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ZENICA, January 7 (FENA) - General Manager of ArcelorMittal Zenica, Nikhil Mehta, today presented the activities they plan to undertake this year in order to further reduce emissions of harmful pollutants into the air in that city and obtain the Integrated Environmental Permit for which they have already applied.
He stated that SOx and NOx pollutant emissions are already within the limits for all plants, but that they have challenges for dust at the plants of Aglomeracija and Čeličana and at Koksara, where emissions are higher than the permitted limits and dust and diffuse emissions.
To underline emissions from the Koksara plant, he underlined, they have contracted projects worth four million euros this year, and they will have additional investments in the plants of Aglomeracija and Čeličana.
Since they launched the Zenica Heating Plant on gas on November 19 last year, they stopped using energy coal for work and heating of the city, so, as it was said, the emission of harmful gases caused by coal combustion was significantly reduced. Pollution of the Bosna River has also decreased, as has waste disposal at the Rača landfill.
“As part of the application for the issuance of the Integrated Environmental Permit, we have implemented 33 measures, five measures are being implemented, and two measures do not even need to be implemented. So far, we have invested more than 100 million euros in environmental protection alone and this shows our good intentions. We are citizens of Zenica and we will continue to be citizens of Zenica,” said Mehta.
According to him, all the measures taken have already contributed to better air quality in Zenica, which, he believes, is much less polluted than large cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, such as Sarajevo or Tuzla, although the city produces steel.
Mehta expressed satisfaction that the increase in electricity prices in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina will be only 20 percent, instead of 120 percent, which Elektroprivreda BiH originally planned to increase for the company in 2022.
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