AGATHA
Joined: 03 Dec 2006
Posts: 45
Location: DAMMAM
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 Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:30 am Post subject: |
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| Jolly Green Giant wrote: |
There is pollution in Jubail. However, it is nowhere near obvious. I notice it only sometimes.
That is worrying.
Employees at the industrial plants here say that it is mostly ammonia. Most of the waste is treated and cleaned up. If there is pollution, I am not effected by it at all.
Don't you mean'affected by it' ?
How do you know without medical screening?
Neither has anyone mentioned to me that they themselves are effected either. But I have heard of people who are. For example:
Very recently, a family from the JIC moved out of Jubail to Damman since the pollution appeared to be the cause of pain in the bones and joints of one of the family members. Another was an elderly lady I got to know personally who was visiting Jubail for four months last year. She suffered terrible arthritical pain in her body. On returning home to her country of origin, the condition disappeared and she returned to normal. To this day, she is fine.
That is because she left
The problem, I am told, is that the residential area was built much too close to the industrial complex. For health reasons it should really have been built 15 kilometers away. In Jubail, the nearest and the oldest residential area which serves the JIC and other colleges is about 5 km away. From there and in the old town, you can smell fumes. Elsewhere in the residential area you really cannot.
Another is that the two areas are not separated by a large green zone or belt, as they ought to be. Forests and green areas provide a natural barrier to pollution drift and of course improve the air quality. Industrial Jubail is green and very attractive but there has been no attempt to erect pollution barriers. Perhaps that is because effective clean-up measures are already in use in local plants and therefore planting up a green belt would be superfluous. I believe this in fact is the case.
Jubail though is growing. How will adding more industrial plants in Jubail 2 impact the pollution levels and are there steps being taken to avoid excessive increases?
impact - is that a verb?
All said and done, I do feel fine and day-to-day if there is any pollution here, I am not impacted by it all, not even one iota. |
CORRECTIONS
affected
by one iota
don't use a capital letter after a colon
Pollution can cause aphasia. |
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