Environmental pollution incidents in China in recent years are as follows:
2002
On September 11, 2002, a lead-zinc mine tailing dam collapsed upstream of Duojie Village in Duyun Bagu Town, Guizhou Province, and thousands of cubic meters of slag cascaded down from a cliff and was injected into the Fanjia River at the foot of the mountain, and the trees along the coast soaked with tailing slag died, and the good land was buried by slag, and powdered The lead and zinc tailings mixed with the river water to form a viscous slurry that was discharged directly into the Qingshui River through the Fanjia River. After the incident, more than 20 kilometers downstream of the Qingshui River is still a turbid, people and animals a moment of drinking water difficulties.
Yunnan Nanpan River Water Pollution Incident
In October 2002, a serious water pollution incident occurred in the above section of the Nanpan River in Yunnan Province's Chai Shitan, causing the death of hundreds of tons of fish and contaminating more than 300 million cubic meters of water in the downstream Chai Shitan Reservoir. Because of the Nanpan River along the densely populated, industrial and agricultural production is concentrated, is one of the more economically developed areas of Yunnan Province, the water pollution incident not only caused huge economic losses, and the social impact is very bad.
2003
Year Sanmenxia Reservoir released "a reservoir of sewage"
In 2003, due to the Sanmenxia Dam upstream of the industrial effluent discharge of a number of enterprises and the Yellow River towns and cities near the domestic sewage discharges increased year by year, the Yellow River has been the most serious pollution since the measured records, the Yellow River, the most serious pollution. Sanmenxia reservoir discharge was "soy sauce color", the water quality deteriorated to V, becoming a veritable "a reservoir of sewage". Sanmenxia City, although adjacent to the Yellow River, but the public had to spend money to buy spring water from the nearby mountains, "guarding the Yellow River to buy water to eat" has become a major spectacle in Sanmenxia City.
2004
Sichuan Tuojiang River water pollution incident
In 2004, the end of February and early March, Sichuan Chemical Industry Company Limited, the second fertilizer plant will be a large number of high concentration of ammonia and nitrogen wastewater discharged into the Tuojiang River tributary of the Vihe River, resulting in Tuojiang River river water becomes yellow and smelly, ammonia and nitrogen exceeded the standard of up to 50 times as much. After the pollution occurred, 500,000 kilograms of net box fish died, direct economic losses of about 300 million yuan. Along the river Jianyang, Zizhong, Neijiang three places were forced to stop water for four weeks, affecting millions of people, the local pure water was snapped up, the local government from Yibin, Chengdu, mobilized fire trucks to send water, is still unable to meet the residents of the daily water. In order to alleviate the disaster, but also from Dujiangyan, Sanqiao Lake emergency water to dilute 2,000 tons of ammonia nitrogen, but it was too late. According to expert calculations at the time, the damaged ecology of the Tuojiang River will take at least five years to recover.
Puyang, Henan Province, can not drink "safe water"
Since October 2004, Puyang City, Henan Province, the Yellow River intake of water pollution occurred for more than four months, more than 400,000 residents of the city's drinking water safety is threatened, Puyang City, was forced to use the alternate groundwater source. According to the investigation, since 1997, Puyang City, the Yellow River water intake has been contaminated for many years, the city's drinking water source about 4 to 5 months a year by the impact of pollution.
Sichuan Qingyi River Water Pollution Incident
In late December 2004, a large amount of white foam appeared on the surface of the water and a pungent alkali odor emanated from the surface due to the secret discharge of large amounts of industrial effluent from some papermaking enterprises into the Qingyi River in Leshan City, Sichuan Province. The Qingyi River is the source of drinking water for nearly 400,000 people in Leshan City, but after the water quality was seriously polluted, the neighboring water companies were on the verge of shutting down production due to the increased difficulty in producing drinking water of the required standard, and the local people were faced with a crisis of water cut-off.
2005
Chongqing Qijiang Water Pollution Incident
From January 3, 2005, nearly 30,000 residents of Qijiang, Chongqing, were cut off from water for two days in Qijiang Gounan Street, Qiaoxie District, due to the contamination of the water intake point by the upstream wastewater discharged from the Chongqing Huajiang Fertilizer Co, Ltd, which resulted in the stoppage of water supply to the plant, and the suspension of Qijiang Gear Plant's production as a result.
Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, suffers polluted water shortage crisis
In mid-March 2005, all kinds of water-saving publicity materials appeared on the streets of Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, asking residents to use rice-washing water to wash vegetables, use laundry water to wipe the floor, or put bricks in the flush toilet tanks in order to save the amount of flushing water. The price of water for the city's residents has also risen from 1.65 yuan to 1.9 yuan per ton. The survey showed that although Jiaxing has a dense network of rivers and is known as a "water town", there is a lack of standardized water available in the city due to upstream transit water pollution.
Yellow River water into the "agricultural harm"
In 2005, the Yellow River Basin in some areas of crop production or even crop failure, because the Yellow River from Qinghai through Gansu, Ningxia to Inner Mongolia along the Yellow River, energy, heavy chemicals, non-ferrous metals, paper and other highly polluting industrial enterprises, waste sewage discharge volume increases year by year. Increase year by year, a large number of industrial wastewater does not meet the standard directly into the diversion of branch canals, resulting in the Yellow River along the part of the irrigated area is similar to sewage irrigation, the Yellow River water into the "agricultural harm".
Songhua River major water pollution incident
November 13, 2005, PetroChina Jilin Petrochemical Company, double benzene plant aniline workshop explosion, resulting in five deaths, one missing, nearly 70 people were injured. After the explosion, about 100 tons of organic pollutants such as benzene, aniline and nitrobenzene flowed into the Songhua River, leading to serious contamination of the river, affecting the lives of millions of residents along the coast, and shutting down the water supply for many days in Songyuan City, Jilin Province, and Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. The downstream pollution even threatened Russia's Khabarovsk Krai, causing serious international negative impacts. The incident also exposed the shortcomings of undisclosed information and insufficient crisis-management capabilities, such as rumors and panic scenes such as a rush to buy drinking water in Harbin.
After the incident, the State Council investigation team found that this is a particularly major water pollution liability incident, the 12 people responsible for the accident to make party discipline, political discipline, the former State Environmental Protection Administration Secretary Xie Zhenhua resigned for this reason. 5 years, the State for the Songhua River Basin Water Pollution Prevention and Control cumulative investment of 7.84 billion yuan in pollution control funds.
Guangdong Beijiang Cadmium Pollution Accident
December 15, 2005, Guangdong Beijiang Shaoguan section of serious cadmium pollution, cadmium concentrations detected in the high bridge section exceeded the standard by more than 12 times. Beijiang is one of the three major tributaries of the Pearl River, but also an important source of drinking water in Guangdong cities, because Shaoguan is located in the upper reaches of the Beijiang River, the pollution directly threatened the downstream of the nearly ten million people's drinking water safety and thousands of enterprises in the normal use of water, part of the city's tap water supply stop. After investigation, the cause of the accident is the Shaoguan smelter equipment maintenance during the illegal discharge of cadmium-containing wastewater.
2006
Baiyangdian dead fish incident in Hebei
In February and March 2006, Baiyangdian, the largest freshwater lake in North China, known as the "Pearl of North China," had a succession of large areas of dead fish. Investigation results show that the main cause of the dead fish event is the water pollution is heavy, low dissolved oxygen in the water, ultimately resulting in fish suffocation. According to statistics, 96,000 acres of water belonging to Renqiu City, Hebei Province, is polluted, the water color is black, there is a foul smell, all the fish cultured in the net box died, a large number of dead wild fish floating in the precipitation, some of the water plants blackened and withered.
Jilin Busy Cow River Water Pollution Incident
August 21, 2006, the Environmental Protection Bureau of Jilin City, Jilin Province, received a report from the public, Busy Cow River near the occurrence of chemical pollution. After on-site investigation, it was found that part of the water was red in color with a small amount of foam, and the pollutant was dimethylaniline, and formed a pollution zone of about 5 kilometers long. After investigation, the accident is Jilin Changbaishan Fine Chemical Co., Ltd. to busy cattle in the river due to artificial discharge of chemical wastewater.
