Ministry of environmental protection in response to mass incidents caused by waste incineration: strengthening public participation | MSW | PX project group events _ news

People's daily Beijing, June 4 this morning, the Office holds press conference on situation of our country's environmental quality. Vice Minister of environmental protection Li Ganjie in response to relevant waste incinerator construction group environmental events that are raised by the Hon, said 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.

Li Ganjie explained, there are many reasons for this type of event, the situation is more complex. 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 process of building planning and layout are not scientific, not reasonable.

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.

Li Ganjie pointed out that, 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.

(Edit: SN091)
11:15 June 04, 2014 People's daily online