Yesterday, China's first case of electromagnetic and environmental pollution hearing held in Beijing Environmental Protection Mission Center, which is the first by the residents of the spontaneous application of environmental protection hearing. Outside the hearing site, hundreds of Paiwangjiayuan neighborhood residents "strongly demanded 220 kilovolts of high voltage into the ground". Participating in the meeting were representatives of the Beijing Electric Power Company, "Environmental Impact Report" developed by the China Railway Research Institute of Environmental Assessment Center representatives, as well as Paiwangjiayuan, Summer Palace, 309 hospitals and other 13 stakeholder representatives. They on the north side of the Summer Palace high-voltage towers whether electromagnetic radiation pollution and other issues "debate". Yesterday's hearing did not produce a final result.
■Focus on a
Safety distance does not match the regulations
Beijing Electric Power Company representative: the project is carried out in the consideration of the interests of the residents around the relevant data in the Environmental Impact Report, we provide reference to the relevant national legal basis. All power lines are 30 meters away from the residents, there is no radiation impact on the residents.
Stakeholders: impact on residents. Representatives of the Paiwang Family Court said that the district's north wall outside the high-voltage tower is 14.7 meters away from the Nongda North Road, the high-voltage tower outside the south wall is 7.05 meters away from the municipal road, there are more than 20 bus routes nearby. In case of bad weather, it is easy to cause personal injuries.309 hospital representatives believe that the project will affect the accuracy of the hospital instrument testing. The representative of Bacchus Garden said that the project is not more than 10 meters away from the Bacchus Garden Building No. 1. The previous 35-kilovolt high-voltage cables were 17 meters away from the first building, and there were 11 cancer patients among the 48 residents, including eight in the first building.
■ Focus two
Radiation standards are outdated
Beijing Electric Power Company representative: the project was approved by the municipal government in 2002, the construction of the "9950" key projects. Before the construction of the project, it was also specifically tested and measured. After the completion of the high-voltage lines produced by the radiation, are lower than the international standard of 100 micro-organisms of radiation.
Stakeholders: The radiation standard adopted by Beijing Electric Power Company is extremely backward and unreasonable. Representatives of Paiwangjiaoyuan believe that there is no unified standard for high-voltage electromagnetic pollution in China, and at present we can only recommend the use of the data provided by the International Association for Protection against Radiation (IAPR), which was formulated in 1998 as a data standard. In addition, the standard of 100 micro-objects is no longer the standard prevailing abroad, in Italy, the United States and other countries, the standard has been reduced to 0.2 micro-objects, the United States of America, California, schools, kindergartens, the standard has been limited to 0.01 micro-objects.
■ Focus three
Approval procedures are not sequential
Beijing Electric Power Company representative: 220 kV transmission line project is in succession to the 35 kV transmission line built in 1983 on the basis of reconstruction, as early as 2002, the municipal government approved. Paiwangjiayuan b2 area and the surrounding kindergarten were approved on March 6 and 4 of this year, respectively. It is clear that "the project came first, and the groups of concern raised by the stakeholders came later."
Stakeholder: the representative of Qiaojiazhuang said, "Our ancestors have been living in Qiaojiazhuang for hundreds of years, did you lay high-voltage lines earlier than we did?" Approval sequential situation may only exist in a few localized areas, but from the perspective of high-voltage towers overall stakeholders, sequential does not matter, the important thing is that we are facing electromagnetic pollution. As long as the high-voltage towers exist for a day, we have to fight against the towers for a day.
■ Focus four
"Report" authenticity difficult to distinguish
Beijing Electric Power Company representative: received the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau "deadline to make up for the environmental protection approval procedures" notice, we commissioned a legitimate environmental assessment agencies China Railway The EIA Center of China Academy of Sciences monitored, researched and verified the project. The results show that all data meets the national standards.
Stakeholders: the questionnaire of the EIA Center is problematic. Of the 102 questionnaires, 54 were directed at Paiwangjiaoyuan and 10 at Building 1. "Are you polluted by electromagnetism?" Questions such as these are inducing. The project has not been completed and residents will not be exposed to electromagnetic pollution. Professor Zhao Yufeng, director of the Expert Committee of the Indoor Environment Testing Working Committee of the China Interior Decorators Association, said the EIA Center uses outdated instruments in the testing of important data, and that under the same circumstances, the data measured with precision instruments go against national standards.
