Relocating Industries and Business to Regional Areas

In some countries, governments are encouraging industries and businesses to move to regional areas outside the big cities. Do the advantages of this trend outweigh the disadvantages?
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Relocating Industries and Business to Regional Areas

It is a good idea to locate industries and business to regional or rural areas than thickly populated city areas. I shall elaborate my viewpoint in this essay to support this idea.

Every industry discharges waste. Quantum of discharge depends upon size of the industry. Big industries discharge larger waste. Also industries during the operation cause heat emission that escalates Global Warming. Big cities are usually very thickly populated and industrial discharge and heat emissions cause severe pollution and global warming problems.

Rural areas have less population and larger availability of free land. Cost of land is far more less than that of urban area land. Hence it is cost effective too. Unemployed youth get employment opportunity thereby easing problems of overcrowding in city areas.

Hydro Carbon Processing Industries like Petroleum Refineries, Petrochemicals, Gas and other Chemical Industries like Fertilizers etc can cause severe pollution and heat emission. Gases cause air pollution, and chemical effluents cause water pollution. Said pollution is highly injurious to the human and animal health.

Oil and Gas industries are susceptible to hazards like fire and bursting of gas cylinders and allied equipments like Horton Spheres, Boilers, Furnaces and other pressure vessels etc. In such eventuality the available space for fire fighting is most important which is ample in regional rural areas unlike city areas. In city areas, such mishap endangers neighbouring residents and other business establishments. Such possibility of loss to men, material and money is ruled out if the industry is located in the regional rural areas.

To summarise, relocating the industries from thickly populated and overcrowded city area to the regional rural area is an excellent idea and the advantages of this idea outweigh the disadvantages like distance and approachability.

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