China dumps toxic waste in the world's seas

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http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/disasters/28-02-2006/76614-chinese_pollution-0
China is causing a serious ecological threat to countries in South-Eastern Asia. The problem was discussed recently in Khabarovsk at a meeting about the Amur River.



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There have been 45 serious ecological incidents in the last two months at companies that are situated on the banks of the rivers in China. There was a dangerous explosion at a factory in Jilin, when nearly 100 tonnes of toxic waste was dumped into the Sungari River. The whole world has observed that poisonous liquids are flowing into China. However, nothing has been done about the fact that each year nearly 15 billion tones of everyday and industrial waste is being dumped into the Chinese Sungari River. Experts think that dangerous metals, nitrates, nitrites, phosphates and many other toxic elements are in the polluted water which is allowed to flow freely through the border.

“The polluting of the Amur River is an international problem,” says the Khabarovsk governor Victor Ishaev, “The poisonous water flows into the Amur Estuary, the Gulf of Sakhalin and through the Tartar Strait into the Japanese and Okhotsky Sea. These are the regions where there are the largest naval industries in the world. Much of the toxic waste does not dissolve in the water, but are insoluble oils. The harmful products affect fish and other marine life which then end up in Russia , Japan and Korea .

Ecologists are certain that about 80 percent o the River of China is so polluted that not only is the water unsuitable for drinking but also to be used in industry. The situation in the Amur River became much more serious after the explosion at a factory in Jilin in November 2005. After this disaster there has been one incident after another at Chinese businesses. In their quest for mass industrialization, the Chinese are willing to make sacrifice water quality and conceal the polluting of rivers from the eyes of the world. The Chinese authorities, for example, only informed the Russians about the incident in Jilin eleven days after it had taken place. In the meantime harmful waste had been flowing towards our borders. In the end it turned out that the oil slick stretched for 200km not 50 as the Chinese told us.

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We are fighting for oil right now but soon we will be fighting over water...

They are poisoning themselves for profit!!!

[CrazyOrangeCat]

1. We can thank the Repukes for this.

They didn't want to bother with the EPA and the Clean Air/Water legislation. So they closed down our plants, put us out of work, and let the Chinese gov't do the polluting. With slave labor.

Lurking freeps==> Go Cheney yourselves!

[wordpix]

7. you're right---it's outsourcing pollution, in short, with no environmental

controls so Chinese manufacturing is "cheap" and we get their products "cheap."

I do not shop at Walmart but am now in complete "boycott China" mode.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

8. Yes.

I have shopped at Walmart one time in the last twenty years, because I saw early on what they were doing to small towns in Ks and Mo.

I don't know how in the world to boycott Chinese stuff . . . but I'm willing to try if you are.

--orangecat

p.s. I stopped in Litchfield on a cool, bright September afternoon. What a pretty place!

[mom cat]

2. That is one of the advantages of outsourcing. We send them the

poisonous plants that can poison "their" people instead of "ours". :sarcasm:

[delete_bush]

3. which is why "free" trade

is not "fair" trade. Difficult to get knuckle-draggers to understand this concept.

Had a discussion prior to '04 election with a libertarian style repuke on free trade, my argument was that if Mexico, as an example, manufactures a given product without regard to environmental concerns, and then the resultant toxins waft over to the U.S., and more explicitly to his house and children, then regardless of wages, how can we compete on the open market if we our plants are required to make sizable capital investments for pollution control. Wouldn't it make more sense for us to be in the vanguard of environmental technology and at the same time require our trading partners to have equivalent environmental standards?

He said he never thought of it this way, probably voted repuke anyway.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. WMD by any other name.... a bit slower than anthrax, but in the

long run, just as effective, perhaps more.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. Georgia and Russia on the verge of war?

http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav022306.shtml

[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. The U. S. dumps, too....we just hide it better.