China Environmental Law

We’ve about reached our pontification limit for the week here at CELB, so will avoid in depth analysis today and give you a quick tour of a few other China environmental stories making the headlines.
Environmental Protests
More than 1,000 residents in Zhentou, Hunan Province, “demonstrated outside local government headquarters and a police station, demanding greater compensation [...]

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As China Daily is reporting, you can now get “realtime” (it’s updated every four hours) information about the quality of water in some of China’s major rivers and lakes online.  The results show pH level and concentrations of dissolved oxygen (DO), total organic carbon (TOC), and chemical oxygen demand (COD).  When I tried it out, [...]

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China fine tuned its 2008 “energy intensity” number yesterday and announced that the energy used to generate each dollar of gross domestic product fell 4.59 percent (to 1.107″ton of coal equivalents”/10,000RMB of GDP).  This is good news, but will still require over the next two years a combined 10.4% drop from the 2005 baseline to [...]

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Citing an “industry source,” Reuters reported on Wednesday that “December power output from plants connected to major grids fell to 275.99 billion kilowatt hours, 6.4 percent down on December 2007,”  the third monthly year-on-year decline.  The article motes that the 7 percent year-on-year fall in November “was the biggest drop for a non-holiday month on [...]

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Caijing published an article yesterday which contained some encouraging news (somewhat less encouraging if you are not a big fan of nuclear) about the trends that emerged in China’s power sector in 2008.
Here are the interesting figures:
Totals:

Total investment in power sector: RMB 576.3 billion (1.52 percent more than the previous year, according to a report [...]

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