(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
Export credit the new ‘odious debt’ of the Third World
(September 1, 2006) Patricia Adams, executive director of Probe International, speaking to the European Commission Conference on Export Credit Agencies and Sustainable Development, 20 June 2006, Brussels.
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.
Sinohydro ‘downgraded’ over accident record
(August 31, 2006) Sinohydro, the Chinese company set to build a billion-dollar dam on the Salween River in Burma in partnership with the Thai utility EGAT, has been criticized in an annual performance review of state-owned enterprises for unspecified "safety or environmental pollution accidents."
Chemicals pollute river in Nanjing tourist spot
(August 30, 2006) A chemical plant that severely polluted a river popular with tourists in the capital of Jiangsu province has been told to limit production for the next few months.
Heatwave puts China's giant dam in the dock
‘Startlingly, no scientific evaluation of the possible impact on the local weather was ever conducted as part of the feasibility study of Three Gorges dam.’
National People’s Congress calls China’s pollution problem ‘shocking’
(August 29, 2006) The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress used the word ‘shocking’ to describe the pollution problem in China in a recent environmental report, Xinhua says.
Why Africa needs ‘new news’
(August 28, 2006) The state of Africa, says Charlayne Hunter-Gault in her most recent book, New News Out of Africa, is in many ways shaped by the public’s image of the continent – and the image of Africa is in the hands of the media.
China energy saving target hard to meet -planner
(August 28, 2006) China may fail to meet its goal to reduce the energy intensity of its economy by 4 per cent this year, the country’s top economic planner says.
China may save 150 billion kwh of electricity through electromotor upgrade: lawmaker
(August 27, 2006) China has big energy-saving potential if the methods are widely applied, says NPC standing committee member Guo Shuyan.
Chemical spill threatens water supply
(August 27, 2006) A chemical spill has left one person dead and another seriously burnt, and polluted a source of drinking water for 100,000 residents in northwest China’s Shaanxi province, Xinhua reports.
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