Protesting villagers demand a move
By Echo Wang |
May 7, 2010, Friday
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VILLAGERS living around an Industrial Park are waiting for a response from local government after about 200 of them protested against pollution last month, asking for the implementation of a relocation plan promised in 2007.
Residents from four villages in Liyang City, Jiangsu Province took action on April 27.
They jammed all three entrances of the industrial park, holding banners that read "We are surviving in poisonous air," the People's Daily online reported yesterday.
They demanded that the Liyang government relocate them to safer areas.
A villager named Shi Fangjin said most of the factories in the park produced chemicals.
He had felt dizzy and nauseated every day for many years. The pollution had killed off vegetables in the villages and hardly any farmed shrimp or fish survived.
One factory owner told the newspaper the villagers should have been relocated long before. Jiangsu's environmental protection authority ordered the relocation of villagers in 2007 but, so far, nothing had happened.
Residents from four villages in Liyang City, Jiangsu Province took action on April 27.
They jammed all three entrances of the industrial park, holding banners that read "We are surviving in poisonous air," the People's Daily online reported yesterday.
They demanded that the Liyang government relocate them to safer areas.
A villager named Shi Fangjin said most of the factories in the park produced chemicals.
He had felt dizzy and nauseated every day for many years. The pollution had killed off vegetables in the villages and hardly any farmed shrimp or fish survived.
One factory owner told the newspaper the villagers should have been relocated long before. Jiangsu's environmental protection authority ordered the relocation of villagers in 2007 but, so far, nothing had happened.
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