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Greenpeace reveals Chinese state coal company’s ruthless water grab
Posted by Greenpeace: None Given on July 23rd, 2013
Greenpeace: A state-owned Chinese coal company is overexploiting groundwater and illegally dumping toxic industrial wastewater, highlighting the need to curb the country's burgeoning coal industry, Greenpeace East Asia has revealed. In the report 'Thirsty Coal 2' [1], Greenpeace East Asia reveals that the Shenhua Group, the world's biggest coal producer by volume, is exploiting water resources in Inner Mongolia at a shocking scale. Shenhua's operations have sparked social unrest and caused severe ecological...
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Greenpeace China becomes the biggest solar power producer in Beijing
Posted by Greenpeace: None Given on April 26th, 2013
Greenpeace: At 10:48 am on 17 April in Beijing, Greenpeace made a bit of history: we joined the first batch of around 50 rooftop solar PV projects that connected to the grid in China.
And to our surprise, we learned that our modest five-kilowatt solar system is actually the biggest rooftop solar power project currently in Beijing.
Our “system” is 65 square meters of solar panels at the new GP China warehouse in Shunyi, on the outskirts of Beijing. At full capacity on a day with clear weather, these panels...
Polluting Paradise: Big brands including Gap exposed in Indonesian toxic water scandal
Posted by Greenpeace: None Given on April 17th, 2013
Greenpeace: Greenpeace International investigations have revealed the dumping of industrial wastewater containing a cocktail of toxic and hazardous chemicals, and caustic water, directly into the Citarum River, West Java. International fashion brands, including Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy are linked to this pollution through their direct business relations with PT Gistex Group; the company behind the polluting facility.
“Gap’s latest advertising campaign declares that we should ‘Be Bright’, but by collaborating...
China acknowledges ‘cancer villages’, unveils ‘breakthrough’ chemical plan
Posted by Greenpeace: None Given on February 24th, 2013
Greenpeace: Greenpeace hailed China’s commitment to clean up chemical pollution with a breakthrough chemical management plan that acknowledges for the first time the existence of ‘cancer villages’ and will blacklist 58 chemicals and have an elimination chemical list by 2015. “China has been the world’s largest chemical producer since 2010. The Plan indicates that the massive pollution found across the country, caused by large-scale chemical production and the release of hazardous chemicals, urgently needs to...
Government hypocrisy on major projects will lock in climate chaos
Posted by Greenpeace: None Given on January 22nd, 2013
Greenpeace: Government hypocrisy on major energy projects is fueling climate change and placing populations at risk, Greenpeace International said as it released a new report revealing the alarming threat posed by a planned massive global increase in emissions from coal, oil and gas projects. The 14 carbon intensive projects highlighted in the Point of No Return report range from massive coal expansion in Australia, China, the US and Indonesia, to oil expansion in the tar sands of Canada, the Arctic and Brazil...