{"id":1094110,"date":"2022-05-20T17:38:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T17:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/20\/vra-bares-teeth-at-sentuo-steel-over-pollution\/"},"modified":"2022-05-20T17:38:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T17:38:57","slug":"vra-bares-teeth-at-sentuo-steel-over-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/20\/vra-bares-teeth-at-sentuo-steel-over-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"VRA bares teeth at Sentuo Steel over pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\n                                                   Tema, May 20, GNA-The Volta River Authority (VRA) has hinted at sending  Sentuo Steel Limited, a Chinese company operating within the Tema industrial enclave, to court if it continues with activities that negatively affect its staff and power turbines.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1.21481197.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"kMediaObject\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The VRA named pollution as the main offence and cited air pollution in the form of thick smoke that comes from Sentuo Steel chimneys and thereby affecting the health of workers of the power-producing company.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Addressing the media at the Tema Thermal Power Complex (TTPC) of the Volta River Authority, Mr Samuel Anim Yeboah, Plant Manager TTPC stated that the Tema Thermal Power Complex had some key entities in the energy sector operating from the complex in Tema.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He noted that the activities of Sentuo Steel were affecting operations at the TTPC and it\u202fwas time the Environmental protection Agency (EPA) called Sentuo Steel to order.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He said aside from the smoke that invaded the complex, the wind also carried\u202fa mix of sand and iron dust directly into the turbines.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Mr Yeboah said the turbines needed to operate effectively in a cleaner environment, adding that the dust that emanates from Sentuo Steel choked the filters embedded in the power turbines which always increased the maintenance cost of VRA.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He\u202fsaid the Tema Thermal Power Complex had about 300 megawatts of installed capacity and the activities of the Steel Company could negatively affect the operations of VRA.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The TTPC Plant Manager revealed that efforts were made to address the issue since 2010 but to no avail stating that VRA could initiate some legal actions against Sentuo Steel if the situation continued\u202fto remain the same.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tema, May 20, GNA-The Volta River Authority (VRA) has hinted at sending Sentuo Steel Limited, a Chinese company operating within the Tema industrial enclave, to court if it continues with activities that negatively affect its staff and power turbines. The VRA named pollution as the main offence and cited air pollution in the form of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1094115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[8962,291,14393,14394,1123,2759],"class_list":["post-1094110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-bares","tag-pollution","tag-sentuo","tag-steel","tag-teeth","tag-vra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}