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Villagers await results of pollution protest
By Wang Xiang |
May 6, 2010, Thursday
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VILLAGERS living near an industrial park are waiting for a city government's response after about 200 of them protested against pollution, asking authorities to relocate them as promised in 2007.
Residents from four villages in Liyang City, Jiangsu Province, blocked entrances to the park last week holding banners saying "We are surviving in poisonous air," People's Daily online reported today.
They demanded the closure of all factories in the industrial park and begged Liyang government to relocate them in safer areas.
A villager named Shi Fangjin said most of the factories produced chemicals that made him feel dizzy and nauseated.
The pollution has killed every vegetable and hardly any farmed shrimps or fish survived, Shi said.
Their protest began on April 23 and has stopped production by blocking traffic, according to the report.
A villager named Chen Donghao said the township government gave only 350 yuan to each family as compensation and promised to sue the polluting companies.
A factory owner surnamed Qian told the newspaper that the villagers should have been relocated long before. Jiangsu's environmental protection authority ordered the villagers to be relocated in 2007 but nothing has happened so far.
Residents from four villages in Liyang City, Jiangsu Province, blocked entrances to the park last week holding banners saying "We are surviving in poisonous air," People's Daily online reported today.
They demanded the closure of all factories in the industrial park and begged Liyang government to relocate them in safer areas.
A villager named Shi Fangjin said most of the factories produced chemicals that made him feel dizzy and nauseated.
The pollution has killed every vegetable and hardly any farmed shrimps or fish survived, Shi said.
Their protest began on April 23 and has stopped production by blocking traffic, according to the report.
A villager named Chen Donghao said the township government gave only 350 yuan to each family as compensation and promised to sue the polluting companies.
A factory owner surnamed Qian told the newspaper that the villagers should have been relocated long before. Jiangsu's environmental protection authority ordered the villagers to be relocated in 2007 but nothing has happened so far.
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