By Mohammed Al A’Ali
ONLY environmental-friendly industries could be allowed to set up near homes under a new parliamentary proposal aimed at safeguarding the health of the population and pulling the plug on polluters.
The 10-member Southern Municipal Council backed a proposal to ban heavy industries in residential areas referred by Parliament’s public utilities and environment affairs committee.
Council chairman Bader Al Tamimi outlined that any action could not be retrospective but existing industries could be encouraged to install more noise and emission buffers.
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