MEP group event is raised in response to construction of waste incineration | | | group events from MSW incineration _ the Department of environmental news and information

International online news on June 4, 2014, the State Council information office held a press conference, Vice Minister of environmental protection Li Ganjie introduction environmental quality situation and answered questions. Also attending the press conference were Director of the pollution control Division of the Department of environmental protection Secretary Luo Yi Zhao Yingmin, environmental monitoring. Following is a summary of the press conference live:

　　Central People's broadcasting station voice of reporter:

Very topical with Hangzhou in May mass gathering events due to the waste incinerator project. This event very much now, would like to ask did the Ministry of environmental protection into the post processing of the event, is there any progress? Did you take some of those lessons and the lessons and avoid the occurrence of similar incidents?

　　Li Ganjie:

Group environmental event is raised on the construction of waste incineration, there are many reasons for this type of event. First of all, still in the process of rapid development of industrialization and urbanization in China, overall strength-building is relatively large, resource-environmental pressure is larger. In some places, some of the units in the development and construction process planning and layout are not scientific, not reasonable, it is a reason. Second, some units, the illegal construction of some projects there is more prominent or even run. Third, some exposed enough information during the planning and construction process of the project, public participation had not been done in place, there are some doubts to the public can't be answered in a timely manner, effective advocacy, thereby aggravating the doubts of the public, a lack of trust.

All in all, there are many reasons, the situation is more complicated, we should carefully in-depth analysis, research, and find out the reason, then, for these reasons, problems adopting targeted measures. To settlement good this problem, a is as Government, and as enterprise, and as project construction, in decision-making Qian and decision-making process in the and construction process in the to full consider local of resources environment hosted capacity, science, and reasonable to for planning layout, while must to solidly to well public publicity, and information open, and public participation and public opinion boot work, practical guarantees good public of informed right, and participation right, and supervision right. Environmental protection departments have now put this issue as a important issue attention, and approval process of the EIA documentation will be reviewed as an important content for public participation, review of related construction information open, representation, authenticity and legitimacy of public participation.

(Original title: Department of environmental responses to "waste incinerator construction triggered mass incidents" issue)

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10:56 June 04, 2014 International online