From the Telegraph: Hundreds of thousands of people living in towns and villages along the upper reaches of the Songhua river were allowed to continue using toxic water for more than a week, even though authorities knew that benzene levels were lethally high, Chinese officials have admitted. Anger was growing in Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The huge chemical spill in the Songhua River that threatens the water supply of Harbin, an old industrial city located in China’s frigid, northeastern corridor, has focused attention on the environmental and economic challenges faced by the country’s withering rust belt. Long before Harbin’s officials were forced to confront the […]
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 […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: The government tried for days to keep secret the threat posed to the nearly four million people of this city by a chemical explosion and benzene leak that has made the water supply unusable, Chinese news accounts revealed Friday. The reports, including some from the official Xinhua news agency, suggested […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: As temperatures plummet in China’s north-eastern province of Heilongjiang on Friday, millions of residents in the city of Harbin remain without water as authorities evacuate hundreds of villagers living along the contaminated Songhua River. Two Chinese environmental experts warned on Thursday there was a risk of dangerous chemicals getting into the […]
Read MoreFrom The South China Morning Post, via A Glimpse of the World: The central government’s admission yesterday that the Songhua river was severely polluted in a chemical factory explosion last week confirmed what many people had suspected. A statement issued by the State Environmental Protection Administration explained how the pollution had spread and did not […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: The Chinese government’s decision to cut potentially contaminated supplies of fresh water to a major city has highlighted the threat that industrial pollution poses to public health and economic development across the nation. Almost four million people in Harbin in northeastern China are expected to be without running water until […]
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