■ Focus five
Not the center of the city is a trunk road
Beijing Electric Power Company: According to the national "urban electric power planning specification gb50293-1999" regulations, within the four rings of the high-voltage power lines must be into the ground, can not be aerial, but outside of the fourth ring But outside the fourth ring, there is no clear regulation. The project is outside the fifth ring, so there is no hard and fast rule on whether high voltage towers should be put into the ground.
Stakeholder: The representative of Bawangjiaoyuan argued that the neighboring flats along the project route are indeed not in the city center, high-build-up areas, busy streets and other areas, but the high-voltage lines do cross the city's main roads. For example: high-voltage lines through the Nongda North Road has long been included in the city's main roads, in accordance with the national "urban power planning norms gb50293-1999," the provisions of the 220-kilovolt transmission line project has not yet been completed is a violation of the project.
■ Link
High-voltage into the ground will cost 400 million
According to the power sector, the "transmission" project can carry a million kilowatts of load, and can effectively improve the power supply capacity of the northwestern part of the capital. A person familiar with the matter said the project would cost about 400 million yuan if the high voltage is put into the ground.
Surrounding house prices face depreciation
Representatives of the 451st floor of the National Defense University believe that the erection of high-voltage towers has already affected house prices in their neighborhood. An elderly gentleman surnamed Zhou told reporters that since there are rumors of the erection of high-voltage power towers this year, the rent of his house has been reduced from the previous 1,800 yuan per month to 1,700 yuan, and many tenants have lowered the price of their homes on the grounds of electromagnetic pollution. This has jeopardized his property rights. It was also revealed that the sale and purchase of second-hand properties had also been affected, with the number of enquiries dropping significantly. He said, "The high-voltage pylons have made his house, which he has worked hard all his life to get, face devaluation."
■Nomenclature
Electromagnetic radiation: the magnetic field generated by high-voltage lines within a certain range of harm to the human body, manifesting itself in the damage to the central nervous system and lead to muscular capacity disorders. Surveys show that the incidence of blood cancer in children within 50 meters of high-voltage lines is higher. (Beijing Times/Xia Mingqun)
Whether radiation into the focus of the hearing Summer Palace outside the high-voltage line next month to determine the pros and cons
Hearing 12 units have said that there is an adverse effect, the power sector believes that the project is feasible, the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, said the final assessment in September
Yesterday, Paiwang Home Garden hundreds of homeowners who were not allowed access to the hearing venue in the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau Mission Center to watch live video.
Yesterday afternoon, at Beijing's first public hearing on environmental protection, on the question of whether there are violations and electromagnetic radiation from the Xishatun-Lulangzhuang 220kv transmission line (for related reports, see yesterday's a16 edition of this newspaper), representatives of 12 units along the line, including Paiwangjiayuan and Summer Palace, unanimously claimed that there were adverse effects. North China Power Grid Co.'s Beijing Electric Power Co. (hereafter referred to as Beijing Power Co.) took up the defense, and the hearing lasted three hours. Officials from the city's environmental protection bureau said a final evaluation of the transmission line's environmental impact report will be made on or about Sept. 9, according to regulations.
Whether radiation into the focus of the hearing
Participating in yesterday's hearing a **** there are 13 units of representatives, one side is the construction of the transmission line - Beijing Electric Power Company, the other side of the transmission line has a relevant stake in the Paiwang Family Court, Summer Palace Management Office and 12 other units.
The hearing focused on whether the Xishatun-Shangzhuang-Liulangzhuang 220kv/110kv (12#-36# pylons in the Shangqing section) transmission line would cause electromagnetic radiation pollution and its impact on neighboring units and residents.
Power company first defense
Beijing Electric Power Company first said that this line is one of several important lines being implemented in Beijing, and that pylons 12# to 36# are the second stage from Xishatun to Shangzhuang. The project is one of the more major projects for Beijing to fully launch the construction of Olympic venues and promote the city's economic and social development, and is also listed as one of the city's 66 key projects.
Subsequently, the Beijing Electric Power Company presented the project's environmental impact report, which was completed in July (the project did not have an environmental impact report before it began, and the city's Environmental Protection Bureau had previously asked it to complete it in accordance with the law), stating that electromagnetic radiation along the transmission line was lower than the current national standard, and concluding that "analyzing the project from the point of view of environmental protection, it is The project is feasible from the point of view of environmental protection," the company concluded.
The units along the line demanded that the line be paved into the ground
The 12 stakeholders around the transmission line did not agree with the Beijing Electric Power Company's environmental evaluation report, and made statements about the electromagnetic radiation that the transmission line might bring to their lives and work in the future from their own perspectives, demanding that the section of the high-voltage line be paved into the ground. Among them, Wu Zhenping, a representative of the owners of Paiwang Garden, submitted 12 pieces of relevant evidence and invited five experts in electromagnetic fields, including Prof. Zhao Yufeng, as witnesses.