Yueyang, Hunan Province, arsenic contamination
September 8, 2006, Yueyang County, Hunan Province, the drinking water source of the new wall of the river water contamination, arsenic exceeded the standard by about 10 times, 80,000 residents of the drinking water safety is threatened. After investigation, the culprit of this pollution is the upstream three chemical plants, due to routine discharge of industrial effluent, resulting in a large number of high concentrations of arsenic-containing wastewater into the New Wall River.
Sichuan Luzhou Power Plant Major Environmental Pollution Accident
November 15, 2006, Sichuan Luzhou Chuannan Power Plant project construction unit in the case of sewage facilities have not yet been completed, began the fuel system installation debugging, resulting in diesel fuel leakage mixed into the cooling water pipeline and discharged into the Yangtze River. On the same day, the enterprise reported into the Yangtze River diesel 0.38 tons, by the environmental protection department supervision, the next day and then reported into the Yangtze River diesel actually 16.945 tons. This accident led to Luzhou city water shutdown, and into the territory of Chongqing to form cross-border pollution.
After the incident, the State Environmental Protection Administration found that this is a major environmental pollution incident, Luzhou Chuannan Power Generation Co., Ltd. was sentenced to 200,000 yuan in economic penalties, the company's relevant responsible persons were sentenced to deduct bonuses, revocation of duties and other penalties. 2007 May 15, Sichuan Environmental Protection Bureau suspended the approval of the city of Huzhou, in addition to the pollution control project, all new projects.
2007
Cyanobacteria crisis erupted in Taihu Lake, Chaohu Lake and Dianchi Pond
Beginning on May 29, 2007, a large number of people in the urban area of Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, experienced a sudden change in the quality of the tap water at home, accompanied by an unpleasant odor, which made it impossible to drink normally. The reason is that as the local drinking water source of Lake Taihu appeared a large area of cyanobacteria, the annual infestation of Lake Taihu "regular guests", this year came earlier, more fierce. A small cyanobacteria overnight disrupted the normal life of millions of Wuxi citizens, supermarkets were snapped up pure water, the street retail barrels of pure water prices also soared.
Entering June, Chaohu Lake, Dianchi also appeared cyanobacteria. Anhui Chaohu Lake, the western half of the lake appeared about 5 square kilometers of large areas of cyanobacteria, with the continued high temperature, Chaohu Lake, the eastern half of the lake also appeared cyanobacteria, threatening the local drinking water safety. Yunnan Kunming Dianchi also due to days of hot weather, cyanobacteria bloom. In the Dianchi ridge line of the shore, the lake as green paint, and accompanied by a burst of fishy odor.
Jiangsu Shuyang Water Pollution Incident
At 3:00 p.m. on July 2, 2007, Jiangsu Shuyang County Groundwater Plant found that for a short period of time, a large flow of sewage water intruded into the intake point of the plant located in the Huashu River, and the flow of water appeared to have a distinct odor. After testing, the ammonia nitrogen content of the water at the intake was about 28 milligrams per liter, far exceeding the national water quality standard for water intake. As the contaminated water still could not meet the drinking water standard after treatment, the water supply system in the urban area was forced to be shut down, affecting the water supply for 200,000 people and stopping the water supply for more than 40 hours in Shuyang County.
2008
Guangzhou Baishui Village "poisoned water" incident
On March 2, 2008, 41 villagers in Baisha Village, Zhonglutan Town, Baiyun District, Guangzhou, who had eaten at their own homes or in a restaurant, were sent to the hospital for treatment of symptoms of poisoning, such as vomiting, tightness in the chest, blackening of the fingers and cramps. sent to the hospital for treatment. According to the investigation, the cause of this pollution is a small private factory in the village of Baisha improper use of nitrite, contaminated the factory unauthorized excavation located in the factory wells, and the wells of the pumping pipe and the tap water pipe illegally connected to the illegal private, but also lead to tap water contamination.
