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Expansion plans for potentially harmful battery plant fly under the radar in Hungary
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Samsung is set to expand its battery plant near the town of Göd by a further 43,000 square metres, as disclosed in a rather elusive government statement. An amendment to the environmental permit is already underway, with its approval nearly one hundred percent assured.
The battery plant will be expanded – but authorities are not keen to pass the word around
Mérce.hu has stumbled upon a statement from the Pest County Government Office declaring that two buildings and a connecting bridge would be erected on the site of the battery factory near Göd, a town north of Budapest.
Three new boilers are also to be added to the existing seven, and the number of production lines is to be increased from the current 12 to 16. The company also plans to raise the number of so-called “mixing” areas, where electrode production takes place.
According to the Government Office, the manufacturing technology for batteries will remain unchanged, utilising the same raw materials to produce existing product lines.
Overall, the expansion would increase production capacity by 20%, with the total area of the Göd battery plant expanding from 510 thousand to 553 thousand square metres. Consequently, annual organic solvent usage is projected to surge from 14.5 to 22 thousand tonnes.
The issue, as Mérce.hu points out, is that the expansion was not sufficiently publicised by authorities: “it was given the not very attention-grabbing title ‘Information’ on the website of Göd,” it notes, “while the county council, which is in charge of the special economic zone, does not even display it on its site.”
Residents express discontent over the expansion of the battery plant
The factory has already been the subject of several complaints from nearby residents, as it is located in the immediate vicinity of a residential area. Noise from the factory is a nuisance at night – a five-metre noise barrier is now being built in one section to remedy this issue.
So,the globalist-socialist s…kickers keep demanding we shunt our standard of living two centuries back by”going ‘green,'” which includes switching everything from fossil fuels and natural(!) gas to electric. (Of course, these batteries are WORSE for the environment than what they’re replacing but don’t tell anyone! Must toe the dogma line!) Now, even manufacturing these preposterous batteries is no good. I guess it’s better it be done in China and elsewhere so they can get the jobs and profits, and we can be even poorer and more miserable. Oh, and yeah, the environment that the manufacturing process destroys belongs to a totally different planet in China: If it gets polluted there, Earth will survive. It’s only OUR pollution, real and imagined, that’s destroying the planet! Honestly, this is just a circus side-show at this point.