From The Standard: Filthy air hung over several areas in Guangdong and Hong Kong, the new pollution index revealed Wednesday. The government’s plan to give residents daily updates on air quality got off to a bad start when a technical hitch at the Environment Protection Department delayed the first bulletin by more than 30 minutes. […]
Read MoreFrom the Straits Times: A blast at a PetroChina plant in north-eastern Jilin province on Nov 13 spilt 100 tonnes of benzene into the Songhua River. Officials waited nine days before they cut Harbin’s water supply and claimed initially that it was for maintenance. They acknowledged the massive water pollution only later. All responsible parties […]
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Read MoreFrom the Economist: A public apology from China is an exceptionally rare event. But as a slick of toxic water makes its way along the half-frozen Songhua River towards the Russian city of Khabarovsk, the country’s leadership is saying sorry. This is not, however, to be read as a sign of an imminent end to […]
Read MoreFrom The TIME Asia Magazine: A huge chemical spill shuts down a city’s water”and another clumsy official cover-up is exposed. There was never any possibility of covering up the major industrial accident that rocked the Jilin Petrochemical Company last month. The 50-year-old facility, built with Soviet technology, is China’s showcase chemical complex, alma mater to […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: I Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao made an unannounced visit to this beleaguered city Saturday to pledge his support as a long slick of toxic river water continued moving through town. But he offered no explanation for the government’s attempt to cover up a chemical spill that has left millions here without […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the New York Times: China’s northeastern city of Harbin turned on the taps again on Sunday after a toxic spill into its river left millions without water for five days and an 80-km (50-mile) slick still flowing beyond the city. Water supplies in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province, were resumed at 1000 […]
Read MoreFrom The Newsweek: A massive chemical spill in China pits activists and an increasingly aggressive media against the government. Even before the disaster hit, Hu Fengbin was ready to sue. The Beijing lawyer had long suspected that a petrochemical plant upriver from his home in Harbin was spewing pollution into the river. When he heard […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: The government on Thursday blamed China’s biggest oil company for a pollution spill that allowed an 80-kilometer slick of toxic benzene to reach this northern city of almost four million people on a river that normally supplies it with running water. In this increasingly unwashed and unflushed city, residents continued […]
Read MoreFrom The Times Online: A THOUSAND Chinese soldiers were drafted in this weekend to stack 300 tons of filters at a waterworks in the industrial city of Harbin in a desperate effort to solve a pollution crisis that has cut off water to more than 3m people. Mains supplies were shut off for a fifth […]
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