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Keywords
Aerial view
Air pollution
Chimneys
Climate (campaign title)
Climate change
Coal
Coal mining
Coal-fired power stations
Cooling towers
Copy space
Day
Industrial landscapes
KWCI (GPI)
Outdoors
River pollution
Rivers
Steam
Toxics (campaign title)
Industrial Park Behind the Yellow River in China
Huinong district, Shizuishan, Ningxia. The sky is being coated in soot. The Yellow River flows quietly between the industrial parks along the river in Inner Mongolia. This stretch has been called a "100 mile pollution zone" many times in the media in the past few years.
Unique identifier:
GP0STORKH
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
31/03/2014
Locations:
Asia
,
China
,
Inner Mongolia
,
Ningxia
,
Yellow River
Credit line:
© Lu Guang / Greenpeace
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
Containers
Shoot:
Coal Projects Threaten the Yellow River in China
Documentation of damage to the Yellow River, caused by the rampant expansion of coal industrial projects. The Yellow River is one of the longest and most important, fragile and iconic waterways in China. Greenpeace investigations have revealed an open-pit coal mine undermining the embankment of the Yellow River in Wuhai City, Inner Mongolia China. Massive cluster of coal processing plants are operated at dozens of industrial parks spanning hundreds of miles along the Yellow River. All these projects are highly energy, water and carbon intensive, and discharge huge amounts of waste water and flue gas.
Greenpeace calls for an immediate halt of operations at this and other coal industrial projects that threaten the Yellow River, and urges the Chinese authorities to speed up the upgrade to a more reasonable energy mix with more ambitious boosts to the renewable energy sector.
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