Saturday 10 May 2014

China says no waste plant without support after protests


Riot policemen defend themselves with shields during a protest against the construction of a waste incinerator, in the Yuhang district of Hangzhou A government in eastern China will shelve plans to build a huge waste incinerator if it does not have popular support in an apparent victory for protesters who had clashed with police saying they fear the plant will damage their health. Choking smog blankets many Chinese cities and the environmental degradation resulting from the country's breakneck economic growth is angering its increasingly well-educated and affluent population. The eastern city of Ningbo suspended a petrochemical project after days of demonstrations in November 2012, and protests forced the suspension of a paraxylene plant in the northeastern city of Dalian the year before.








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