Yunnan Yangzonghai Arsenic Pollution Incident
Since June 2008, Yangzonghai, one of the nine highland lakes in Yunnan, has been measured as having arsenic concentrations in the water that seriously exceeded the drinking water safety standards, directly jeopardizing the drinking water safety of 20,000 people. From July 8, people and enterprises around the lake stopped taking water as drinking water, and on September 12, the Yunnan Provincial Government decided to implement the "three bans" on Yangzonghai, i.e., banning drinking, swimming and fishing for aquatic products. It also decided to take measures to investigate and deal with polluting enterprises, and to launch comprehensive pollution control measures, with a view to restoring the water quality of the Yangzong Sea to normal in about three years.
As a result of the pollution incident, Yunnan province has held 26 government workers administratively accountable, with 12 of them being removed from their posts. To strengthen environmental enforcement, the Kunming Public Security Bureau set up an environmental protection sub-bureau, the first of its kind in the country.
2009
Jiangsu Yancheng Water Pollution Incident
On Feb. 20, 2009, the city of Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, was cut off from a large area of water for nearly 67 hours due to phenolic compounds contaminating the tap water source, affecting the lives of 200,000 people, or two-fifths of the city's urban population. According to the investigation, the manufacture of this pollution incident was rated as the local standard-bearer enterprise Yancheng City standard new chemical plant, the plant in order to reduce the cost of pollution control, actually take advantage of the heavy rain to discharge 30 tons of chemical wastewater, and ultimately contaminated the water source. After the incident, the plant's two principals were sentenced to 10 years and six years in prison for "the crime of releasing dangerous substances", which is the first time that China's environmental pollution incidents with this crime to make criminal punishment.
Shandong Yinan Arsenic Pollution Incident
In April 2009, Shandong Yinan County Yixin Chemical Co., Ltd. illegally produced Asanic acid without obtaining approval of the relevant formalities and stored a large amount of arsenic-containing toxic wastewater generated during the production process in a deliberately hidden sewage pool. The company used pumps to discharge wastewater with arsenic content exceeding the standard by 27.254 million times into the Blossom River, causing serious pollution of the water body. After the incident, the three persons in charge were sentenced and sentenced to **** the same compensation of 37.14 million yuan for the economic loss of the state.
Shaanxi Hanyin Tailings Pond Collapse Accident
On August 29 and 30, 2009, two collapses occurred one after another at the end of the flood discharge culvert of the Huanglong Gold Mine Tailings Pond in Hanyin County, Shaanxi Province, and about eight thousand cubic meters or so of tailings sand leaked. The dangerous situation led to serious contamination of the water in the Qingnian River near the tailings pond and seriously threatened the water quality of the Guanyin River Reservoir, which is connected to it through the culvert, and which is the main source of tap water for the old urban area of the county town of Hanyin.
Cadmium pollution in Liuyang, Hunan Province
In 2003, Liuyang City, Hunan Province, Zhentou Town, Shuangqiao Village, through the introduction of investment in Changsha Xianghe Chemical Plant, the following year in April, the plant without approval to build a refining indium production line, and long-term discharge of industrial waste, in the vicinity of the formation of a large area of cadmium contamination, which led to the death of a large swath of vegetation, and some of the villagers due to cadmium exceeded the standard of the body to appear dizziness, Chest tightness, joint pain and other symptoms due to excessive cadmium in the body, two villagers died as a result. 2009 July 29, 30, thousands of local villagers were unable to withstand the harm of pollution, besiege the town government, police station. After the incident, the person in charge of the enterprise and government officials related to the manufacture of pollution were criminally prosecuted and suspended from duty.
Multiple outbreaks of children with excessive blood lead
In August 2009, of the 1,016 children tested in Fengxiang County, Shaanxi Province, 851 were found to have excessive blood lead, which in turn triggered a vicious mass incident. Subsequently, 1,354 children were found to have excessive blood lead in Wugang City, Hunan Province, and 121 children were found to have excessive blood lead in Shanghang County, Fujian Province.In late December, dozens of children in Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province, were also found to have lead poisoning collectively. After investigation, these lead poisoning incidents are related to the pollution discharge of local enterprises, and the heavy metal pollution problem has attracted great attention from the relevant departments.
