Shocking problem although rare, but individual problems are quite prominent
second round of the fourth installment of the central public environmental protection inspector case
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The Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspection Team pointed out that the five provinces of Guangdong, Jilin, Sichuan, Hubei, and Shandong, as well as the two central enterprises of China Nonferrous Metals Group and China National Gold Group, should instruct relevant departments to further investigate and clarify responsibilities. Accurate and effective accountability.
□ Our reporter Xi Jianrong
Recently, following the disclosure of the second round of the fourth batch of central ecological and environmental protection inspections, a number of prominent ecological and environmental issues have been publicly exposed.
A reporter from the "Rule of Law Daily" noted that although "shocking" problems are rare, the ecological environment in some places and companies, especially violations of laws and regulations, are still prominent, and some of the problems are still quite serious.
In September of this year, the Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspector conducted a one-month inspection of five provinces including Guangdong, Jilin, Sichuan, Hubei, and Shandong, as well as two central enterprises of China Nonferrous Metals Group and China National Gold Group.
From December 12th to 14th, the 7 inspection teams reported their inspections to 5 provinces and two central enterprises.
As of the time of feedback from the inspectors, 1,115 leading cadres have been held accountable.
After the inspection team reported the inspection situation to the five provinces and two central enterprises, they also handed over the accountability of ecological damage to them.
The inspection team pointed out that the five provinces and two central enterprises should instruct relevant departments to further investigate and clarify responsibilities for the issue of dereliction of duty and responsibility, and accountability is serious, precise and effective.
Where compensation for damage to the ecological environment is required or a public interest lawsuit needs to be filed, it shall be handled in accordance with relevant regulations.
Typical problems are repeatedly mentioned
In September this year, the inspection team publicly exposed 45 typical cases when inspecting five provinces and two central enterprises.
From December 12th to 14th, when the inspection team reported the inspection situation to the 5 provinces and two central enterprises, some problems in the 45 typical cases were mentioned again by the inspection team.
"In some sea lanes in Guangdong Province, criminals have privately modified ships for profit, washed or soaked sea sand, and even converted container ships and flatbed ships into mud washing platforms to wash construction waste, spoil or silt for construction use. Sand, high-concentration salty wastewater or muddy water, and slag are directly discharged into the river. Ecological damage and environmental pollution problems in local waters are outstanding.” This is one of the outstanding problems discovered by the inspection team during the second round of inspections of Guangdong Province in September this year. one.
Inspectors found that some illegal sand washing and mud washing vessels in the sea waterways in Guangdong Province had simple equipment and no environmental protection measures. Large amounts of sediment and wastewater were discharged directly into the river, forming a large area of yellow pollution on the water surface. The impact was bad and the masses reported constantly.
In September this year, during the inspection team stationed in Guangdong Province, this issue was publicly notified as a typical case.
On December 13, the inspection team mentioned this issue again when reporting the inspection situation to the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government.
The inspection team stated that in recent years, illegal sand washing and mud washing in the rivers of the Pearl River Delta has become more and more rampant, polluting the water quality of the rivers, changing the shape of the river bed, and adversely affecting the habitat and reproduction of aquatic organisms.
Relevant departments directly under Guangdong Province did not take the initiative in this regard, and the supervision was not strong enough. The illegal sand washing and mud washing failed to be effectively curbed.
The illegal development of real estate in Meishan City, Sichuan Province and the destruction of the ecological environment of the Heilongtan water source were a typical case that was made public when the inspection team was stationed in Sichuan Province in September this year.
In response to this case, on December 13, the inspection team pointed out when reporting the inspection situation to the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government that since April 2018, Meishan City had illegally developed real estate projects in the Heilongtan Drinking Water Source Quasi-Protection Zone. There are as many as 1,097 projects under construction and completed in the two areas of Changdao Future City and Tianfu Eco-city, covering an area of approximately 3,222 acres.
