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Originally Posted by natureguy
In india there have been many similar issues. I think that this issue can be solved by interference of government only.
1) If these plants are put up in areas near residence, its emission would harm the residents.
2) If these plants are put up in some remote region away from any human residence, then how does one expect to run the plant? People are required to run these factories so they will have to run vehicles that bring their labourers from nearby areas. Now this would add to emissions as well as cost of the end products.
Actually solution should be use of green technologies in capping emissions from this factories.
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The irony is that in Trinidad & Tobago, there has recently been conflicts between communities and a steel company from India - Essar Steel. At the moment, Essar is seeking permission to build another steel plant – but they are having major obstacles from protests by fishermen since in order to build a port for the plant they need to remove vast acreages of mangrove from the coastline. They are required by the “no-net-loss” policy to replant mangrove elsewhere, but that will not help the fishermen.
·The Trinidad Guardian -Online Edition Ver 2.0 (Saith assures anti steel mill protesters: Mangrove will be replaced)
·The Trinidad Guardian -Online Edition Ver 2.0 (Essar: Steel plant will be built)
·InternationalReports.net : Trinidad & Tobago 2005