"Hometown of Non-ferrous Metals" Drinking Water Emergency
In 2009, an investigation report disclosed that Hunan, known as the "Hometown of Non-ferrous Metals", has a large number of enterprises engaged in mining, smelting and chemical industry in the Xiangjiang River Basin, which has led to serious heavy metal pollution. Heavy metal pollution. Over the years, Hunan's mercury, cadmium, chromium, lead emissions ranked first in the country, arsenic, sulfur dioxide and chemical oxygen demand (COD) emissions in the country. Fish in the Xiangjiang River Basin have been drastically reduced, thousands of acres of farmland cannot be cultivated, a considerable geographical area of fish, food and vegetables are inedible, and the safety of drinking water for 40 million people is threatened.
2010
Zijin Mining Copper Acid Water Leakage Accident
On July 3, 2010, a copper acid water leakage occurred in the Zijinshan Copper Mining Wet Plant of Zijinshan Mine of Zijin Mining Group Co. of Fujian Province, and 9,100 cubic meters of wastewater flowed into the Tingjiang River along the flood discharge culvert, resulting in serious pollution of some sections of the Tingjiang River, and the death of millions of kilograms of net-pen cultured fish for local fishermen, with direct The economic loss amounted to RMB 31,877,100 yuan. However, Zijin Mining concealed the pollution incident for nine days before making an announcement, and caused sewage infiltration to occur again on July 16 due to ineffective emergency response. on September 21, a dam breach also occurred at Xinyi Zijin Mining Co.'s Yinyan Tin Mine Gaoqiling Tailings Storage Pool in the city of Maoming, which resulted in major casualties and property losses.
After the incident, a number of local officials were suspended for inspection or ordered to resign, and those in charge of the relevant enterprises were criminally detained.
On Oct. 8, 2010, the Fujian Provincial Environmental Protection Bureau made a decision to fine Zijin Mining 9,563,130,000 yuan in administrative penalties, a record for the highest fines imposed on polluting enterprises.
Dalian Xingang Crude Oil Leak
On the afternoon of July 16, 2010, a Liberian 300,000-ton tanker unloading additional additives at the Xingang port in Dalian caused an explosion in a land pipeline and a leak from five tanks next to it, also 100,000 cubic meters in size. It was not until July 22 that the leak was largely plugged. The accident was estimated to have polluted at least 50 square kilometers of nearby sea.
Songhua River chemical barrels incident
On July 28, 2010, two chemical companies in Jilin province had their warehouses destroyed by floodwaters, and 7,138 barrels of materials were washed into the Wende River, and then into the Songhua River. The barrels of raw materials were mainly trimethyl monochlorosilane and hexamethyldisilazane, etc. The pollution zone was 5 kilometers long. To prevent the crisis from expanding, tens of thousands of people were deployed along the coast to intercept it, and the city's water supply pipeline was cut off, almost a replica of the Jilin Petrochemical explosion five years ago.
Henan chrome waste piles up into urban tumors
October 25, 2010, a media report, Henan Province in the 1950s to 1980s and 1990s built a number of chemical enterprises, and left more than six million tons of waste chrome residue, piled up in the periphery of more than two dozen cities, becoming "urban tumors! "Chromium dregs contain carcinogens. Chromium dregs contain carcinogenic calcium chromate and highly toxic hexavalent chromium, because most of these piles of chromium dregs do not have rain-proof and seepage-proof measures, after decades of rainfall and infiltration, they have become a source of pollution spreading that permanently damages groundwater and farmland.
2011
More than a few incidents of excessive blood lead
The incidents of excessive blood lead that were exposed in many places in 2009 and 2010 continued to spread in 2012. 228 children were detected with excessive blood lead in Xinshan community of Gaohe town, Huaining county, Anhui province, in January; and 172 people were detected with excessive blood lead in Shangtao village of Fenghuang street, Luqiao district, Taizhou city, Zhejiang province, in March, including 53 children. Among them, 53 were children. Ltd. in Dexin City, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, was exposed to cause 332 people with excessive blood lead, including 99 children; in May, Sanwei Battery Co., Ltd. in Zijin County, Guangdong Province, was exposed to cause 136 people with excessive blood lead, of which 59 met the criteria for determining lead poisoning; and in September, 25 children in Kangqiao District, Shanghai, were tested for excessive blood lead.
