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Article: Kazakhstan might close U.S.-owned power plant for legal violations.
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- November 17, 2003
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Kazakhstan might close U.S.-owned power plant for legal violations
ASTANA. Nov 17 (Interfax) - Operations at the Sogrinsky thermal power plant (TETs), which belongs to AES of the United States, might be suspended over violations of environmental law, the country's environment minister, Aitkul Samakova, announced at a Monday press conference.
"If it keeps on working the way it does today, we will close the Sogrinsky TETs even though it heats all of Ust-Kamenogorsk [the regional administrative center]," Samakova said.
The plant's management company will not be licensed to use natural resources as long as it does not redress the violations, she ...