Ningbo to launch special environment-protection campaign
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- Category: Governmental News
- Published: Tuesday, 27 March 2012 08:26
According to the related meeting held on March 21, in accordance with the planning by Ningbo Municipal Government, a special environment-protection campaign on treating illegal sewage discharge enterprises will be jointly launched by the Environmental Protection Bureau, the Development and Reform Committee, the Economy and Information Committee and other related departments, aiming at solving the environmental issues that may affect scientific development and public health.
It is learned that this campaign will mainly deal with those heavy metal emission enterprises and hazardous waste generation and treatment enterprises, strengthening the law enforcement and supervision of those key emission reduction industries.
Regarding treating the heavy metal emission enterprises, Ningbo is to keep on strengthening and deepening the achievements gained in the lead-acid battery industry. The pollution treatment in the electroplating industry will be accelerated and remediation of heavy metal emission enterprises featuring non-ferrous metal mining and melting will be further carried out, thus promoting the treatment and improvement of such enterprises involving heavy metal pollution as electroplating, leather making and medical chemistry. Drastic actions will be taken to those unqualified enterprises to avoid various kinds of heavy metal emission incidents.
As to the supervision and control of hazardous waste emission, Ningbo is to make great efforts to check the related waste generation enterprises on their related measures of registration, storage and treatment and to investigate whether there are any unauthorized disposing changes or arbitrary treatments. While to waste treatment enterprises, the emphasis will be put on the unlicensed operations, and once those illegal activities are founded out, severe punishment will follow. Meanwhile, the check on the implement of the regulations on transferring hazardous waste will be strengthened to prevent illegal transferring and arbitrary disposal. Some related enterprises will be deemed legally responsible for polluting the environment by deliberately dumping the hazardous wastes, and they will bear the responsibility of clear up the pollution and compensate the loss.With regard to the supervision and management of key emission reduction enterprises, Ningbo is to continue its endeavor in the inspection of urban sewage treatment plants, sewage treatment plants in industrial parks and the desulfurization and denitrification facilities of thermal power enterprises, to guarantee the normal operation of those key emission reduction projects. In the meanwhile, law enforcement and inspection will be strengthened to urge such key emission reduction industries as paper-making, dyeing, leather making and cement to meet the discharge standard, accelerate the elimination of backward production capacity and effectively reduce the pollutant discharge