Two of China’s largest oil producers are saying they will refuse to respect a new regulation requiring certain companies to purchase pollution insurance to cover environmental compensation claims, according to a state media report. From AFP via Yahoo! Asia News: Sinopec and CNPC, parent of Hong Kong-listed PetroChina, said that they can handle environmental compensation […]
Read More“Observation and Reflection” „ÄäËßÇÂØü‰∏éÊÄùËÄÉ„Äãis a biweekly news magazine published by the Academy of Social Sciences of Zhejiang province. The following excerpts, translated by CDT, are from an article in the latest issue, via sina.com: China is a country in which water resources are extremely scarce. The total non-salt water amount is 2, 800, 000,000,000 cubic […]
Read MoreFrom WIRED BLogs: The Chinese government has released new data showing that China will almost certainly pass the United States in 2007 or 2008 to become the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Based on data from the new study and from the International Energy Agency, the increase in the amount of China’s greenhouse gas […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China’s environmental watchdog has handed the maximum possible fine to a PetroChina subsidiary for a toxic river spill which cut off water to millions. Jilin Petrochemical was ordered to pay 1m yuan ($125,000, ¬£64,000) for its pollution of the Songhua River in 2005, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. A blast at its […]
Read MoreFormer SEPA vice minister Pan Yue (ÊΩòÂ≤≥) was recently promoted to be the #1 deputy (Á¨¨‰∏ÄÂâرÄÈïø), or executive vice minister, of China’s environmental watchdog agency, and he is launching China’s third “environmental protection storm.” From China Business News (Á¨¨‰∏ÄË¥¢ÁªèÊó•Êä•) via sina.com.cn (translated by CDT): Since the previous two “storms” in 2005 and 2006, Chinese State […]
Read MoreThe opinion pages of Guangzhou-based Southern Metropolis Daily live by a credo that one of its editors has phrased thus: “Almost anything can be written. It just depends on how you write it.” That may or may not explain the sharp turn Southern Metropolis takes with the case of Xie Zhenhua’s political resurrection this week. […]
Read MoreThe English-language wires all have pieces today on the political resurrection of Xie Zhenhua (ËߣÊåØÂçé), the former head of the State Environmental Protection Administration, who resigned in 2005 after the Songhua River beneze pollution debacle. From AP via Taipei Times: Xie…has been appointed vice minister of the National Development and Reform Commission, China’s most powerful […]
Read MoreJiangxi province…is facing a difficult dilemma between economic development and environmental protection. In this dilemma, environmental regulators also face a problem – of which “buttock” to sit on. The Songhua River disaster, last November, pointed to the conflicts of interests that cripple environmental regulators at the grass-roots. Top domestic publications gave bird’s eye glimpses of […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency via China Environmental News Digest: Nearly 1,000 lakes have disappeared over the past 50 years, an average rate of 20 lakes lost each year, said Zhu Guangyao, Vice Minister of State Environmental Protection Administration of China, on Wednesday. Zhu revealed the figure at the the 11th International Living Lakes Conference held […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, another story about the dangers of industrial pollution in China: Thousands of villagers from China’s northwestern province of Gansu have turned up at a hospital with lead poisoning which they say was caused by a local smelting plant, the South China Morning Post said on Wednesday. Quoting the Huashang Daily, the newspaper said […]
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