IRON ORE AT GOA JETTIES SPARK POLLUTION ALARM
June 8th, 2014
The Goa State Pollution Control Board has denied that growing stocks of iron ore stacked on riverside jetties are posing a risk to the environment of this key Indian tourism centre. However, the board’s chairman Jose Manuel Noronah told Steel First that careful and constant monitoring would take place just in case. He said 50 board units were sampling river waters in the state to check for iron ore levels, publishing results every month. “We have found the iron levels within permissible limit of 0.3 mg so far,” he said.Mr Noronah was referring to reports ...
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