Minister of Environment Tariq Al-Khatib held a surprise field trip on Sunday morning to review the conditions of some plants in the Shaka and Anfa areas, accompanied by the director of the environmental pollution control project Marwan Rizkallah, the head of the environmental protection department, Al-Hamdan and media advisor Saad Elias.
Minister Al-Khatib started the tour from the site of the discharge of liquid waste to the sea, where the flow of large quantities of industrial black liquid without treatment to the sea directly.
He then visited the wastewater treatment plant in the Shaka area, which was established more than 10 years ago and is still idle because the network has not been completed. This has a negative impact on the random discharge of wastewater. The tour completed a visit to the sugar factory where a leak of black liquid waste was discovered in the adjacent waterway that ends in the sea.
It was also a station for the minister in two factories for the manufacture of salt where it was found the paradox between the workers where the first works without acceptable environmental conditions while the second works under appropriate environmental conditions, which confirms the possibility of the industry is prosperous and environmentally friendly.
Minister Al-Khatib went to the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture in Tripoli where he met with the President of the Chamber Tawfiq Daboussi in the presence of members and a number of factory owners. The Minister of Environment expressed his keenness on partnership, coordination and cooperation with the industrial sector. “We in the government do not raise the sword in the face of the industrialists, who we consider a cornerstone of the economic cycle, but we call for the reconciliation of industry and environmental protection. He stressed that the ministry has developed a program to secure soft loans at a rate of about zero percent for industrial enterprises to reduce the pollutants resulting from it through the project to combat environmental pollution Lepap, thus contributing to facilitate the access of industrial enterprises to environmental commitment.
After leaving the Chamber of Commerce, the Minister of Environment went to inspect the suspended sewage treatment plant and the waste dump in Tripoli and the waste treatment plant it operates will reduce waste production and pollution in the Abu Ali River.
