VietNamNet
Bridge – The representative of the
Institute for Natural Resources and the Environment, a unit of the HCM City
National University, which is in charge of calculating the damages caused by
Sonadezi Long Thanh waste water discharging, has announced that it would not
continue undertaking the work.
The
institute’s representative confirmed the news with Saigon Tiep Thi’s reporters
on the afternoon of May 29. Prior to that, the institute was assigned by the
Dong Nai provincial People’s Committee to calculate the plant and livestock
toll in Sonadezi Long Thanh case.
He said
that the plant and livestock toll has not been only caused by the waste water
from Sonadezi Long Thanh, but also by other factors, including the flood,
epidemics and husbandry techniques. However, it is very difficult to calculate
the damages caused by different factors separately.
“Scientifically,
we can do that. But this would take five years to undertake necessary surveys
before making conclusion. It would take time, while local residents have got
impatient and want to know the result and the compensation level,” he
explained.
Vo Van
Chanh, Deputy Director of the Dong Nai provincial Department for Natural
Resources and the Environment, said the department has not received the
information from the institute. However, he said, if even a scientific center
cannot define the toll caused by Sonadezi Long Thanh, there is only one choice
that involved parties would sit together to discuss about the compensation
levels.
On
August 4, 2011, Sonadezi Long Thanh was caught red-handed by C49, the
environment police department discharging untreated waste water to the Ba Cheo
canal in Tam An commune, Long Thanh district of Dong Nai province.
The
untreated waste water discharging, carried out for a long time, has caused
serious pollution to the environment, while affecting the people’s health,
harming the land and causing economic losses to local households.
After
relevant agencies concluded that the environment pollution was caused by
Sonadezi Long Thanh, the company and the local authorities many times promised
to work together on the measures to compensate local residents.
However,
the promises have not been fulfilled. Meanwhile, the work of repairing the
damages has been going very slowly, thus putting local households in distress.
Some
days ago, the Dong Nai provincial Party Committee’s Propaganda Division sent a
document to press agencies, requesting the agencies, when reporting the waste
water discharging, “not to mention Sonadezi Corporation and Do Thi Thu Hang –
President and General Director of Sonadezi, National Assembly’s Deputy.” The
document explained that the subject that caused the pollution is the
concentrated waste water treatment plant in Long Thanh Industrial Zone,
belonging to Sonadezi Long Thanh Joint Stock Company, i.e. it is just one of
the 23 subsidiaries of Sonadezi Corporation.
The
document released by the provincial party committee is considered as an instruction.
However, press agencies find the instruction “abnormal” and “funny,” because
the releasing of the document does not fall within the competence of the party
committee, and more importantly, it does not come in line with the Journalist
Law.
The
information, right after hitting the public, has raised a strong opposition
from the public. The Communist Party’s resolutions and the statements by high
ranking party’s leaders recently always mention the joint liability of the
heads of enterprises and agencies in the misconducts of their officers and
workers. Therefore, as a head of Sonadezi, Hang has to take responsibility for
the environment pollution. Hang is also a National Assembly’s deputy;
therefore, she should not turn a deaf ear to Dong Nai’s people, who voted for
her.
Source:
SGTT
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