The Central Eco-Environmental Protection Inspector's First List of Issues for Central Enterprises Revealed
Minmetals Group's subsidiaries of China Chemical Industry's environmental violations are in urgent need of rectification
Since 2015, only 11 provinces (autonomous regions), such as Liaoning, Jiangsu, and Hunan, have imposed more than 120 penalties on environmental violations by companies under China Minmetals Corporation (hereinafter referred to as Minmetals).
Since 2013, China National Chemical Corporation (hereinafter referred to as China National Chemical) has been punished up to 287 times for ecological and environmental violations.
If it were not for the central eco-environmental protection inspector to point out publicly, it is indeed impossible to believe that these problems actually lie in the central enterprises.
In July 2019, the Central Eco-Environmental Protection Inspectorate entered the Minmetals Group and China National Chemical for the first time, and conducted a month-long eco-environmental supervision of these two central enterprises.
Today, the Central Seventh and Eighth Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspectorate Groups (hereinafter referred to as the Inspectorate Group) disclosed the inspections of these two central enterprises. Judging from the problems disclosed by the inspection team, although the two enterprises are central enterprises, the two companies, especially their subsidiaries, should not underestimate the ecological and environmental violations.
The inspection team clearly pointed out that the responsibility of the two enterprises for ecological and environmental protection was not in place and did not really integrate ecological and environmental protection into the business development of the enterprise. The inspection team requested that the two enterprises should be held accountable in accordance with regulations and disciplines, and that they should be held accountable for their negligence and responsibilities in accordance with relevant regulations.
The environmental violations of the companies of the two groups are serious
Minmetals Group and China National Chemical Corporation are the first enterprises to be stationed in the central ecological and environmental protection inspectorate.
First look at Minmetals. The inspection team ordered a bunch of illegal issues. Among them, Luzhong Mining, a subsidiary of China Minmetals Corporation, still uses the caving method to mine under the circumstances that are prohibited by order, resulting in 11 hectares of collapsed land in the mining area. Enterprises such as China Metallurgical Shaanxi Heavy Industry Equipment Company, Hunan Nonferrous Metals Group Company, Hengyang Shuikoushan Jinxin Lead Industry Company, etc. did not even accept or cooperate with local supervision.
Not only that, Dingnan Dahua Company, a subsidiary of Minmetals Rare Earth, secretly discharged industrial wastewater with chemical oxygen demand exceeding 10 times, which was discovered by local eco-environmental departments. During the second round of inspection, the company was still secretly draining wastewater. Nanchang Cemented Carbide Company has set up a private discharge port to secretly discharge wastewater with a chemical oxygen demand concentration of up to 396 mg / l. The tungsten oxide workshop has been directly discharging ammonia-containing tail gas for a long time.
Regarding China National Chemical, the inspection team clearly pointed out: "Some of the subsidiaries of China National Chemical have weak awareness of environmental laws and regulations. Since 2013, 65 production and operation enterprises have been punished administratively for environmental violations." Among them, Jinan Yuxing Chemical Co., Ltd. Petrochemical Group Co., Ltd., Bluestar Petroleum Co., Ltd. Jinan Branch and other enterprises received 40, 30, and 14 local administrative penalties for environmental violations, respectively.
At the same time, some enterprises even repeatedly broke through the legal bottom line and ignored local supervision. Shenyang Paraffin Chemical Co., Ltd. has been punished 9 times for environmental violations and violations. The cumulative fines amounted to 2.19 million yuan, but this company refused to pay a fine and tried to Transfer administrative responsibilities to third-party environmental engineering companies. In June 2018, Blue Star (Beijing) Chemical Machinery Co., Ltd. resisted the on-site inspection of the Blue Sky Defence Battle organized by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment. After the inspectors indicated their identity and presented their law enforcement certificates, they still refused to accept the inspection.
In addition, China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation condoned Shandong Changyi Petrochemical Co., Ltd. and other five affiliated companies to illegally produce and sell unqualified diesel. In 2018 alone, it sold more than 800,000 tons, and the sulfur content exceeded the standard by 985 times. Sewage from production enterprises such as Sichuan Zigong Honghe Chemical Co., Ltd. and Jiangxi Lanxinghuo Organic Silicone Co., Ltd. has been discharged for a long time, and directly enters the tributary of the Yangtze River.
