India, Feb. 23 -- This marks a new phase in the over three-year long legal battle against INEOS' 'Project One', a €3 billion plastic project in Belgium

ClientEarth, a global environmental organisation, along with Greenpeace, WWF and 12 other non-profits took a fresh legal stand against INEOS, the British petrochemicals giant which continues its efforts to build what would be Europe's biggest plastics project.

The fresh legal action by the NGOs challenges the Flemish Authority's approval of INEOS' new permit on January 4, 2024 for the €3 billion plastic project in Belgium.

The project in the Port of Antwerp, Belgium received the conditional permit. However, it was declared illegal by a Belgian court in July 2023, as the nitr...