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The Gulf Conference on
Environment and Sustainability 3rd – 5th December, 2005
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The
Conference Recommendations |
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1. Public Awareness and Curriculum |
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2. Air Pollution and Sewage |
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Increase Public awareness through
media and enhancing the programs to the youth and students at the level
of general educations and colleges; encouragement of NGOs and volunteers
and providing them with necessary needs, mostly with manpower and
finance; link curriculum with local, regional and international
environmental concerns; encouragement of research on environmental
issues; introducing environmental prospective in the curriculum;
enhancement of college centers of excellency in regards with
environment; train local volunteers on follow-up, investigations and
environmental impact assessment. Sincere thanks from the conference to
the large role played by the center of volunteers under the supervision
of Shaikha Amthal Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Saba |
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One of the main concerns
discussed is air pollution and the control of stack emission from power
stations, refineries and vehicles. The conference recommended that crude
oil must be limited in sulphur content and cut down to less than 1% to
minimize the impact of emission to the environment; request all local
industries to separate industrial liquid from sewage dump, there should
be units linked to the factories to recycle both industrial and sewage
waste; all car wash must comply with EPA rules and regulations by
sending loop oil to the specific designations and never dump the used
oil into the storm drain systems and there should be a mobile unit to
treat the industrial effluent; there should be an agreement on the
principle of polluter penalties; transparency is a must to control air
pollution from source and non-source point pollution. |
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3. Environmental Impact
Assessment (EIA) |
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4. Soil
Contamination and Desertification |
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There should be rules followed by all governments and
Private Sectors by doing an EIA and baseline study for any project. |
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There
must be a quick solution and remediation for contaminated soil (oil
lakes); stop dumping used oil in evaporation pits; there must be
alternatives to protect the natural resources; there must be a long term
plan of action to control desertification and to control over-camping on
sensitive areas; there should be a local area for camping and the
duration for camping should be less than four months. |
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