A month after the cabinet announced a controversial plan to import coal to offset a power crisis at cement factories, the debate over the impacts of the decision is still raging. Omar Mhanna, chairman of Suez Cement Group, which owns five factories across the country with a total yield of about 12m tons of clinker per year, said production at cement plants decreased by 11% last year because of oil and natural gas shortages...On the other side of the debate, Ahmed Droubi, general coordinator of the campaign “Egyptians Against Coal”, said cement plants have a history of being “rude” and failing to comply with Egyptian environmental and health standards...