Ministries want to recycle coal power waste

Last update 15:47 | 06/10/2017

The Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Construction hold a conference about recycling ash and slag waste from coal power plants as construction materials for the Mekong Delta on October 3.

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Mai Xanh Company recycle waste as construction materials.

Vietnam has 21 coal power plants and it will have 57 plants by 2030 in accordance with the electric planning approved by the prime minister on March 18, 2016. Tiếp tục đọc “Ministries want to recycle coal power waste”

Bird watching in Thung Nham bird sanctuary

Last update 09:00 | 04/10/2017

VietNamNet Bridge – For those who love nature and adventurous bird watching trips, Thung Nham (Birds valley) in Ninh Binh is the best place for your experience while traveling to Hanoi. Besides watching birds, you can also explore the caves in the mountains as well as visit orchard of tropical fruits, including star fruit, mangoes, guavas and lychees.

Thung Nham (Nham Valley) eco-tourism zone is located in Hoa Lu District, 12km south of Ninh Binh City (100km from Hanoi), deep in the mountains and far from residential area. The 350ha park has been developed for tourism but still retains its natural beauty. Tiếp tục đọc “Bird watching in Thung Nham bird sanctuary”

Tourism firm fined for encroaching on Nha Trang Bay

Last update 15:46 | 06/10/2017

Champarama Travel Joint Stock Company have been fined VND70 million (USD3,200) for encroaching upon Nha Trang Bay in the central province of Khanh Hoa.

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Champarama Travel JS Company poured stone and soil into Nha Trang Bay to absorb over 17,500 square metres 

According to Khanh Hoa Province’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment, local authorities have decided to fine the company a total VND105 million (USD4,772) for its violations. Tiếp tục đọc “Tourism firm fined for encroaching on Nha Trang Bay”

Vietnam uses water cannon to disperse protest at global fashion brands supplier

 

FILE PHOTO: Picture shows a protesting camp set by villagers to block entrance of Hong Kong’s Pacific Crystal textiles factory after villagers accused the company of polluting local water in Hai Duong province, outside Hanoi, Vietnam July 13, 2017. REUTERS/Staff

HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnamese authorities on Monday used water cannon and electric rods to end a five-month long protest by villagers blockading a textile plant that serves global fashion brands, an official and a villager said.

The blockade represents another challenge to the communist nation’s government over industrial pollution woes, at a time when Vietnam seeks more foreign investors to keep up one of the highest rates of growth in Southeast Asia.

Hundreds of people from the northern province of Hai Duong have maintained watch in shifts day and night since April to stop work at the Pacific Crystal Textiles mill, operated by Hong Kong-based Pacific Textiles.

Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam uses water cannon to disperse protest at global fashion brands supplier”

New project to preserve ancient red pine trees in Quang Ninh

Last update 11:38 | 03/10/2017

The Prime Minister has approved a project to preserve ancient red pine trees at the Yen Tu National Forest in Uong Bi city of the northern province of Quang Ninh.

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The ancient red pine trees at the Yen Tu National Forest in Quang Ninh province (Photo: http://www.laodong.vn)

The project will be implemented at a cost of about 26.26 billion VND (1.16 million USD) in 2017-2021.

The funding will be used to care for the 237 living red pine trees, upgrade infrastructure of existing nursery gardens, cultivate seedlings of the species and collect red pine trees that grow in the wild. Tiếp tục đọc “New project to preserve ancient red pine trees in Quang Ninh”

Local protest against steel plant

Last update 14:03 | 04/10/2017

Local people in Quang Nam Province have gathered again and demanded to relocate the Vietnam-France Steel Plant due to pollution.

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Locals camp out the at the factory

The locals in Dien Nam Dong Ward, Dien Ban Town have put up tents and blocked the entrance to the plant for the past three months. Old people stay out during the day and young people sleep in the tents at night. They are determined to shut down the plant in the area.

