

Tata Chemicals said by next month, it would commission a bio-fuel plant in Maharashtra. The company was planning to invest $500 million for the soda ash manufacturing plant. Tata Chemicals had also planned to build a pipeline to carry soda slurry across the lake and accommodation for an estimated 1,225 construction workers and 152 permanent staff. So unless they come to us, we will not initiate anything,” Gopalakrishnan said. “So we said let the government get clearances and then we will come for it. “However, various environmentalists thought some flamingos will be affected,” he said.Įarlier, Tata Chemicals offered to move the factory 32 km from Lake Natron in northern Tanzania to address the concerns.

Das liegt daran, dass Natron erst in Kombination mit Säure seine volle Wirkung im Teig entfaltet, Backpulver dagegen bereits ein Säuerungsmittel enthält.

So a joint venture company was formed with the government to investigate the possibilities. Oft ist Natron auch Bestandteil von Backpulver, das beim Backen zwar dieselbe Funktion erfüllt, aber nicht eins zu eins durch Natron zu ersetzen ist. R Gopalakrishnan, vice chairman, Tata Chemicals, told DNA Money that the initial plan was to build a soda ash plant in the Rift Valley basin. Many scientists have written to the authorities in Tanzania and Kenya asking to cancel the project. Media reports have said that the proposed facility would harm the survival of 75% of the world’s flamingos. With backing from the government of Tanzania, Tata Chemicals had proposed to construct a plant with a capacity of 5,00,000 tonne of soda ash (sodium bicarbonate) at Lake Natron.īut the project has attracted worldwide opposition and recently, about 250 scientists attending the Pan-African Ornithological Congress in South Africa rejected the plans to build the plant. The company will wait for the country’s government to provide all the necessary clearances before taking any action. Faces opposition from scientists, environmentalistsīABRALA (Uttar Pradesh): Tata Chemicals, the Mumbai-based soda ash maker under the Tata group, does not seem optimistic about building its delayed soda ash plant at Lake Natron in Tanzania.
