"Brașov City Hall continues the program to eliminate industrial pollutants from inside residential areas, a program that aims to improve the air quality at the level of the municipality, so that the residents of Brasov can breathe cleaner and cleaner air. This is also the reason why Brașov has assumed, at the European level, two brave targets: the 55% reduction of CO2 emissions by 2030 and climate neutrality by 2050", announces the mayor's office in Brasov.
After the blocking of the two asphalting stations in the Bartolomeu neighborhood, following the address sent by the Brașov City Hall, the Environmental Protection Agency announced, on February 22, the rejection of the request to review the integrated environmental authorization for the Lime Factory on Carierei street.
"Through this decision, which rejected the request for the Lime Factory to continue operating, the residents of Brasov won their right to cleaner air. It is primarily a victory for the citizens of the area, who for years have reported and filed numerous petitions regarding pollution. Even if those from the Lime Factory started authorization procedures for another company, this cannot change an absolute truth: according to urban planning documents, the Stejeriș Lime Factory operates in a residential area, pollutes and falls under the category of functions prohibited in that area, according to the PUG. We hope that the residents of Brasov will no longer have to deal with the dust that comes out through the exhaust systems of these economic agents that operate in residential areas. It is our responsibility, of all public authorities, to ensure that we can provide them with this," said Mayor Allen Coliban.
At the end of November 2022, Brașov City Hall notified the Environmental Protection Agency, as part of the procedure for obtaining the environmental authorization for the Lime Factory on Carierei Street, that there are numerous petitions regarding pollution in the area. At the same time, according to urban planning documents, the Stejeriș Lime Factory operates in a residential area, and according to the General Urban Plan, this factory falls under the category of prohibited functions.
The municipality's request was for this factory to no longer receive an environmental permit and, implicitly, to relocate its activity to an industrial area. Given that the company that requested the environmental permit did not receive it, the owners of the lime factory resorted to a subterfuge and submitted a new request, to another company. And for this request, the City Hall submitted a new point of view, identical to the one in November, because the municipality's opposition refers to the activity of the lime factory and the pollution it produces, not the name of the company that owns it.
”The lime factory on Carierei just ran out of environmental authorization. It can no longer work. Soon, the sea of dust that the residents of Brasov endured will be history. I started with Fincodrum. The Recon asphalt station in Bartolomeu followed. Now it's the lime factory's turn. And we will continue. Clean air is an essential right of each of us. Ensuring it is a major obligation of a responsible administration”, says Coliban.
