Environment Minister Khaled Fahmy said the announcement of the coal use requirements that was scheduled for January has been postponed to February to incorporate power plants, cement factories and other industries.
The minister added that the cement factories are able to apply the new requirements fast because they have already updated their equipment to serve that purpose.
“The bylaws of the cement factories were changed in August 2012,” he said. ‘We became more stringent regarding the dust that comes out of those factories.”
He also said that he had to give a grace period for the factories to readjust their equipment, as happened all over the world. “I could not issue a decision to be implemented immediately,” he said.