The sources of pollution that led to the above blood lead exceeding the standard are almost all storage battery enterprises. In March 2011, the Ministry of Environmental Protection inspected 388 lead storage battery enterprises and found that most of the small and medium-sized enterprises had a variety of environmental violations, for which the lead storage battery enterprises have been focusing on remediation. Among them, due to the Deqing blood lead incident, the city of Huzhou to implement a comprehensive regional restrictions.
Bohai Penglai Oilfield Oil Spill
June 4, 2011, CNOOC and ConocoPhillips Penglai 19-3 oilfield oil spill, as of December 29, the accident has caused the Bohai Sea 6,200 square kilometers of seawater contaminated, which is equivalent to about 7% of the Bohai Sea, most of which the water quality of the sea area from the original class I to class IV, the area affected by the ecological environment has been seriously damaged. The ecological environment in the affected areas has been seriously damaged, and a large number of fishermen and farmers in Hebei and Liaoning have suffered heavy losses.
After the accident, CNOOC and ConocoPhillips were criticized by public opinion for incomplete disclosure of information, shirking of responsibility, and ineffective handling of the incident, and the progress of the claims work was difficult, and it was not until the following year that there was a breakthrough, in which the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) announced on April 27, 2012, that ConocoPhillips and CNOOC would pay a total of 1.683 billion yuan of compensation, which is a record amount for the ecological claims in China. record.
Hawai Pharmaceuticals General Factory is stuck in the "pollution door"
On June 5, 2011, CCTV exposed the long-term violation of sewage discharge at the Harbin Pharmaceuticals Group's General Factory: the emissions around the factory seriously exceeded the standard, and the stench was unbearable; some of the wastewater treatment facilities were not fully activated due to maintenance, and the wastewater was discharged directly into the river, resulting in the river water becoming discolored; A large amount of waste residue is either simply incinerated regardless of location or directly dumped on the edge of the river ditch. The results of air quality testing in the area adjacent to the pharmaceutical plant showed that hydrogen sulfide gas exceeded the standard by 1150 times, and ammonia exceeded the standard by 20 times. And this "water, land and air" three-dimensional sewage has been more than one day, the neighboring residents have complained for many years, but Harbin Pharmaceutical General Factory has been reluctant to invest in solving the problem.
Water contamination in Hangzhou, Zhejiang
In the morning of June 5, 2011, residents of Yuhang Town, Yuhang District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, found that the tap water has a strange smell, the local water plant water also found that the body of water wafted out of the odor similar to rosin, paint. After testing, the contaminated water appeared in about 10 kinds of volatile benzene organic substances, the source of pollution from an industrial park near Qingshan Lake. As a result of the contamination, water supply was halted in some parts of the area.
Yunnan Qujing chrome dregs pollution incident
In August 2011, Yunnan Qujing Luliang Chemical Industry Co. Ltd. illegally dumped 5,222.38 tons of chrome dregs, a heavy toxic chemical waste, leading to serious water pollution near the Nanpan River, the source of the Pearl River, and the deaths of 77 livestock in the nearby countryside, as well as leaving behind a long-lasting ecological risk to the surrounding rural and mountainous areas.
Apple's China Foundry Accused of Polluting the Environment
In September 2011, 36 environmental organizations, including the Center for Public Environmental Research and Friends of Nature, released an investigative report titled "The Other Side of Apple," disclosing that Apple's 27 suspected suppliers in mainland China were suffering from serious environmental problems. Subsequently, the environmental organizations launched a series of negotiations with Apple on purifying the industry chain. In October of that year, Apple's Jiangsu, China, foundry was ordered to shut down and rectify production for polluting the environment. The incident sparked a discussion on the environmental responsibility of big international brands.
