When the construction of some 30 big projects were suspended at a mandate from the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) in December 2004, China was taking the most notable move in enforcing environmental laws.
Their construction was put to a halt for the projects, most of them hydro- or thermal power plants, failed to have an environmental impact assessment according to law…
Interestingly, the top three on the “black list” were all hydro-power plants under China’s Three Gorges Project Company, which claims millions yuan of government input as key projects to alleviate the country’s energy plight and hinges on the same administrative level with SEPA. So the unprecedented campaign certainly incurred great pressure on SEPA.
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