The final stage of the hearing was a debate between the parties, and whether the electromagnetic radiation from the transmission lines met the standards became the focus of the debate, with all parties producing relevant evidence.
EPA calls off line construction
Yesterday's hearing produced no results. The relevant person in charge of the city's Environmental Protection Bureau said that through the hearing, they have collected evidence and opinions of all parties, after exhaustive investigation and study, the environmental protection department will be in September 9 or so on this transmission line of the environmental impact report to make the final evaluation, and the current project should be in a state of suspension.
Finally, representatives of the power companies said that their views and ideas have been fully expressed during the hearing, which reflected their respective rights.
■Owners questioned
"Residents of high-voltage lines can not escape electromagnetic radiation"
Owners' representatives believe that the power company cited the standard is difficult to solve the long-term hazards to the health of residents
In yesterday's hearing, one of the owners of the Paiwangjiaoyuan owners' representatives of the Wu Zhenping, Beijing Electric Power Co. questioned whether this administrative license application is illegal.
Question one
Administrative license application is illegal, Wu Zhenping said, "Environmental Impact Assessment Law," Article 21 provides that the construction unit in the approval of the environmental construction project should be carried out before the environmental impact report, to seek the views of relevant stakeholders.
At the same time, the environmental impact of electromagnetic radiation related management methods also clearly stipulates that more than 100kv power transmission line power facilities require environmental assessment. However, Beijing Electric Power Company did not fulfill the above regulations before construction.
Wu Zhenping also believes that the Beijing Electric Power Company violated the provisions of Chapter 7 of the Urban Electric Power Planning Code, which states that "underground cables should be used for the construction of lines above 35kv in the downtown area, high-rise building clusters, main roads and busy streets in urban areas".
He said the pylons are located on Nongda North Road, which is clearly planned by the city planning commission as an urban trunk road.
Question two
Is electromagnetic radiation harmful to people at the meeting, the impact of electromagnetic radiation on residents became the focus of debate.
Wu Zhenping said, if the high-voltage corridor is built, residents have to live under the high-voltage lines for decades, studies have shown that 220kv high-voltage lines around the 40-meter to 300-meter range of the population suffered from leukemia, cancer, the odds of other areas several times, electromagnetic radiation can also lead to pregnant women abortions, fetal malformations and so on.
Question three
Whether the cited radiation standards are authoritative for the Beijing Electric Power Company in the report cited the standards of the International Radiation Association and made the conclusion that there is no harm to the human body, this standard has also been questioned by the delegates and experts.
Gao Yougang, chairman of the Chinese branch of the Electromagnetic Compatibility Society, said the standards for magnetic fields are inconsistent around the world, and there is no official national standard in China.
So standards should be cited on a case-by-case basis, with long-term residents and short-term stays being different and applying to different groups of people. He argued that the standards cited by BEPC in its report can only address the immediate health damage caused by short-term exposure, and that there is not enough valid data to give a limit on the risk from long-term exposure. The standards cited by Beijing Power Company cannot answer the question of the long-term danger of electromagnetic radiation to the lives and health of residents.
After the hearing, some owners agreed that the hearing was a victory and played a key role in resolving the issue. But some owners also expressed concern about the outcome of the hearing.
■Representative views
Summer Palace recommended the removal of high-voltage towers
that objectively have an impact on the overall landscape, the surrounding hospitals, parks have also raised objections
At yesterday's hearing, the Summer Palace management office of the representative of the Summer Palace that the high-voltage towers in the vicinity of the Summer Palace in the objective impact on the overall landscape of the Summer Palace, the high-voltage towers are recommended to be removed, the cable is replaced by underground laying.
Summer Palace that the height of the high-voltage towers "exceeded"
The representative said that in December 1998, the Summer Palace was listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. China in 1998 to UNESCO's government instruments, a solemn commitment to the Summer Palace around the scenic design, vegetation, cultural relics to protect the landscape, for the composition of the Summer Palace landscape environmental impact of temporary buildings gradually removed, the construction of the construction area of the building height to implement a certain degree of control.
The representative said, in accordance with the Beijing Municipal cultural relics protection units, the scope of protection and the management of the building control zone, the control height of the second type of area is 3.3 meters, three types of areas control height of 9 meters or more. At present, the height of the high-voltage line pylons provided by the power company is 34 meters.
