On March 1, the reporter came into the village roadside wind inclined shaft waste stone yard to see, about six acres of waste rock yard was a trench, and now has been reclaimed, but there are still a large number of dumped waste rock exposed to the surface at the southern end, mixed with bauxite in the middle.
Zhongzhai villagers told reporters that nearly 10 years before 2016, the waste rock yard piled open-air dolomite, dolomitic limestone (with dissolving carbonate) is 67 meters high, no cover and no barrier. That is to say, no flood interception ditch or slag dam has been built in the waste rock yard according to the requirements of EIA.
The relocation scope of 500 meters referred to in the EIA approval refers to industrial sites or waste rock dumps? Director Yuan of Qingzhen City Ecological Environment Bureau (former Environmental Protection Bureau) told reporters that there will be two protective distances in EIA, namely, air protection distance and sanitary protection distance. A protective circle with a radius of 500 meters is drawn with a specific solid waste dump pollution point as the center. "If it is an industrial site, it will be a circle with a radius of 500 meters." Mina is too big. The sanitary protection distance of 500 meters originates from the standard requirement of setting up waste rock yard, and there is no standard requirement of sanitary protection distance for industrial sites.
Although enterprises have explained it according to their own logic, there are also different voices that believe that enterprises have illegal facts.
Wang Canfa, professor and doctoral supervisor of China University of Political Science and Law, believes that there are two restrictions on the approval of environmental impact assessment, namely, relocation of Zhongzhai, construction of flood interception ditches and slag dams in waste rock yards, which have not been fulfilled by enterprises. According to law, violation of the restrictions in the permit is tantamount to violation of the law on which the permit is issued, that is, violation of the law. Enterprises must relocate villages and then agree to the construction of enterprises. If the enterprises fail to fulfill the requirements of environmental protection completion and acceptance. The environmental protection department that issued the EIA approval should revoke the EIA approval. If the environmental protection department still lets the acceptance pass in this case, according to Article 33 of the Environmental Assessment Law, the staff members of the examination and approval department should be investigated for their negligence and dereliction of duty.
Villagers believe that the revised EIA only involves the abolition of the waste rock dump, not the denial of the original EIA. By changing the EIA, Chinalco Guizhou Branch wants to cancel the long-overdue responsibility and the 10-year environmental impact caused by the No.1 waste rock dump and the Huifeng inclined shaft waste rock dump. The current dilemma of Zhongzhai Group 1, 2 and 3 is due to the enterprises’ desperate efforts to reduce costs, and the administrative departments do not at all. Want to investigate the cause.
"How long will it take us to move all?"
According to the data, the bauxite reserves in Guizhou account for about one-fifth of the whole country, of which Qingzhen and Xiuwen have the most bauxite reserves and the highest grade.
Song Xianxu, deputy mayor of Qingzhen, said that Qingzhen is a traditional heavy industrial city with a billion-grade recycling ecological aluminum industry demonstration base, but Qingzhen is also the most sensitive area for ecological protection in Guiyang. Qingzhen is only 20 kilometers away from Guiyang. It is the west gate of Guiyang and the drinking water source protection area of Guiyang. Therefore, it is the primary task of developing and protecting the environment of Qingzhen.
Living in a place where people are always nervous and increasingly depressed, Wang Zhengfeng, a villager, is most worried about "how long will we have to wait for all the relocation?" But nobody can answer this question at the moment.
Huang Youzhong told reporters that with the continuous expansion of land disasters caused by mining in China Aluminum Guizhou Branch, there have been hundreds of disputes between villagers and enterprises.
Liu Yong, Secretary of the Party Committee of Zhanjie Town of Qingzhen City, said that the government and enterprises of Zhanjie Town have done a lot of work in recent years to resolve contradictions and disputes. Town Party committees centralize villagers'demands, categorize them into different categories and prioritize them. If there are special funds, they will be solved by the government. For example, by relocating a batch of poverty alleviation workers in different places and assisting them with employment guidance, the villagers will not be afraid of returning to their old houses as far as possible. If there are no funds at hand, they will consult with enterprises, and the houses cannot be identified as residential and need to be relocated by enterprises. Compensation for industry; those identified as repairable shall be compensated by enterprises; for some possible problems such as road and farmland collapse, they shall be included in the company's construction projects.
The waste rock yard of the return air inclined shaft was originally a trench, but now it has been filled and reclaimed. Photo credit: Chen Jie, Chief Journalist of Beijing News
From 2009 to 2015, the town government commissioned Guizhou Construction Science Research and Inspection Center to conduct safety appraisal of villagers'houses. According to the appraisal report, Chinalco Guizhou Branch assisted the non-controversial village group to relocate through the town government; for the controversial group 1, 2 and 3 of the overall relocation disputes in Zhongzhai, the town government's approach is to guide the villagers to seek more reasonable solutions mainly through legal means.
Yan Tianzhi, general manager of the mining company of China Aluminum Guizhou Branch, said that the company was also actively solving the production and living problems of villagers. According to the mining rights line (not EIA report and approval), the company currently relocated 129 households. In the first phase, 80 households of Shanglongjing, Longtan Dam and Longtoushan were relocated to the West Ring District of Zhanjie Town. The investment cost of the second phase was 36 million yuan. According to the appraisal of housing safety made by Guizhou Architectural Science Research Center, 22 households in Zhongpo and 12 households in Zhongzhai were relocated, and the company paid 8 million yuan for monetary compensation for relocation. Due to the leakage of land, 600 mu of "water to drought" was replaced by 600 mu of "water to drought", and the Guizhou Branch of Chinalco paid 700 yuan per mu per year for the villagers compensation of "water to drought" once every five years, totally 3.9 million yuan for two periods. In order to solve the travel difficulties of villagers in Zhongzhai and Zhongpo, 6 kilometers of rural roads were built and 3 kilometers hardened. Every year, it invests 1 million yuan to provide free water and electricity for villagers. This year, it also sponsored the Peach Blossom Festival of February in Zhongzhai (the traditional festival of four printing seedlings) of 10,000 yuan.
Huang Youzhong told reporters that Yan Tianzhi's statement that 12 households have been relocated in Zhongzhai is not accurate. In fact, only 4 households have been relocated. The rest of the households only paid for the demolition of a single room, such as a kitchen, bedroom, etc.
Liu Yong, Secretary of the Party Committee of Zhanjie Town, said that the Guizhou Branch of Chinalco did a lot of work, but the gap between compensation and villagers ‘yearning for a better life was still wide, and the villagers' inner fear lingered.
In May 2014, a working group was set up in Zhanjie Town. Referring to the gun damage compensation standard of the construction project of Huancheng Expressway in Guiyang City, an additional 5 yuan per square meter was added. The Compensation Standard for Renovation of Villagers ‘Housing in Zhanjie Zhongzhai (Longtan Zhongpo) was formulated. 77 households need to be repaired and strengthened. After household-by-household accounting, the working group posted a public notice, and the villagers repaired themselves, but no one
In November 2014, after consulting and communicating with the Zhanjie Town Government, Chinalco Guizhou Branch entrusted qualified construction units to enter the site for maintenance. Villagers proposed that "maintenance can be done, three feet of excavation can be done, and reconstruction can be overturned", which led to the failure of maintenance.
Villager Peng Rongzhong told reporters that the company's practice is to return a corner of your house when it collapses and a wall when it cracks, which will be repaired every year when it collapses, but this patch-like maintenance will not cure the root cause. Villagers have only one request, the whole relocation.
Waiting for the Second Trial
(To be continued.)
Original Chinese news article:
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News article translated by / Jia Yueran Modified by / Niu Jingmei