Since 2013, the waste water discharged from ADMA ’s Jingzhou production base exceeded the standard 34 times, of which the total phosphorus exceeded the standard by 297 times, and the factory odor exceeded the standard 3 times. The inspectorate team said that in January last year, the company delayed and obstructed local environmental law enforcement inspections for three consecutive times in order to cover up the illegal fact that part of the sewage was mixed into the rainwater to steal the environment. During the second round of inspections, the problem of this company's odor and nuisance was still outstanding, and the masses responded very strongly.
The first round of inspectors of some illegal issues have been exposed
In fact, the ecological and environmental violations of these two central enterprises, especially their subordinate enterprises, have been exposed as early as the first round of central environmental protection inspections by local governments. However, until the second round of inspections entered the two companies directly, the problems discovered during the first round of inspections had not been rectified or even falsified.
According to the inspection team, in the first round of central environmental protection inspections and "look back" public feedback, six companies affiliated to China Chemical Industry were involved. "ChemChina has not organized to promote the rectification work, resulting in perfunctory rectification, surface rectification and pretending rectification problems." The inspection team said that among them, Heilongjiang Haohua Chemical Co., Ltd. did not promptly clean up 59,000 tons of calcium carbide slag according to the inspection rectification plan. The land was restored to its original appearance, but the calcium carbide slag was transferred to the plant area for storage by "pollution and moving" without any anti-seepage measures.
When "looking back" to the inspectors of Shandong Province in 2018, after the inspection team pointed out the illegal storage and dumping of red gypsum by Jinan Yuxing Chemical Co., Ltd., in July 2019, the company deposited more than 600,000 tons of red gypsum in the plant The cleanup was carried out, but the inspection team randomly checked 8 disposal companies and found that 7 did not have standardized storage sites, and 1 contract company did not yet have the disposal capacity, and pollution control was reduced to pollution transfer. Guangxi Bluestar Dahua Chemical Co., Ltd. still stocks about 3.7 million tons of red gypsum in the old storage yard, which is far beyond the design storage capacity and has not taken measures such as anti-spray, anti-loss, anti-leakage.
"Guizhou Tianzhu Chemical Co., Ltd. made a fraud in the rectification of the slag yard problem, deliberately concealing the fact that the slag yard did not build anti-seepage facilities according to the standard." The inspector found that the barium slag of the enterprise was directly sent into the slag without any disposal or testing. On site, the average concentration of barium and its compounds in the barium slag leached liquid is as high as 2000 mg / L, which is more than 12 times the landfill standard.
Minmetals also has the same problem. The inspection team said that in 2017, a number of subsidiaries of China Minmetals were notified by the Central Environmental Protection Inspector. In 2018, Hunan Nonferrous Chemical Oxygen Demand exceeded the total emissions. Nanchang Cemented Carbide Company ’s environmental protection issues have not been rectified, but all of them have been evaluated. Not reflected; Luzhong Mining's internal performance appraisal not only does not assess environmental protection, but also rewards mine over-exploitation behavior.
During the environmental protection inspection conducted by the central government in Jiangxi Province in 2016, the inspection team received 5 reports from the public regarding the nuisance of the red gold rare earth odor under Minmetals Rare Earth, but this company only rectified one extraction plant, and the remaining three workshops exhausted The problem of nuisance has not been solved yet. After the company was included in the relocation plan in June 2018, it completely put aside the waste gas treatment and renovation work, and only set a water seal in the extraction tank to cope with the inspection and inspection.
According to the inspection team, in accordance with the requirements of the first round of inspection and rectification, the low-altitude emission pollution and waste residue accumulation of the Minmetals Copper Smelting Branch should be rectified in place before the end of 2017. On August 28, 2018, on the eve of the “Looking Back” inspection of Hunan Province by the Central Environmental Protection Inspectorate Group, Minmetals Copper did not find a way to rectify the problem, but emphasized the need to do a preparatory plan for the inspection and customs clearance, and strive for the local ecological environment department. "reveal all the details".
