Companies shamed over pollution
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CHINA’S environmental watchdog has named and shamed companies failing to comply with anti-smog measures, with dozens of cities around the country suffering from pollution for more than a week.
Yusheng, a building materials company in Hebi, a city in central China’s Henan Province, started its own power production generator without permission and without taking any environmental protection steps, after its electricity had been cut off by the local government, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said.
Late last month, the ministry sent 10 inspection teams nationwide to supervise the implementation of environmental measures by industrial enterprises.
Seven companies, including Tengfei, a wood industry company, in north China’s Hebei Province, failed to follow local government emergency measures such as halting or reducing production when the air was polluted, a ministry statement said.
“Environmental protection facilities installed at companies, including Shandong Xinsheng Industrial Development, did not yield the intended effects,” the ministry added.
In addition, a number of enterprises, including Wanlu, a building materials company in Hebei’s Bazhou, discharged excess pollutants and did not take environmental protection measures as required, the ministry said.
It did not specify punishments for violators as they are set to be punished by local authorities.
Sixty metropolitan areas and cities in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, neighboring provinces and northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, were under an alert for air pollution, including 31 cities under a red alert, the ministry said.
Measures such as closing schools, restricting traffic and halting production should be adopted in the case of a red alert.
However, the ministry said yesterday that the smog which has been causing problems across the country is forecast to disperse tomorrow.
On Wednesday, it noted that almost 62 percent of China’s cities that it was monitoring were suffering from air pollution, providing fresh evidence of the environmental challenges facing the country.
China is aiming to build a greener energy system over the next few years, in a nation where about two-thirds of power is generated by coal.
Licenses to discharge
Thermal power stations and paper-making enterprises will need licenses to discharge pollutants from the second half of 2017.
A new discharge policy requires all stationary sources of pollution to obtain licenses by 2020, according to China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection.
Stationary sources are the main sources of pollutant discharge, and bringing them under control is the key to industrial pollution management, it said.
Steel and cement factories in Beijing and parts of Hebei Province will also need licenses from July.
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