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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Sandra Laville and Lisa O'Carroll

Jim Ratcliffe’s vast petrochemical plant in Antwerp faces new legal challenge

Sir Jim Ratcliffe, second from right, pictured at the European industry summit in Antwerp on Tuesday, with Alexander De Croo, prime minister of Belgium, second from left, and Ursula von der Leyen, right.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe, second from right, pictured at the European industry summit in Antwerp on Tuesday, with Alexander De Croo, prime minister of Belgium, second from left, and Ursula von der Leyen, right. Photograph: REX/Shutterstock

The creation of the biggest petrochemical plant in Europe in 30 years faces a new legal challenge by a group of NGOs arguing that the true impact of the development on people, nature and the climate has not been considered.

Client Earth lodged papers on Wednesday evening in court which aim to halt the building of Project One, a vast cracking plant to produce the chemicals to make plastic, which is being built in Antwerp by Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s company Ineos.

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