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Dar es Salaam, Sep 10 Tanzania's environmental watchdog announced that it has fined nine oil companies a total of 5.1 billion Tanzanian shillings ($2.2 million) over the violation of environmental rules.In a statement on Thursday, Samuel Gwamaka, the Director General of state-run National Environment Management Council (NEMC), said the nine companies have been fined after it was established that they constructed filling stations across the country without undergoing an environmental impact assessment (EIA), reports Xinhua news agency."The nine oil companies should pay the fines within 14 days beginning Friday," Gwamaka told a news conference in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam.He said an ongoing crackdown on oil companies that are operating filling stations without undergoing the EIA across the country has established that there are about 393 companies flouting the environmental rule.He said NEMC has established that most of the oil companies have constructed filling stations without EIA, adding that the crackdown was continuous.Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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International :Tanzania fines 9 oil firms over violating environmental rules

Dar es Salaam, Sep 10 Tanzania's environmental watchdog announced that it has fined nine oil companies a total ... ...