The power plants that are said to be closed are working with poison.
It turned out that all 13 coal power plants, which were required to be closed in 2019 due to poisoning, have continued to operate for 1.5 years. Baran Bozoğlu, President of the Climate Change Policy and Research Association, which prepared the report, said, “People are being poisoned. The Ministry of Environment is paralyzed, unable to conduct inspections.
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Updated: 09:12, 04/06/2021
The power plants that are said to be closed are working with poison.
Another scandalous report has been published, revealing that human life and nature are disregarded in Turkey. The Climate Change Policy and Research Association (IDPAD) has published a report revealing that the coal power plants, which were supposed to be shut down at the beginning of 2020 as per the ‘veto’ decision of President Tayyip Erdoğan, have continued to operate with poison for 1.5 years.
In the report, it was stated that none of the 13 power plants made the investments required by the environmental legislation, and although they did not solve the flue gas and wild waste storage problems, they were allowed to emit poison by issuing a temporary operating certificate. İDPAD President Dr. Baran Bozoğlu stated that the veto decision was actually violated and said, “The Ministry of Environment is paralyzed and cannot carry out inspections.”
BOSSES PAID THEIR FEES
Dr. Bozoğlu shared the report titled “Customized Thermal Power Plants and Compliance Processes with Environmental Legislation”, which revealed the scandal, with the public. Stating that the coal-fired thermal power plants, which are claimed to have been closed at the beginning of 2020, continue to be operated by side roads, which are not implemented anywhere in the world, even though they have not completed their environmental investments, Bozoğlu said that although they were given 7 years until the end of 2019 to make the necessary investments in the power plants, they did not make the investments, and an additional 2.5 years in 2019. He said that the law envisaging a reaction was vetoed by President Erdogan.
Bozoğlu said, “Despite this veto, which pleases us all, the Ministry of Environment changed the regulation on 26 December 2019 and made all the power plant sites where toxic wastes are stored in the wild. This was done with temporary activity documents, which were prepared based on academic reports whose content was not clear, paid by the power plant bosses,” he said. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
THEY CONTINUE TO CONTAMINATE FOR 1.5 YEARS
President Bozoğlu stated that on January 1, 2020, the Ministers of Energy and Environment made a joint statement and announced to the public that Afşin Elbistan A, Seyitömer, Tunçbilek, Soma, Kangal, Çatalağzı thermal power plants were closed,
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