A closer look at Sampur coal power plant (Part 2)

09th June 2015, www.island.lk, By Eng. Parakrama Jayasinghe

 

Cost of the Externalities – Health and Environmental Impacts

 

All of above deals with only the cost items 1-5. But what about the all important item 6,- Externalities. This deals the impact on many sectors of which the health and environmental degradation are the most important. While the CEB refused to even acknowledge the existence of such a cost in the past, their last long term generation plan, 2013-2032 appeared to give some consideration to this aspect.

 

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