Without the power of legal interpretation, the Legislative Interpretation Committee of the People’s Congress of Meishan City violated the original intent of the legislation to “give the green light” for real estate development in the area; the Provincial Forestry and Grass Bureau handled the formalities for the use of forest land for the above-mentioned projects in violation of regulations, and 342.56 acres of forest land in the quasi-protected area was covered. Encroach.
On December 13th, the inspection team pointed out when reporting the inspection situation to China National Gold Group that Tongguan Zhongjin Gold Mining is located in the general protection area of the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains. More than 40 historical waste residue sites occupy the original vegetation, destroy the landform, and falsify the ecological restoration. , Dongtongyu’s internal waste slag field was subcontracted to the Tongguan Xingye Stone Slag Plant. Although the name of the plant is ecological treatment, it is actually excavated stone.
Tongguan Zhongjin Smelting is less than 10 kilometers away from the main stream of the Yellow River, and has been punished by administrative penalties on many occasions due to environmental violations.
The reason why the above problem is mentioned again is enough to prove the seriousness of the problem.
The "two highs" problem has become a common problem
Judging from the public inspection situation of the inspection team, the five provinces all have the problem of "two highs".
Obviously, this problem has become a common problem.
Through the inspection of Guangdong Province, the inspection team found that although Guangdong Province is an economically developed province, "the impulse to launch the'two highs' project blindly still exists."
The inspection team pointed out that since 2020, of the 121 “two highs” projects under construction or completed in Guangdong that use more than 10,000 tons of standard coal, 42 have not been reviewed for energy conservation, accounting for 34.7%.
In 2021, Yunfu City will have 16 “two highs” projects under construction and planned to build more than 10,000 tons of standard coal, and the new energy consumption will exceed more than half of the city's total energy consumption.
Southern Donghai Iron and Steel's 4 million tons of special steel project capacity replacement requirements have not been implemented, and the energy-saving review has not been passed. Since 2020, the local area has also obtained 1950 acres of forest land use indicators for enterprises through the "integration into parts" method.
Shaoguan City’s “13th Five-Year Plan” energy consumption intensity and carbon emission intensity tasks have not been completed. Since 2020, there are still 9 “two highs” projects that have not been approved for construction.
Yangjiang City falsely reported the already basically completed Yangchun Zhengda Industrial Stainless Steel Plate Processing Project with an annual output of 250,000 tons as a planned project that has not yet started.
On December 13, the inspection team pointed out when reporting the inspection situation to Guangdong Province: “In the first half of 2021, the situation of energy intensity control in Guangdong Province is severe, and the relevant state departments have been given a first-level warning.”
Sichuan Province, Jilin Province, and Hubei Province have been accused of ineffective management and control of the "two highs" projects.
The inspection team revealed that since 2020, Leshan City has acquiesced to the construction of 16 high-energy-consuming projects such as the technological transformation and expansion of the high-end wall and floor tile ceramic production line of Jiajiang County Huaxing Ceramics Co., Ltd. without passing the energy-saving review.
Ceramic companies such as Sichuan Everest Porcelain Co., Ltd. have not approved the construction of 15 large slab and rock slab production lines.
The 1.2 million tons/year coking project of Jilin Xinda Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. in Liaoyuan City, Jilin Province started construction without authorization in April 2019 without obtaining energy conservation review and construction permits.
After the first phase of the 600,000-ton/year coking project is officially put into operation in January 2021, coking waste gas will be discharged directly for a long time.
Among the 36 “two highs” projects with a comprehensive energy consumption of more than 50,000 tons of standard coal that are under construction or put into production in the list reported by Hubei Province, 30 of them started construction due to incomplete procedures.
In order to promote the construction of the "Two Highs" project, Huangshi Xingang (Logistics) Industrial Park even resorted to fraud in coal substitution.
When talking about the "Two Highs" project in Shandong Province, the inspection team pointed out that some places in Shandong Province have prominent violations of the "Two Highs" projects.
Among them, 114 of the 206 “two highs” projects newly built in the province since 2018 have violated regulations.
