Conversations on Vietnam Development
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| The land where coal ash is dumped at a coal-fired power plant in south-central Vietnam. |
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”
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Di dân tự do vẫn nóng ở Tây Nguyên – Kỳ 1: Làng lập, rừng mất
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.
Loại thuốc diệt cây cỏ cực độc được người di cư tự do dùng để “diệt rừng” – Ảnh: THÁI LỘC
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”
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| Forest rangers review statistics on land use. — VNA/VNS Photo |
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”
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”
The Mekong Delta is a land carpeted in endless shades of greens, a magical water world that is being destroyed by climate change and environmental pollution, says the Vietnam Environment Administration.
Some 20 million people call the Mekong Delta home, and 60 million are dependent on the natural environment of river system for their livelihoods, says the Environment Administration. Tiếp tục đọc “How environmental pollution is ruining the Mekong Delta”
By Tuoi Tre News
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| An officer points at the part of a pine tree where a hole was drilled to add herbicide. The incident has happened since late June in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong. Photo: Tuoi Tre |
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| Workers at Thủ Đức Water Company check the operation system. In addition to clean water supplied by companies like this, people in many residential areas use groundwater for their daily activities due to a shortage of tap water. — VNA/VNS Photo Ngọc Hà |
Viet Nam News HCM CITY — With warnings about the ill effects of groundwater on users’ health and possible land subsidence due to overexploitation of water, 10 years ago HCM City authorities had adopted policies to reduce the use of groundwater.- Tiếp tục đọc “Groundwater use continues in HCM City”
vietnamnews Update: September, 19/2017 – 15:14
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| Untreated waste water from the Triều Khúc Village, which specialises in recycling plastic in Thanh Trì District’s Tân Triều Commune, is discharged directly into the ponds and canals, polluting the water sources and emitting a foul smell. – VNA/VNS Photo Minh Nghĩa |
Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — As many as 19 of the 43 industrial clusters in the capital city of Hà Nội do not have waste water treatment plants, an inspection by the municipal People’s Council has found. Tiếp tục đọc “Half of industrial clusters in Hà Nội lack waste treatment plant”
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| Residents in central Quảng Trị Province’s Triệu An Commune use a steel net to block trucks carrying seafood to a seafood processing company. – Photo dantri.com.vn |
The action is a protest against pollution and horrible smells coming from the company’s premises, the online Dân trí newspaper reported. Tiếp tục đọc “Quảng Trị residents block seafood smells”
globalwitness – Press release / Oct. 26, 2015
Rubber giant Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG) has been expelled from the world’s leading forest certification body, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), following an investigation into illegal land and forest clearance in Cambodia. Responding to a complaint submitted by Global Witness last November, the FSC found that the state-owned company had illegally destroyed at least 50,000 hectares of forest for its rubber plantations in Cambodia alone, including wildlife sanctuaries and protected areas.
“The FSC investigation provides further evidence that VRG has destroyed some of South East Asia’s most important remaining forests, with indigenous communities forcibly displaced in the process, and is forcibly taking land from its rightful owners and destroying livelihoods – with untold and irreversible effects,” said Patrick Alley, a Founding Director of Global Witness. “The FSC has done the right thing by dropping them from its certification scheme. Now VRG needs to urgently take action to address the damage it has caused.” Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam Rubber Group stripped of Forest Stewardship Council certification for forest destruction, illegal land grabs and human rights abuses”
VietNamNet Bridge – The massive mineral exploitation at four sites in Dong Hy district in Thai Nguyen province has led to serious consequences: the houses of 133 families have been affected by subsidence and cracking, and locals do not have water for daily life.
A pit belonging to Thai Nguyen Black Metallurgical JSC is located in a residential quarter.
Tiếp tục đọc “Thai Nguyen: uncontrolled mineral exploitation pushes locals to the wall”
internationalrivers – The Son La Hydropower Project is the largest and most complex dam project ever built in Vietnam. The project will displace more than 91,000 ethnic minority people, requiring the largest resettlement in Vietnam’s history. Most of these people will be moved between 50 to 100 kilometers away from their current homes and without access to the Da River—a source of livelihood for most of them.
The affected people include ten different ethnic groups, of which the Thai people comprise the majority. These people live mainly by the river and practice wet rice cultivation. One of the major concerns is a shortage of arable land for resettling the tens of thousands of displaced people. Tiếp tục đọc “Son La Dam”
Các dự án này bao gồm các đập thủy điện lớn ở Việt Nam và Campuchia, các nhà máy nhiệt điện than ô nhiễm, các dự án khai thác mỏ ở Philippin, Việt Nam và Myanma, và thâu tóm các vùng đất công nông nghiệp khổng lồ ở Campuchia và Lào.
Hàng chục các dự án gây thiệt hại và mạo hiểm cao ở Đông Nam Á đã nhận được các khoản tài trợ ẩn từ Nhóm Ngân hàng Thế giới, một cuộc điều tra đang được tiến hành bởi Tổ chức Inclusive Development International (IDI) đã tiết lộ điều này. Tập đoàn Tài chính Quốc tế (IFC), một nhánh tư nhân của Ngân hàng Thế giới, đang bí mật chuyển tiền đến các dự án này thông qua các tổ chức tài chính trung gian có lợi nhuận, như các ngân hàng thương mại hay các quỹ đầu tư tư nhân.
Những công ty là khách hàng trong lĩnh vực tài chính của IFC đã tài trợ cho một số dự án có tính huỷ hoại lớn nhất trong khu vực, trái ngược với các Tiêu chuẩn thực thi cũng như hướng dẫn về xã hội và môi trường của tổ chức này.
Các dự án này bao gồm các đập thủy điện lớn ở Việt Nam và Campuchia, các nhà máy nhiệt điện than ô nhiễm, các dự án khai thác mỏ ở Philippin, Việt Nam và Myanma, và thâu tóm các vùng đất công nông nghiệp khổng lồ ở Campuchia và Lào.
Tiếp tục đọc “Ngoài tầm kiểm soát: Lộ ra các khoản đầu tư quá bất cẩn của Ngân hàng thế giới cho các công ty ở Đông Nam Á”
A methane gas treatment plant will produce electricity from the decomposing garbage
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| Garbage are dumped on a street in Hanoi. |
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