Residents living in the Longgang district of Huludao, Liaoning, have smelled an odor emanating from the air, and the odor can be very comforting, especially for those with respiratory illnesses, which is a disaster. The odor is getting worse as companies resume work and production. According to the investigation of the relevant departments found that this odor comes from the local enterprise hazardous waste warehouse fire after the leakage of substances emitted.
The source of the odor was investigated. Residents since the pungent odor affecting the normal life, the relevant departments have also carried out a comprehensive investigation of the sub-circumstances. Mainly for the surrounding industrial park in a number of chemical enterprises, the results found that there are violations of the phenomenon of emissions, the relevant departments have also carried out rectification work. But the related odor has not been alleviated. After another investigation found that an environmental protection enterprise of hazardous materials fire, and then the waste privately, but because of a variety of aspects of the enterprise did not eliminate the hazards, the waste often gas leakage, so the incident occurred.
The results and impact of the treatment. In the end, under the coordinated treatment of the relevant departments, the batch of contaminated waste has been relatively well transferred and resettled. The odor has not appeared in a large area. Huludao City has been developing rapidly in recent years, but the environmental pollution factor is very serious, most of the time, residents must wear masks and gas masks before they can go out and move around. The lakes around the city are also heavily polluted, and the discharge of large amounts of sewage has led to a massive decrease in the number of plants and animals in the water bodies, meaning that the local ecosystem is basically facing a collapse. Many local residents have expressed their helplessness. Many have chosen to move away from the area to healthier places with better air quality.
Pollution can seriously affect the sustainable development of Huludao City, as the saying goes, green mountains are gold mountains, economic development is not an unlimited demand for natural resources, and is to protect the environment on the basis of the development of gold mountains is the road to sustainable development.