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Business people suing Plovdiv over air pollution

Fri, Sep 16 2011 15:03 CET

byThe Sofia Echo staff

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Business people suing Plovdiv over air pollution

Photo: Svetla Dobreva

Business people suing Plovdiv over air pollution

Photo: Svetla Dobreva

Business people suing Plovdiv over air pollution

Photo: Svetla Dobreva

Business people suing Plovdiv over air pollution

Photo: Maria Subotinova

Business people suing Plovdiv over air pollution

Photo: Anelia Nikolova

A group of business people is taking court action against the municipality of Plovdiv, saying that the Bulgarian city's air pollution has been found to be among the worst of any city in Europe, television station bTV said on September 16 2011.

Research in 2008 had found the rate of dirty air to be among the highest in Europe and three years later, nothing had changed, BTV said.

Lawyer Mikail Ekmidjiev said that for the past 10 years, Plovdiv's strategies against air pollution existed only on paper.

The city had no heavy polluting industry, yet had serious air pollution. The explanation was a "black oil lobby" that prevented the city being gasified, Ekmidjiev was quoted as saying.

The plaintiffs, in a class action, would seek not damages but action by the municipality.

They said that laboratory tests had found that for 200 days of the year, fine dust particles exceeded acceptable levels.

The municipality responded that in the past six months, it had made significant progress against air pollution in Plovdiv, bTV said. It said that the main source of dirty air was the coal burnt in winter for heating.

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