China Environmental Law

This is how it is supposed to work.  The developer (a branch of China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation) of the proposed Maoming paraxylene (PX) project to be built within the Maoming Oil Refinery Plant has apparently learned the lessons from Xiamen where well-orchestrated, but unsanctioned, public protests forced the relocation of a similar facility.
It is conducting [...]

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The Ministry of Environmental Protection released the English summary of its “State of the Environment” report earlier this month.  We have read it so you won’t have to.
Let’s first look at the ten achievements identified for 2008.  Where interesting facts and figures were given, we have noted them.

First, the CPC Central Committee and the State [...]

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There was a little more information in a China.org.cn story today about the Ministry of Environmental Protection’s construction ban on two large hydroelectric projects on the Jinsha River.  Both projects started construction in 2007 and both are owned by subsidiaries of large state-owned power producers (China Huaneng Group and China Huadian Corporation).  The pictures that [...]

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There have been plans for at least the last seven years to build a series of 13 dams on the middle and lower sections of the scenic Nu River in Yunnan Province.  This is no small project.  China Huadian, a state-owned power company, and developer of the project reports that “once completed the 13 dams [...]

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The Kuwait Petroleum Corporation and Sinopec proposed in 2005 to build a petrochemical refinery in Guangzhou.1  The facility will process “15 million tones of oil a year and produce 800,000 tonnes of ethylene.” 2  The Nansha District, an island at the mouth of the Pearl River, was selected as the location for the facility.  The [...]

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The Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) announced on Friday it had approved 153 projects around the country involving investments of around 470 billion yuan.  31 of the approved projects involved infrastructure development, “such as transportation and water conservation.”  Most of the projects were reported to be “part of the 4-trillion-yuan economic stimulus package announced by the [...]

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