Jim Ratcliffe’s vast petrochemical plant in Antwerp faces new legal challenge
by Sandra Laville and Lisa O'Carroll from Environment | The Guardian on (#6JT4E)
Proposed Project One cracking plant is hugely destructive', says Client Earth
The creation of the biggest petrochemical plant in Europe in 30 years faces a new legal challenge by a group of NGOs arguing that the true impact of the development on people, nature and the climate has not been considered.
Client Earth lodged papers on Wednesday evening in court which aim to halt the building of Project One, a vast cracking plant to produce the chemicals to make plastic, which is being built in Antwerp by Sir Jim Ratcliffe's company Ineos.
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