Flamingos seem to have dashed Tata Chemicals’ plan to set up a soda ash facility jointly with the Tanzanian government. The joint venture, for which both the parties have signed a memorandum of understanding, has drawn criticism from the NGOs and environmentalists on the ground that it would cause extinction to the world’s rarest birds—the lesser flamingo.
Faced with the criticism, the Lake Natron Resources, the newly formed company for carrying out the project, has appointed a consulting agency to conduct an environmental and social implication study.
The plant, to be set up on the shores of Lake Natron in northern Tanzania and near the Kenya border, has become a political issue as well.The Tanzanian government said it would go ahead with the project.
Read more in The Business Standard article.
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