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Dumped gas cylinders pose danger to Shaab |
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Monday, 14 June 2010 08:14 |
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KUWAIT: The Shaab area faces a possible "catastrophe" due to the dumping of hundreds of potentially highly explosive cooking gas cylinders outdoors in scorching direct sunlight
following the closure of the local Cooperative Society's cooking gas cylinder outlet, officials have warned. The Co-op's board members have issued an urgent plea to state bodies to intervene in providing safe storage for the cylinders to avert disaster.
Co-op CEO Mohammad Al-Hazaim asserted that the Cooperative officials would refuse to be held responsible for any disaster that takes place as a result of the cylinders being so dangerously abandoned "after the municipality abruptly closed the shop.
Al-Hazaim warned that any of the cylinders could explode spontaneously, setting off the others, due to long exposure to Kuwait's extreme summer temperatures, posing a grave danger to the area's 7,000 residents given the large number of cylinders abandoned.
The Co-op head urged the ministers of municipality affairs and of social affairs and labor, as well as MPs, to take immediate action to prevent such a disaster from taking place, reported Al-Rai. The Co-op's cooking gas cylinder outlet was closed by municipality officials after the Co-op board failed to obtain the necessary licenses for its relocation within the time frame given.
Al-Hazaim explained that the Co-op had been renting the closed site from the municipality after a local bank voided the contract for a loan to be used in funding the relocation of the outlet. The shop was then closed down in compliance with a court order issued by the bank, he added, despite the fact that a legal case previously filed by the Co-op against the bank in question has still not been heard in court. - Kuwait Times
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