Hungarian green party calls for a referendum on the establishment of battery factories
A battery plant near Komárom, in northern Hungary, might be endangering citizens’ health as the cumulative effect of the plant’s multiple units on the environment has not been tested, opposition LMP warned on Thursday, after a public hearing at city hall.
Party spokesman József Gál told a press conference that the drinking water supply of the city would not be able to cover the needs of the plants. The use of water from springwater wells around nearby Tata are already depleting karst water in the area, he said.
Humidity in the air around the plants might concentrate pollution there, he added.
Gál slammed the Fidesz mayor of Komárom, Attila Molnár, for not answering questions on the battery plant.
LMP has initiated a referendum to make new battery plants conditional on residents’ consent, he noted.
At the public hearing, which was originally on the city budget, Molnár called the dispute on the plant expansion “political profiteering”.
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Source: MTI
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1 Comment
No use dreaming!
No one’s going to a see a referendum, especially not the locals living in the areas concerned.
Just the other day, my mom was telling me about what happened in Bophal (India) in 1984. She also told me about the Chernobyl disaster.