Oh, and by the way, DEP...
... here's the sort of thing that can happen when corrupt governments ignore their citizens' legitimate demands to protect them from toxic pollution:
China villagers attack polluting factories: paper
Tue Apr 11, 2006
HONG KONG (Reuters) - About 200 Chinese villagers, angry over pollution of their water supply, attacked three factories and a sewage treatment plant, a Hong Kong newspaper said on Wednesday.
The villagers in the eastern province of Fujian, some armed with iron bars, smashed windows and appliances on Saturday at the sewage plant, two leather factories and a South Korean-invested plastics factory, the South China Morning Post said. ..."
The story goes on to to note that protests against polluters are common in the Chinese countryside, "where the environment has all too often been sacrificed in the pursuit of profits."
Hmmm. Sound familiar?
China villagers attack polluting factories: paper
Tue Apr 11, 2006
HONG KONG (Reuters) - About 200 Chinese villagers, angry over pollution of their water supply, attacked three factories and a sewage treatment plant, a Hong Kong newspaper said on Wednesday.
The villagers in the eastern province of Fujian, some armed with iron bars, smashed windows and appliances on Saturday at the sewage plant, two leather factories and a South Korean-invested plastics factory, the South China Morning Post said. ..."
The story goes on to to note that protests against polluters are common in the Chinese countryside, "where the environment has all too often been sacrificed in the pursuit of profits."
Hmmm. Sound familiar?
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