The inspection team said that the problem of excessive flue gas of the pellet shaft furnace and 132 square meters sintering machine of Yingkou Zhongban Company has not been resolved for a long time. In order to deceive the honorary title, Yingkou Zhongban Company concealed the fact that it was punished 26 times for environmental violations and falsely reported The application materials create the illusion of continuous and stable emission of atmospheric pollutants, and were included in the "Green Factory Public List" by the relevant state departments in July 2019.
The responsibility of enterprise group headquarters cannot be shirk
Judging from the specific situation, most of the violations of the laws and regulations of the two enterprises lie in the subordinate enterprises. However, the inspection team believes that the headquarters of the two enterprise groups also have an inescapable responsibility.
The inspection team clearly pointed out: "Minmetals Group is not effective in tracking and supervising the environmental problems of its subsidiaries." Among them, Chenzhou Diamond Tungsten Company has serious unorganized exhaust emissions, prominent odor disturbance problems, and a large number of hazardous wastes stacked in the open air for a long time. The local authorities have repeatedly ordered rectification, but it has never been resolved. When the rectification was not in place, the group company reported to the Chenzhou government that the rectification task had been completed.
The inspection team pointed out that Minmetals Group's accountability for environmental assessment of its subsidiaries is also more than formal. For a long time, environmental protection accounted for only 2.5% of the performance assessment weight. In 2019, it even stipulated that except for major accidents, environmental issues can only be deducted at most. 2 minutes.
"In order to enter the field of rare earths, Minmetals Group still knows that the production capacity of Ganxian Hongjin Company is inconsistent with the completion of the acquisition; it has allowed Ganxian Hongjin, Dingnan Dahua and other enterprises to be built first without approval. The production task indicators that exceed the EIA's approved production capacity are issued to them. "The inspection team said," Minmetals Group only conducts a simple review of the total emission reduction data reported by its subsidiaries, and does not pay much attention to the actual work. "
After MCC changed its subsidiary Huludao Zinc Industry Company from holding to holding shares, it took about 8508 tons of sulfur dioxide emitted by the company as the group's emission reduction, accounting for 95% of the total group's sulfur dioxide emission reduction in 2016-2018 %. The inspection team said that the reduction of sulfur dioxide emissions of the entire Minmetals Group has been reduced to a digital game.
"There is only one person in the headquarters of the group who is responsible for environmental management. The safety and environmental protection departments of the secondary companies such as Bluestar, Agrochemical, Rubber, Haohua, and New Materials were only established in December 2018." In the view of the inspection team, The corporate responsibility of China National Chemical Corporation has not been put in place.
The inspection team revealed that since 2013, China Chemical Industry ’s subsidiaries have been punished up to 287 times for ecological and environmental violations, but “the group companies generally do not understand and do not understand these situations and only assess and deduct points for the 36 reported penalty cases. , The organization did not organize correction and investigation and punishment for the concealment and omission of reports. " The inspection team said that in December 2018, the Central Ecological Environmental Protection Inspection Group publicly notified Shandong Changyi Petrochemical Co., Ltd. of illegal production and sales of unqualified diesel oil and fabricated false materials against inspections. China Chemical Industry did not organize investigations and verifications until the second round of inspections The investigation and accountability were carried out temporarily after entering the station.
"In recent years, China's chemical industry has also faced serious problems of heavy scale expansion and low development quality." According to the inspection team, as of the end of 2018, 47 of the 69 local state-owned enterprises that have been merged and acquired since the establishment of the company in 2004 have been bankrupt and cancelled. , Suspend production or become a zombie enterprise, or transfer property rights, leaving a lot of outstanding ecological and environmental problems.
According to the inspection team, a list has been formed of the investigation of the responsibility for the ecological and environmental damages of the two companies discovered by the inspectors, and they have been handed over to the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council and the party committees of the two companies in accordance with the relevant procedures and authorities.
Our reporter Qi Jianrong