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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RealMuLan who wrote (4704)	4/13/2005 5:49:27 PM
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Environmental News for the Day Now if we could have as much freedom here in the US to do this! THOUSANDS of Chinese farmers overturned buses, smashed cars and attacked policemen during a riot in a village in eastern China against chemical plants that they say are destroying their crops. Villagers said that 3,000 police officers armed with electric batons and teargas descended on the village of Huaxi before dawn on Sunday to clear roadblocks that villagers had set up to stop deliveries to and from chemical plants built on land where rice and vegetable farms once stood. The scene yesterday was one of complete devastation and anarchy: 40 buses lay smashed in the grounds of a local school and 14 cars were piled upside down in an alley, some draped with police uniforms. There were unconfirmed reports that two of the elderly protesters died during efforts to disperse them, and more than a hundred people were treated for minor injuries in hospital. In a country where dissent normally brings swift retribution, the weekend riots were just the latest clashes between local authorities and farmworkers, who feel marginalised by the extraordinary growth of China’s economy and the expansion of its industrial base deeper into rural areas. The 13 chemical plants in Zhejiang, built during the current economic boom and operational since 2002, produce fertiliser, dyes and pesticides. Farmers say that waste from the factories is poisoning the wells that provide their drinking water and that the plants periodically release clouds of stinging gas. They also claim that the effluents are causing stillborn babies and birth defects. - london timesonline and…oh, great….let’s just trace the waste by seeing who glows-in-the-dark! Pervasive problems plague the control of radioactive waste at the nation’s nuclear power plants, in part because the federal government has been sluggish in instituting and enforcing safeguards, according to a federal report issued yesterday. …”I would respectfully remind the NRC that the ‘R’ stands for ‘regulatory,’ ” said Sen. James M. Jeffords (I-Vt.), who, with other members of Congress, had asked the GAO to study the issue. Rep. Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.) added: “The days of letting the nuclear industry self-regulate without proper federal oversight must come to a long overdue end.” - WaPo slyfelinos.com