Sesa Goa Ordered to Stop Met Coke Plant
09/07/2012 - Sesa Goa Ltd. was ordered by the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) to stop activity at its metallurgical coke plant due to two incidents of soot emissions owing to the misfiring by two high-capacity burners during the commissioning of a second bettery on 17 & 18 August.
Sesa Goa Ltd. was ordered by the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) to stop activity at its metallurgical coke plant due to two incidents of soot emissions owing to the misfiring by two high-capacity burners during the commissioning of a second bettery on 17 & 18 August.
The company has informed the GSPCB that the root cause of the soot emissions were immediately addressed and that necessary corrective actions have already been taken.
Sesa says it regrets the incident and remains committed to maintaining the highest standards of environmental safeguards.
Sesa is India's largest producer and exporter of iron ore in the private sector. It is a majority-owened and controlled by subsidiary of Vedanta Resources plc, a London-listed metals and mining company. Sesa has iron ore mining operations in Goa and Karnataka. It is developing the Western Cluster Iron Ore Deposits into a large integrrated iron ore project in Liberia. It is also involved in the manufacturing or pig iron and metallurgical coke, with a 560,000 tonnes per annum met coke plant and a 625,000 tonners per annum pig iron plant in Goa.
