Polluted Agricultural Land in China

Tian Jiaxing (not his real name) planted 30 mu of corn. This year at the beginning of spring he started dredging the waste water. He said that where the waste water was flowing all the trees and crops had died. The water was very toxic. The waste water was flowing onto the banks of the Yellow River from the Wusitai Industrial Park in Inner Mongolia. The industrial park is only about 1 km from the Yellow River.

Unique identifier: GP0STORJZ

Type: Image

Shoot date: 30/03/2014

Locations: Asia, China, Inner Mongolia

Credit line: © Lu Guang / Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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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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