Dhi Qar pursues activities that violate the environment with 1,200 lawsuits

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[size=52]Dhi Qar pursues activities that violate the environment with 1,200 lawsuits[/size]

[size=45]Dhi Qar / Hussein Al-Amel[/size]
[size=45]The Dhi Qar Environment Directorate revealed 1,200 lawsuits to prosecute activities that violate conditions, specifications, and environmental controls. While it indicated that the lawsuits include government departments and private projects that harm the environment, it confirmed the continuation of oversight measures aimed at preserving the environmental balance and creating a clean environment free of pollution.[/size]
[size=45]Dhi Qar Environment Director, Dr. Mohsen Aziz, told Al Mada: “The Environmental Police Center has filed more than 1,200 lawsuits since its establishment until now to prosecute activities that violate and are harmful to the environment,” noting that “the center is administratively affiliated with the Civil Defense Directorate and works technically with the Environment Directorate in The field of conducting environmental inspections and filing lawsuits against violating activities.”[/size]
[size=45]He stated that “the lawsuits filed include governmental and private activities, and a large portion of them have been resolved, while the other portion is still under investigation.”[/size]
[size=45]Regarding the nature of the violating activities, Aziz said, “The most prominent violating activities are the unsanitary landfill sites spread throughout Dhi Qar Governorate, which do not adhere to environmental specifications and conditions, and thus these sites are exposed to burning operations by some citizens, which results in air pollution with polluting fumes that are harmful to human health and life.” .[/size]
[size=45]The Dhi Qar Environment Director continued, “There are also sewage stations that discharge their liquid waste into rivers and water sources without proper treatment, and this is considered a violation that requires taking the required legal measures.” He added, “While there are other violations in hospitals and health institutions through discharging liquid and polluted waste through sewage network without carrying out the required treatment,” noting that “the Environment Directorate has taken all legal measures regarding these violating activities and is following them up periodically for the purpose of reducing pollution.”[/size]
[size=45]Aziz touched on the work of the supervisory teams in the Environment Directorate, saying that “the supervisory staff continues its supervisory activity in the field of following up on polluting activities in the center of the city of Nasiriyah and outside it,” stressing that “the goal of oversight is to determine the environmental reality and reduce environmental violations.”[/size]
[size=45]Aziz spoke about monitoring environmental violations in a number of governmental and private activities in which legal measures were taken, indicating that “among the administrative measures taken to reduce pollution is issuing a warning to the violating activities, and if they do not comply and address these violations, they will be closed, and if their owners do not comply with the closure procedures, they will be punished.” The owner of the violating activity filed a lawsuit before the competent courts by the Environmental Police Center.”[/size]
[size=45]He stressed that control measures are continuing for the purpose of creating a clean environment free of pollution.[/size]
[size=45]In turn, the official in charge of the Environmental Protection Police Station in Dhi Qar Governorate, Brigadier Rashid Obaid Jassim, said, “The lawsuits filed from 2009 until the present include all types of pollution related to air, soil, water, radioactive and noise pollution, in addition to violations related to mobile phone towers and Internet towers.”[/size]
[size=45]Jassim stated in a previous statement to (Al-Mada), that “the penalties issued in accordance with the Environmental Protection and Improvement Law include financial fines or imprisonment and obligating governmental and non-governmental agencies or the violating person to lift the violation.”[/size]
[size=45]Stressing that “the purpose of the prosecution of violating parties aims to preserve the environmental balance and protect the environment,” noting that “all lawsuits filed in this area are conducted in coordination with the Dhi Qar Environment Directorate, which initiates environmental cases and files lawsuits through the Environmental Protection Police Station before the judge.” Environmental specialist.[/size]
[size=45]The environmental reality in Dhi Qar Governorate, whose center is the city of Nasiriyah (375 km south of the capital, Baghdad), faces a number of challenges represented by the lack of green spaces, the frequent dust storms, the widespread encroachment of sand dunes, in addition to irregular waste dumps, random islands, lack of municipal services, and the dumping of sewage. In rivers that are used as sources of drinking water, as well as pollutants and waste released by industrial and professional establishments and activities that violate environmental controls and determinants.[/size]
[size=45]Waste and random burning in sanitary landfill sites in Dhi Qar Governorate pose a great danger to the people and nearby areas, as many residents of the areas suffer from respiratory diseases resulting from clouds of smoke and unpleasant odors emanating from waste fires, which has prompted groups of residents to organize vigils and demonstrations. In protest against the failure to address the waste problem.[/size]
[size=45]Dhi Qar Governorate includes more than 12 sanitary landfill sites distributed among the districts and districts of the governorate, but only two or three of them comply with the approved environmental specifications and controls, which necessitated the prosecution of the departments responsible for them through legal and judicial procedures, as officials in the Environment Directorate indicate that several warnings have been issued. More than one complaint was filed against the concerned departments before the competent courts.[/size]
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