According to the locals, since the factory went into operation five years ago, it has caused air and noise pollution. The local authorities promised to work out a solution but nothing has been done and the plant is still in operation. Tiếp tục đọc “Local protest against steel plant”

HCM City needs modern drainage: experts

Update: October, 04/2017 – 18:10 vietnamnews

A person walks through an inundated section of Nguyễn Hữu Cảnh Street in HCM City’s Bình Thạnh District. — VNA/VNS Mạnh Linh
Viet Nam News HCM CITY — HCM City and southern provinces are being battered by heavy rains in the first 10 days of October. The heavy rains, together with high river tides, will cause flooding in many places, the Southern Hydrometeorology Station has forecast.

The rains in fact has occured since the last day of September and flooded around 40 streets, badly affecting traffic across the city. Tiếp tục đọc “HCM City needs modern drainage: experts”

Experts fear as coal ash, slag mounting in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta

The lack of an effective treatment process has resulted in mountains of the coal-fired electric power plants’ byproducts collecting in the delta

By Tuoi Tre News

October 4, 2017, 13:59 GMT+7

​Experts fear as coal ash, slag mounting in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
The land where coal ash is dumped at a coal-fired power plant in south-central Vietnam.
Huge mountains of coal ash are looming large in southern Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, experts said at a conference on Tuesday.

Most coal-fired electric power plants produce coal ash in the form of fly and bottom ash, left after coal is combusted.

During the coal-burning process, fine powdery fly ash is carried up the smoke stack, while the coarser bottom ash, also known as slag, falls to the bottom. Tiếp tục đọc “Experts fear as coal ash, slag mounting in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta”

Di dân tự do vẫn nóng ở Tây Nguyên – 4 kỳ

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Di dân tự do vẫn nóng ở Tây Nguyên – Kỳ 1: Làng lập, rừng mất

25/09/2017 13:39 GMT+7

TTO – Đến thời điểm này, vấn đề người di cư tự do vẫn đè nặng lên các tỉnh Tây Nguyên với nhiều áp lực từ nạn phá rừng và các vấn đề xã hội.

Di dân tự do vẫn nóng ở Tây Nguyên - Kỳ 1: Làng lập, rừng mất - Ảnh 1.

Loại thuốc diệt cây cỏ cực độc được người di cư tự do dùng để “diệt rừng” – Ảnh: THÁI LỘC

Tiếp tục đọc “Di dân tự do vẫn nóng ở Tây Nguyên – 4 kỳ”

Monsanto lobbyists barred from European Parliament

Monsanto Lobbyists cannot enter the doors of the European Parliament until further notice. [Shutterstock]

euractive_Monsanto has paid for its refusal to appear before the European Parliament by losing its right to enter it, as MEPS have shut the door on their lobbyists until further notice. EURACTIV France reports.

The Conference of the Presidents – composed of the leaders of the European Parlaiment’s groups – decided on Thursday (28 September) to withdraw the right of the American company’s lobbysts to access the Parliament’s buildings.

“We have just officially refused access to the European Parliament to Monsanto lobbyists. This decision has been taken by the Conferenfe of the Presidents on 28 September,” explained Marc Tarabella, head of the Belgian Socialist Party delegation, in a press release.

Companies’ ‘zero deforestation’ pledges: everything you need to know

Corporations globally have made hundreds of commitments on deforestation. But what do these pledges really mean and why do scandals keep happening?

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Dead trees stand in a recently deforested section of the Amazon rainforest in Rondonia state, Brazil. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Whether it’s the destruction of rainforest shared by elephants and orangutans in Sumatra to produce palm oil; reports linking fast food giants to the burning of tropical forests in Brazil and Bolivia; or the hundreds of thousands of hectares of tree cover loss per year in West Africa – the world’s forests are being razed to sate global demand for produce such as palm oil, beef and cocoa. Tiếp tục đọc “Companies’ ‘zero deforestation’ pledges: everything you need to know”

Việt Nam intensifies efforts to reduce emission

vietnamnews Update: September, 29/2017 – 14:20

Forest rangers review statistics on land use. — VNA/VNS Photo
Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam aims to reduce emissions from deforestation and to increase its absorption of carbon dioxide (CO2) to 33 million tonnes.