Jining City and Tai'an City respectively built 2.6 million tons/year and 4 million tons/year coking capacity in violation of regulations.
The 19 local oil refining projects included in the list management of Dongying City are all illegally filed constructions, involving a production capacity of 60.4 million tons per year.
Corporate violations are still serious
The inspections of Guangdong, Sichuan, Jilin, Hubei and Shandong provinces are already in the second round. Judging from the information disclosed by the inspection team, although “shocking” problems are rare, there are still some problems, especially the violation of laws by enterprises affiliated to central enterprises. Violations are still serious.
A reporter from the Rule of Law Daily sorted out the outstanding issues raised by the inspection team as follows.
The inspection team pointed out that the illegal mining of rare earths in Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province is rampant, destroying a total of 39 sites of 3,581 acres of forest vegetation, but ecological restoration has gone through the process, and soil erosion and pollution problems have been prominent.
Pollution control in the Qijiang River Basin in Deyang City, Sichuan Province is seriously lagging behind. Zhongjiang County replaced conventional treatment with emergency treatment, "spreading pesticides to control pollution" upstream of the water quality section, and fraudulently interfering with water quality monitoring; most geoparks in the province have been approved for a long time without being built or built. in spite of.
Relevant documents issued by Songyuan City, Jilin Province and Dehui City, Changchun were copied; Dongfeng County, Liaoyuan City temporarily fabricated an annual work plan for ecological and environmental protection to meet the supervision; Huinan County, Tonghua City Mingzhi Longbao Forest Resort Project did not obtain any approval procedures and occupied Jilin Longwan National Nature Reserve is still strongly promoting the establishment of a guarantee mechanism.
The sewage pipeline network in Hubei Province has many historical debts, and problems such as incorrect connection, missing connection, and mixed connection of the pipeline network are prominent. Only 3,932 mixed connections have been detected in Wuhan; since 2018, Xiantao City Wuletai Boutique Resort Hotel has successively It occupies about 2,000 square meters of water surface of the drainage lake.
From 2017 to 2019, Zhucheng City, Weifang, Shandong Province, successively approved 5 construction projects in violation of regulations in the Sanlizhuang Reservoir Drinking Water Source Protection Zone, including Zhengda Prosperity New City, occupying 1,141 acres of the secondary protection area; in 2020, it will promote the illegal adjustment of the protection area .
In order to use the contaminated land for development and construction, Liaocheng City and Zibo City resorted to falsification on the survey report of the contaminated land; in Tai'an City, the control and control were not in place, and the contaminated land was used for production and operation activities for a long time.
As for the problems of the two centrally-owned enterprises, the inspection team disclosed that from 2006 to 2020, 17 of the 54 resource-integrated mineral development projects implemented by China National Gold Group violated the requirements for resource development and ecological protection.
In 2018, Ulaga Gold Mining and Inner Mongolia Mining, which were found to have outstanding problems by the Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspectorate, still scored full marks in their health, safety and environmental assessment.
In recent years, 31 companies of China National Gold Group have been punished 71 times by local authorities for unapproved construction, excessive pollution discharge, and abnormal operation of pollution prevention facilities.
China Nonferrous Mining Group Co., Ltd. was accused of "the group's environmental management is "relaxed and soft", the responsibilities are attenuated, and the problem of violations of laws and regulations is prominent." Among them, the Lindong branch of Zinc Industry Company was punished for tampering with the automatic monitoring data of pollution sources. When the inspection team entered in September, it was still discovered that the company had falsified by tampering with the intercept of online monitoring data and filling the sampling barrel with clean water, and had repeatedly tampered with the monitoring data.
The inspector found that since 2018, only China Nonferrous Mining Corporation's self-inspection has found 126 construction projects involving violations of laws and regulations.
According to the inspection team, some of these issues have been handed over to the five provinces and two central enterprises as a matter of accountability for damage to the ecological environment.
The inspection team required the five provinces and two central enterprises to disclose the rectification plan and the implementation of rectification to the public in accordance with relevant regulations.