Gansu Huixian blood cadmium exceeded the standard
On Oct. 23, 2011, an employee of the Baohui Group Zinc Metallurgy Company, located in Huixian County, Gansu Province, was found to have abnormal blood cadmium during a physical examination. Subsequently, the company's 869 employees of the physical examination results show that *** 266 people blood cadmium exceeded the standard, 71 people were hospitalized. After investigation, the company's protective measures are not in place is the main reason for the staff blood chromium abnormalities, the relevant responsible person for this to be dealt with.
Jiangxi Copper sewage scourge downstream
December 2011, Jiangxi Copper in Jiangxi Dexing City, Jiangxi subordinate to a number of mining companies were exposed to perennial sewage Le'an River, the scourge of the downstream of the city of Leping, nine townships more than four hundred thousand people. Le Ping municipal government's investigation report shows that since the 1970s, the upstream non-ferrous mining enterprises to the Le An River Basin discharges more than 60 million tons of "three wastes" sewage each year, wastewater heavy metal pollutants and toxic non-metallic pollutants amounted to more than 20 kinds. As a result, 9,269 acres of arable land were left barren, more than 10,000 acres of arable land were severely reduced, nine fishing villages along the river lost their economic resources due to the sharp decline in river fish, and heavy metal poisoning and strange diseases occurred among the local people from time to time. And the amount of compensation made by the enterprises concerned under the agreement is less than one dollar per person per year on average.
2012
Guangxi Longjiang River Cadmium Pollution Incident
January 15, 2012, due to the Guangxi Jinhe Mining Co., Ltd. and Hechi City, Jinchengjiang District, Hongquan Lide Powder Material Factory illegal discharge of industrial effluent, Longjiang River, Guangxi, the sudden and serious cadmium contamination of cadmium, cadmium content of the water of about 20 tons, the pollution mass downstream of the river, the pollution of the river section of up to about three hundred kilometers, and the 26th into the downstream. And January 26 into the downstream of Liuzhou, triggering national concern "Liuzhou defense". The pollution incident had a serious impact on the lives of many fishermen along the Longjiang River and more than three million people in Liuzhou. As of February 2, Longjiang River, Yizhou Lalang to three sections **** 1.33 million fish fry, 40,000 kilograms of adult fish died, and Liuzhou City, there was a public rush to buy mineral water. After the incident, 10 people responsible for the enterprise were arrested on suspicion of polluting the environment.
Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, water pollution incident
February 3, 2012 at noon, Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province, the tap water odor, Zhenjiang Water Company's initial explanation is to "increase the amount of chlorine in the tap water," but then two days, Zhenjiang, a storm of drinking water. February 7, Zhenjiang City, the government admitted: the source water is affected by benzene, the water supply, the water supply, the water supply, the water, the water, the water, the water, the water, the water, the water, the water, the water, the water, the water, the water. Government admitted: the source water contaminated with phenol is the main cause of the odor. An investigation by the relevant authorities found that the South Korean freighter "Gloria", which had docked in Zhenjiang, was suspected of discharging pollutants, and in March, Zhenjiang Municipal Water Supply Company formally filed a lawsuit against the freighter in court.
2013
Beijing haze
In 2013, "haze" became the keyword of the year. In January of that year, four haze processes covered 30 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), and in Beijing, there were only five days that were not hazy. Less than 1 percent of China's 500 largest cities meet air quality standards recommended by the World Health Organization, while seven of the world's 10 most polluted cities are in China, according to a report.
Shanghai Songjiang Dead Pigs Incident
The latest update on the large number of dead pigs floating in the waters of the Songjiang section of Shanghai's Huangpu River in March 2013 was obtained from the Shanghai Municipal Agriculture Commission and relevant departments of the Songjiang District on March 10, 2013: more than 1,200 dead pigs have been salvaged. These dead pigs basically originated from the upstream area of Shanghai. Shanghai is stepping up coordination with the surrounding areas upstream of the Huangpu River to investigate the source of the dead pigs in order to stop the unregulated disposal of dead pigs at the source. The Shanghai Municipal Water Affairs Bureau said the local tap water quality in Songjiang has "normal data" and meets the relevant standards. Huangpu River dead pig incident in the number of dead pigs has increased, as of March 20, Shanghai related district waters salvaged floating dead pigs have reached a total of 10,395 head.
