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Keywords
Agricultural land
Climate (campaign title)
Coal
Day
Farmers
Fields
KWCI (GPI)
Land pollution
Local population
Outdoors
Three people
Toxics (campaign title)
Coal Ash Polluted Soil in China
A farmer shows soil polluted by coal ash.
Ash chokes the sky above a coal ash dam owned by the Shentou Number 2 Power Plant, in Shuimotou village, Shuozhou, Shanxi province. With even the lightest wind, the tiny particles take flight, blotting out the sky like a thick sandstorm of ash, highly hazardous to people, as the fine particles are easily inhaled. Lu Youlong, a local who works nearby, said that contaminated water has seeped from the ash dam into village fish ponds, killing all the fish. Many fields have also developed puddles of alkaline water, making it impossible to grow crops.
Unique identifier:
GP026IB
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
13/06/2010
Locations:
Asia
,
China
,
Shanxi
Credit line:
© Zhao Gang / Greenpeace
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
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Coal Ash Disposal Documentation in China
The threats of coal combustion waste have been vastly underestimated in China due to regulatory loopholes that allow power companies to freely dump toxic coal ash in the environment, according to Greenpeace’s latest report, the True Cost of Coal – An Investigation into Coal Ash in China.
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