The goal was identified during a conference on an emission reduction project in the country’s northern central region held in Hà Nội on Wednesday. Tiếp tục đọc “Việt Nam intensifies efforts to reduce emission”

Tăng cường năng lực cho các tổ chức xã hội, nghề nghiệp và địa phương về các giải pháp năng lượng tái tạo và sử dụng hiệu quả và tiết kiệm năng lượng

europa.eu_Ngày 21/8/2017, tại Hà Nội, Trung tâm Phát triển Sáng tạo Xanh (GreenID) tổ chức lễ khởi động dự án “Tăng cường năng lực cho các tổ chức xã hội, nghề nghiệp và địa phương về các giải pháp năng lượng tái tạo và sử dụng hiệu quả và tiết kiệm năng lượng” (viết tắt là E-Enhance). Sự kiện này được tổ chức cùng với lễ khai mạc “Tuần lễ năng lượng tái tạo”. Dự án do Liên minh châu Âu tài trợ từ nguồn vốn ODA không hoàn lại được GreenID và Viện các vấn đề môi trường độc lập của Đức (UfU) đồng thực hiện trong 4 năm, từ tháng 8 năm 2017 đến tháng 8 năm 2021, với tổng số tiền trị giá 685.326 ơ-rô. Trong đó, Liên minh châu Âu cam kết tài trợ không hoàn lại 600.000 ơ-rô, phần còn lại sẽ do GreenID và UfU đối ứng. Tiếp tục đọc “Tăng cường năng lực cho các tổ chức xã hội, nghề nghiệp và địa phương về các giải pháp năng lượng tái tạo và sử dụng hiệu quả và tiết kiệm năng lượng”

Phó Cục trưởng mất 385 triệu đồng: Đang đi thanh tra 30 doanh nghiệp

Dân trí Theo thông tin Dân trí ghi nhận được, ông Nguyễn Xuân Quang – Phó Cục trưởng Cục Kiểm soát hoạt động bảo vệ môi trường bị mất số tiền lớn khi đang đi thanh tra 30 doanh nghiệp trên địa bàn Long An theo kế hoạch. Thời điểm bị mất tiền, ông chỉ mới thanh tra 9 doanh nghiệp.

Theo kế hoạch thanh tra các cơ sở sản xuất kinh doanh của Tổng cục Môi trường, từ ngày 21/9 – 11/10, đoàn công tác do ông Nguyễn Xuân Quang sẽ tiến hành thanh kiểm tra 30 doanh nghiệp tại Long An. Đến ngày 27/9, đoàn đã kiểm tra được 9 doanh nghiệp tại huyện Đức Hoà.

Cùng với đoàn của Bộ Tài nguyên và Môi trường, nhiều cơ quan chức năng tại Long An cũng tháp tùng đoàn đến từng doanh nghiệp. Đây là kế hoạch kiểm tra công khai do Bộ Tài Nguyên và Môi trường chỉ đạo và sẽ có kết luận thanh tra sau 45 ngày.

Theo thông tin từ các cơ quan ban ngành tỉnh Long An, những doanh nghiệp nằm trong danh sách bị thanh tra đợt này có dấu hiệu vi phạm về vệ sinh môi trường.

Japan kills 177 whales in Pacific campaign: Government

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A Japanese whaling ship leaves the port of Shimonoseki in December 2015. (Photo: AFP/Jiji Press)

TOKYO: Japan said on Tuesday (Sep 26) it killed 177 whales off its northeast coast in an annual hunt that sparks anger among animal rights activists and others.

Three ships which left port in June returned with 43 minke whales and 134 sei whales, the number stipulated beforehand, according to the country’s fisheries agency. Tiếp tục đọc “Japan kills 177 whales in Pacific campaign: Government”