From the current effect of the five line towers erected by the power company, the line towers can be seen in the Summer Palace, which objectively has an impact on the overall landscape of the Summer Palace. He suggested that the Summer Palace Management Office with the cultural relics department of the same opinion that from the protection of the Summer Palace landscape environment as the main starting point, while the proposed removal of the line towers, cables into the underground laying, at the same time, this is the fulfillment of the government's commitment to the UNESCO initiative.
Hospital: electromagnetic radiation interference instruments and patients
Located in the transmission line of the nearest medical unit - the People's Liberation Army 309 Hospital that the hospital's scientific instruments to obtain valuable results in the measurement can not be subjected to any interference, so the environmental requirements are very strict!
The most basic thing is that the equipment is far away from all kinds of interference sources, external electric field interference is an important factor.
Electromagnetic radiation can lead to the measurement system can not work properly, serious damage to the equipment. At the same time, the hospital also has a portion of the patients who are walking with their instruments, including those who have pacemakers installed in their bodies, and this AC magnetic field may interfere with the pacemakers, which may jeopardize the patient's life in a short period of time.
Subsequently, representatives of the Baiwangshan Forest Park near the transmission line argued that the high-voltage line next to the park not only affects the landscape, but also electromagnetic radiation affects the health of visitors.
Representatives from the Institute of Medicinal Plants of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences also said that the environmental impact of high-voltage lines on cultivated seeds must be ruled out.
■Power company response
"The line project has the legitimacy"
Hearing, to be the owner's representative to express their views, the Beijing Electric Power Company's representative Tian Lu explained some of the issues.
It has been considered to minimize the impact of the surrounding he said, Xishatun - Shangzhuang - Liulangzhuang 220kv / 110kv transmission line project is approved by the State Power Corporation review. This project is the use of the original 35kv line overhead path, this 35kv line has been operating for more than ten years, there is legitimacy. Continuing to undertake the construction of 220kv on this path has taken into account the need to occupy less land, less impact on the surrounding area, and minimize the impact on the surrounding area.
Nongda North Road is not the city's main arterial road for the main road problem, he said, the national planning department to define the downtown area is within the Fourth Ring Road, and the location of the Paiwang Family Garden is outside the Fifth Ring Road, belonging to the Nongda North Road belongs to the city road, but is not the city center of the main arterial road. The city government once proposed, within the fourth ring road overhead line into the ground and did not consider the fifth ring.
For the power company in the project environmental impact report cited the International Radiation Association standards, the project's environmental evaluation department representative Zhang Chen said, now the only domestic standards can draw on is the 500kv ultra-high-voltage line of the specification, the specification limit value is very clear, when other standards development is still not very sound, can only consider this recommended standards.
********
The TV tower is electromagnetic radiation.
Electromagnetic radiation pollution is recognized as air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution after the "fourth major public health hazard", the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment has been included in the electromagnetic radiation must be controlled one of the main pollution. Experts explain that any charged body has electromagnetic radiation, which is colorless, tasteless and invisible, can penetrate a variety of substances, including the human body, the human body, if long-term exposure to radiation doses exceeding safety standards, the cells will be killed or killed by a large area, and produce a variety of diseases. This part exceeds the standard electromagnetic radiation called electromagnetic radiation pollution. Pollution sources that can create electromagnetic radiation pollution are everywhere, there are television and radio transmission towers, radar stations, communication transmitters, substations, high-voltage power lines, as well as computers, cell phones, microwave ovens, electromagnetic stoves and so on. Electromagnetic waves in the air is a straight line propagation, theoretically speaking, the electromagnetic intensity near the TV tower is relatively small, similar to the "black light feeling".
Generally speaking: residential buildings are much shorter than the antennas of TV towers. The antenna emits electromagnetic waves from the main flap over the top of the surrounding buildings to the far side of the radiation, so the surrounding ground and some high-rise buildings are in the TV tower radiation of electromagnetic waves in the weak sub-flap area. But long-term in the weak sub-flap electromagnetic wave region may also appear the following performance, such as home wireless phone noise, often dropped; Nearby residents produce dizziness, insomnia, irritability, neurasthenia, memory loss, accelerated heart rate, easy to fatigue and other symptoms (the elderly, children, in particular) and so on.
China's introduction of the "electromagnetic radiation protection regulations" gives the most sensitive section of the standard is the public for 40 microwatts / square centimeters, than the West and the international standards to be four times more stringent. Therefore, before the use of television stations, you should ask the relevant departments (such as the Environmental Radiation Testing Center) to carry out an environmental impact assessment of the new TV tower to meet the standards before it can be put into use.