UPI: China halts four power projects on environment concerns

From UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, via World Peace Herald:

Officials from China’s environmental agency have decided to allow work to resume on 26 of 30 projects which had not filed proper impact reports.

The State Environmental Protection Administration ordered building to stop Jan. 18 at various constructions sites, mainly hydroelectric and thermal power generating plants,

State-run media announced Saturday that work on most large projects could resume. Zhu Xingxiang, the division chief of SEPA’s environmental impact evaluation department was quoted saying most projects had now filed the impact assessments required by law.

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