Henan "sewage irrigated wheat fields" villagers laughed and answered: are sold to you
Henan Xinxiang paper mill sewage irrigated wheat fields, the face of the interview question: "This water out of the wheat, you dare to eat?" The villagers' answer left people speechless: "(hehehe) are sold to you."
A paper mill in Xinxiang City, Henan Province, polluted wheat fields with illegal sewage discharge, and the local government has taken on-site measurements of the contaminated wheat fields to ensure that the wheat does not reach the market.
The Environmental Protection Department of Henan Province recently found during an unannounced visit to water-related enterprises in some areas that a paper mill in Xinxiang, Henan Province, had illegally used some of its untreated wastewater directly to irrigate wheat fields, causing environmental pollution. At present, this enterprise has been ordered to shut down and rectify. The local government has also carried out field measurements of the contaminated wheat fields to ensure that the wheat is harvested separately and does not reach the market.
Qingdao oil pipeline explosion
3 a.m. on November 22, 2013, located in Huangdao District, Qinhuangdao Road and Jaitangdao Road Interchange, Sinopec Oil Transmission and Storage Company, Weifang Branch, rupture of the pipeline, the accident was found about 3:15 minutes to shut down the transmission of oil, about 1,000 square meters of roadway in Jaitangdao Street was contaminated with crude oil, part of the crude oil along the rainwater pipeline into the Jiaozhou Bay, the sea surface over oil area of about 3000 square meters. Huangdao District immediately organized the deployment of two oil booms on the sea surface. Disposal process, at 10:30 that morning, Huangdao District, along the river road and Jaitang Island Road intersection of deflagration, at the same time in the mouth of the sea was oil contaminated sea surface deflagration.
Because of the crude oil leak to the explosion occurred for more than 8 hours, by the seawater back up, the leakage of crude oil and its mixture of gases in the drainage culvert spread, diffusion, accumulation, and ultimately caused a wide range of continuous explosion. The accident resulted in 62 deaths, 136 injuries and direct economic losses of 751.72 million yuan.
PetroChina Changqing Oilfield Branch Water Pollution
On June 20, it was reported that sewage from PetroChina Changqing Oilfield No. 5-15-27AH Su gas wells was discharged directly into Eriq Nuer Lake, leading to the violent death of hundreds of local livestock. Garutu town mayor Na Risu said, "After all the evidence of livestock deaths are collected, we will contact the polluting companies."
After the pollution accident, Zhao Zhangyuan, a researcher at the China Academy of Environmental Sciences, had traveled to the area to conduct research. Zhao Zhangyuan told this reporter, in the investigation, found that "Ordos Wuxing Banner and Ertuoq Banner and other places in tens of thousands of acres of pasture, the water source and its vegetation are signs of being polluted, a large number of sheep appeared to be dead and obvious disease, groundwater is threatened. Some herders have already reported that their bodies have also begun to feel unwell."
2014
At 04:00 on April 23, 2014, the ammonia nitrogen concentration exceeded the standard at the entry section of Wuhan section of the Han River in Hubei Province. 16:30 on the 23rd, Wuhan's Baihezui Water Plant, Yu's Dun Water Plant, and Guomian Water Plant stopped supplying water due to ammonia nitrogen exceeding the standard of the ex-factory water quality.
April 2014 , a stearic acid dust explosion occurred at Shuangma Chemical Co Ltd in Dongcheng Town, Rugao City, Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, killing eight people and injuring nine others.
May 2014 , Guangdong Yida Textile Co., Ltd. auxiliary packaging plant car new workshop dust room dust explosion accident occurred, resulting in five people were injured.
June 2014 , Wusu City, Xinjiang Tianyu Biotechnology Co., Ltd. a production workshop dust explosion, triggering a fire in the workshop, but fortunately did not cause casualties.
August 2014, an explosion occurred in the automobile wheel polishing workshop of Zhongrong Metal Products Co., Ltd. in the development zone of Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province, during the production process, resulting in 75 deaths and 185 injuries