KARACHI: The right activists, while speaking at a workshop titled ‘Proposed Karachi nuclear power plants: preparing for the EIA and public hearing’, organised by the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (Piler), have urged to the government to leave its plan to set up two nuclear power plants, K2 and K3, along Karachi coast without acquiring the mandatory Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report.
They asked the government to adopt alternative energy generating sources like solar power plant rather than opting for nuclear power plants, which may pose a serious threat to Karachi’s population.
The activists expressed concerns that a project which had never been tried before could prove to be a big danger for Pakistan in the long run. Eventually, the Sindh High Court ruled the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) and the Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) had violated the law by failing to conduct a proper and timely EIA. Since then the matter had been a subject of debate and discussion.
