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Clear proposals of flyash-brick manufacturers in 6 weeks: HC

The High Court has asked the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) to clear applications filed by manufacuturers of bricks using flyash-sand-lime technology within six weeks. The DPCC first gives permission to set up a unit and then to operate. All incoming proposals and the pending ones should be disposed off in a month-and-a-half, said a division bench comprising Chief Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justice D K Jain. Their directions followed two petitions filed by the Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) and advocate B L Wadehra, which said the government has failed to prevent dumping of flyash in land fields which is an environment hazard.

The petitioners also urged effective utilisation of flyash in building and construction activities. The manufacture of bricks using the flyash-sand-lime technology does not cause pollution as the bricks are cured using an electric process. CPIL counsel Rakesh Khanna said the DPCC refused to permit operations of two manufacturers who were earlier brick kiln makers but have now invested huge amounts to make flyash bricks. The two manufacturers have not surrendered the land as per Supreme Court orders, the DPCC said in its letter on January 5. Five days later, it directed the units to remain closed. On April 28, the Supreme Court said matters regarding brick kilns will be taken separately and the order of land surrender will not apply to them. The DPCC should be directed to grant the two units permission to operate, Khanna told the court.

Power stations in developing countries can go bankrupt by
European subsidy on greenhouse friendly energy production


Huizen, The Netherlands, August 15th. 2001

Letter to the Ambassador of the State of India Mrs. Shyamala B. Cowsik

To H.E. Ms. Shyamala B. Cowsik
Ambassador of India to the Netherlands
Buitenrustweg 2,
2517 KD The Hague


Your Excellency,

Herewith I send you a copy of my letter to the appropriate European Commissions on August 15th 2001, in order to warn for a possible economical disruption concerning the energy supply in developing countries, as well as for the consequences for all people because of the diffused spread of carcenogenic and toxic materials, such as heavy metals, into the air. The text speaks for itself.

With the highest regards,

Robert M. Brockhus
Westkade 227, 1273 RJ Huizen,
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 035-5244141
E-mail: sdn@planet.nl
Website: http://www.sdnl.nl/india.htm



Members of the committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy

Subject:
New type of economical colonialism in developing countries with subsidy of European Community


Huizen, The Netherlands, August 15. 2001

L.s.,

This is the third mail you receive from the Social Databank Netherlands. All members of your committee with an e-mail box will receive this mail, and the members of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer policy will be informed as well, next to the members of the committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market and on Budgetary Control. Also the appropriate contacts with the press will have a copy of this mail. In the Netherlands the government and all members of parliament with an e-mail address have received a third version, as well as the Dutch press and broadcasting services.

Thank you for your attention on a international problem deriving from the World Trade Organisation Treaty en the GATS treaty for services for our environment and our health; for now and in the future, especially for the solutions that are available today as shown with this video (click)



The Dutch ministry for the environment (VROM) mr. J. Pronk, claims ƒ 1.300.000.000 guilders or € 590.000.000 euro to subsidize the burning of (toxic) waste and biomass in electricity stations. The minister knows that huge quantities of heavy metals such as arsenic, chrome, mercury, cadmium and other carcinogenic toxins will be dispersed into the environment through the chimney exhaust.

In my opinion it is fraudelous to acquire community money to produce so called "Green current" in privatised energy stations, fuelled with coal in order to dispose of toxic biomass on a large scale, making excessive profits at the expense of health conditions of all Europeans. Besides this, the way this taxpayers money is used must be unacceptable, because in a neo-colonial way public funds result in private property in other and developing countries which will harm competition locally.

For example: NUON now invests with our public money in private energy stations in India in order to produce any amount of so called 'GREEN CURRENT' for the local market and with a certificate of an Indian office, NUON can collect 17 guilder cents or 7,7 euro cents for each kilowatt hour by burning (abundantly available) waste with an uncontrolled label 'BIOMASS'. This is new form of colonialism, financed with community money and ruining the local energy market (in India) for electricity, because the currency exchange rate between the guilder and or euro to the rupiah of India is so wide that local energy stations in India will go broke, just as the Berkel station did in Holland, that produced nearly clean electricity by fuelling with natural gas.

I herewith request to block this subsidy and appoint the use of those funds differently to invoke to days technology, called the "Zero-option", that was developed by a recycling company in the Netherlands. With this technology we can get rid of all toxic waste completely. To view this technology you can visit a website where de demonstration video is available. All spoken in Dutch of course. Do visit the website of the Social Databank Netherlands at http://www.sdnl.nl/video.html and choose the icon Edelchemie: de NUL-optie

Please let me know if you have understood what benefit the European community can have from this environmental solution.

Sincerely,

Robert M. Brockhus (webmaster of the SDN)


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