China Environmental Law

The Panyu waste incineration plant protest in Guangzhou last week was important for a number of reasons, but one of the most thoughtful takes on the event comes from an unlikely source, the Communist Party of China’s Guangdong Party School.
In an article entitled, “Confronting pollution: ‘expel it’ or ‘manage it’”? (I’d welcome a better translation, [...]

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As I write, a protest is taking place in Guangzhou, against plans to build a waste incineration plant.  I don’t know much about the facts of the case, such as where is it in the planning process, has an Environmental Impact Assessment been performed, was the public consulted, were there hearings, etc.  But the demonstration [...]

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I am not going to write anything today because you must read this article from Caijing Magazine: Heavy Metal Warfare.  It covers the smelting industry along the Xiang river in Hunan province 1 the , and in the process provides a telling picture of the challenges faced by Chinese environmental regulators across the vast rural [...]

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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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Among the 153 project EIAs approved by The Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) last Friday was one for the Tenglong Aromatic PX Co Ltd 14-billion-yuan (US$204.8 million) project to produce the petrochemical paraxylene in Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province.  Does this facility ring a bell?  Yes, this is the plant that launched one of the first [...]

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