While opening the International Saudi Conference for Environment Technology organized by KACST in Riyadh yesterday, the prince explained the patronage of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah of the event represents the government’s interest in the environment.

Prince Turki said at the conference: “There’s a wrong perception that countries exporting and importing oil don’t care about the environment. The Kingdom, which is one of the biggest countries in the oil exporting field, gives much attention to the environment.”

The conference’s activities started with three sessions, including one headed by Assistant Supervisor of the Atomic Power Research Institute Dr. Majed Bukhari on soil pollution and ways to treat it.

Another session on pollution and quality of air was headed by the supervisor of the Environment Technology National Center at KACST Dr. Badr Al-Harby.

This session ended with a paper on controlling traffic pollution in the Kingdom presented by Ahmed Al-Hazmi, ecological affairs manager at SABIC. “The Kingdom’s cities are growing increasingly due to the increasing numbers of cars in the Kingdom. So, to control the pollution here we have to take decisive actions,” he said.