EFL has compiled a report detailing its comments on the Supplementary Impact Assessment for the proposed Port City Project. The report notes many flaws and deficiencies in the SEIA such as the absence of strategies for mitigating climate change impacts, lack of consideration of the loss of the historically significant Galle Face premise and insufficient consultation with environmental authorities and agencies for a project of such a massive scale.
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