A valid ConstructionNoisepermitissuedby the Environmental Protection Department is required for the carrying outofpercussivepiling during the permitted hours.
The directive limits the number of hours they can operate before shutting down, and many coal plants are choosing to burn through their remaining permittedhours by April when the UK government introduces a carbon floor price.
Choudhury, who publishes the independent newspaper The Weekly Blitz, was summoned to court on May 25 and made to stand on a dais in a room without air conditioning for several hours, and not permitted to sit.