China Shuts Solar Panel Factory After Antipollution Protests

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China Shuts Solar Panel Factory After Antipollution Protests
New York Times ^ | September 19, 2011 | ANDREW JACOBS


BEIJING — The Chinese authorities have suspended production at a solar panel factory after protests by residents who blame the plant for fouling the air and water...

Village residents have complained about what they called toxic smokestack emissions and about factory wastewater that they say has killed a large number of fish...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/w...ctory-after-anti-pollution-protests.html?_r=1

 

[Baruch Menachem]

If the Chinese find the place is too filthy to operate, it must be really very very very bad.

The protests, which lasted four days and drew as many as 500 people, followed a much larger demonstration last month in the northeastern city of Dalian against a plant that makes paraxylene, a highly toxic component of polyester products. Government officials promised to relocate the plant after 12,000 residents took to the street.

 

[Mr. H.]

We export jobs for this?