Mumbai-based environment group objects to draft fly ash management rules
A city-based environment group has written to the Union environment ministry registering its objections to the latest draft notification pertaining to the use of fly ash, a by-product of coal combustion by thermal power plants (TPP). The draft notification, which aims to achieve “100% utilisation of fly ash by coal- or lignite-based thermal power plants” and “sustainability of fly ash management system”, is open for public feedback for a period of two months from April 22.
The Conservation Action Trust (CAT), an environment group headquartered in Ghatkopar, has submitted 20 comments on the draft notification, which can be accessed on the ministry’s website. Experts who spoke to Hindustan Times expressed concern at three broad additions to the draft rules, which were last amended in 2016.
