(September 11, 2006) The chemical plants blamed for polluting the Xinqiang River in central China’s Hunan province with arsenide have been closed down and their senior managers have been detained.
Official: China’s Songhua River suffering near-daily chemical spills
(September 10, 2006) Every few days, a chemical accident pollutes the Songhua River, Pan Yue, deputy director of the State Environmental Protection Administration, told the official Xinhua news agency.
Chinese river contains high arsenide poison level, no villagers sickened
(September 10, 2006) Fire trucks were providing water to villagers in central China’s Hunan province after high levels of arsenide poison were found in the Xinjiang River, although no one has been sickened, officials said Sunday.
China pays for economic growth with costly pollution
(September 10, 2006) Environmental agencies even lack authority to intervene on their own as they answer to more powerful provincial bodies that are often in league with polluters, corrupt and riddled with nepotism.
‘Still Life’ surprise winner in Venice
‘Still Life (Sanxia Haoren) was shot in the village of Fengjie, which has since been submerged in water to make way for the Three Gorges dam. It recounts two stories of local people in times of relocation and their emotional upheavals,’ China Daily says.
GDP takes on a green hue in new figures
(September 8, 2006) Pollution caused losses of US$64 billion in 2004, which was 3.05 per cent of China’s gross domestic product that year, according to a "Green GDP" report calculating the impact of the environment on the economy.
The Cost of Power in China
Black Opal Press September 5, 2006 This new book by photographer Steven Benson is his much acclaimed photo essay documenting the Yangtze River valley which is now under the water of the […]
NGOs in China: Helping those devoured by the dragon
(September 5, 2006) ‘We are not fundamentally against the [Nu River dams] project,’ Yu Xiaogang insists. ‘But we want the consequences for the environment, for the people and for the economy to be assessed first, just as the law requires.’
Rules ignored, toxic sludge sinks Chinese village
(September 3, 2006) There is no shortage of environmental laws in China, but the dire pollution problems persist, in part because environmental protection is often subverted by local protectionism, corruption and regulatory inefficiency.
As China spews pollution, villagers rise up
(September 3, 2006) Villagers say a few people in China are getting rich by destroying the environment. ‘This whole system is unfair,’ one farmer is quoted as saying, ‘They’re getting wealthy on the backs of poor people like us.’
China’s Environment
(September 1, 2006) Bruce Gellerman interview with Dai Qing
Huaneng invests to double capacity
(August 31, 2006) China Huaneng Group, the country’s biggest electricity producer, plans to spend as much as 250 billion yuan (US$31.25 billion) by 2010 to more than double its generation capacity.
China nomads on energy’s cutting edge
(August 31, 2006) China seeks to obtain 15 per cent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020. However, more than a third of the pledge is to be met by small dams in environmentally sensitive regions, a Western experts notes.
China fails to cut main pollutants – government
(August 31, 2006) The State Environmental Protection Administration lays the blame for rising pollution in China on poor enforcement of regulations and a ‘crude mode of economic growth.’
7bn yuan put on mainland emissions
(August 31, 2006) Power plants must buy rights to emit sulfur dioxide from as early as next year – at an annual cost of 7 billion yuan based on current output – a senior environmental adviser to the central government revealed.
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