well as local residents, who have complained
of health issues due to pollution caused by coal soot.
The order
has also sought an explanation from the coke handling company on
measures it proposes to take for controlling pollution by February 21.
The
Mormugao Port Trust annually handles nearly seven million tons of
coking coal, even as the port authority has sought for doubling of the
coal handling capacity to 14 million tons.
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