FAISALABAD: The Environment Protection Department claimed on Tuesday to have sealed a brick kiln for using old technology which polluting the environment. Deputy Director Environment Johar Abbas Randhawa said here on Tuesday the environment team checked various brick kilns and found a brick kiln in operational near Chak No.125-RB Sangla Road without zigzag technology.
The team sealed premises of the kiln house and got a case registered against its owner on charge of violating Punjab Environmental Protection (Smog Prevention and Control) Rules. Meanwhile, the environment teams re-sealed premises of boilers in a sizing unit at Sammundri Road near Chak No.243-RB Bhatta Stop, food unit Sammundri Road, Phonics Lubricant near Chak No.70-JB Mansooran Bypass Road and lodged reports for the registration of cases against their owners on the charge of breaking seals of their boilers.
Similarly, the environment team also imposed a fine of Rs 200,000 on the owner of a food unit situated at Sammundri Road and sealed it
s oil heater for polluting the environment by burning the prohibited material.