Thermal Power Plants Danger Hair In China
27.09.2010 Deutsche Welle English
] A new thermal power plant opens almost every week for the last eight years in China. The waste of the power plants near the settlement sites is greatly damaging the natural life.
In any country of the world, coal is not used as much as in the People's Republic of China. China still acquires 70 percent of energy from coal. The international public is subject to the harmful effects of public coal in China while interested in the carbonioxide emission, which is released into the atmosphere of countless thermal plants. [
The Chifeng village in the north of China is only one of the settlements exposed to the dangers caused by thermal power plants. Here wind and storm brings a new dust mass every time. Powder sets in Chifeng are covered as a white-gri mass, a layer of houses, crumbs, animals and plants.
The woman named Han Shuhong from the inhabitants of the uterus states that everything is terrible when he winds. It expresses that everything is covered with dust, if it is not possible to stand out when wind is out. [
Where does the powders and coal ash come? Powders come from the hills of coal ash near the village. Oraya is located nearby from the thermal power plant. Since China meets the need of energy coal, coal ashs come in the list of industrial wastes.
Greenpeace following[
As a result of a research conducted by Greenpeace, a new thermal power plant has been established every week in eight years in China. Yang Ailun from Greenpeace China, stated that China produces about 370 million tons of coal every year, they continued their words as follows: “This amount is two times more than Chinese household trash, or up to fill a pool every two minutes, or until the Beijing Olympic swimming pool can fill in one day. “
]Coal ash in the north of China damage to the already lost area and limited water sources. Coal ash is poisonous and contains heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and arsenic. These heavy metals are mixed in the ground and drinking water, from there, they are getting into foodstuffs.
]Back conversion insufficient[
Greenpeace researched in 14 thermal power plants similar to it in China. However, nowhere the ash is stored professionally or destroyed.. In addition, the hills where a ash is collected are extremely close to settlements. Yet in China, about 60 percent of coal ash is recycled, and attention is taken to be evaluated as brick and asphalt. Yang Ailun from Greenpeace China: "The conversion rates are exaggerated" said that the state has not been recycled by 60 percent as claimed.
Huan Yulan in Chifeng village is experiencing animal deaths due to toxic ash. And recently many people began to ask if their villages are a future.
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