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Villager on Truck Transporting Ores in China
A local man from Huoyantu village climbs on a truck of a mining company to collect ores. In the last two decades lead and zinc mining in the Hunan province has polluted the soil and affected the health of the local population, who has seen no compensation from the government or the mining companies. Many villagers are on the road every day to ask for money to buy drinking water or, like this man, to venture on trucks transporting ores.
In original language:
村民冒着危险爬上运矿车捡矿石
开矿严重影响了火焰土村村民的生活。然而,多年来,采矿企业和政府未对村民进行丝毫补助。两年来,无论刮风下雨,每天路上都有二十多个村民拦车以讨要饮用水钱,每天每人能分到20余元。甚至有些村民冒着危险爬上运矿车捡些矿石,以补贴家用。
Unique identifier:
GP0STRBR9
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
06/08/2016
Locations:
Asia
,
China
,
East Asia
,
Hunan
Credit line:
© Qiu Bo / Greenpeace
Ranking:
★★★★★★ (B)
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Impacts of Toxic Waste from Heavy Metal Mining on Local Population in Hunan Province, China
A documentation showing the severe health impacts of heavy metal mines on the local population in Hunan province.
In May 2017, Greenpeace East Asia was informed about a case of severe soil pollution across five neighboring villages in Hunan Province, China. Hunan is China’s largest rice producer, but the province’s fertile rice paddies are interspersed with heavy metal mines, a combination that has led to dangerously high levels of soil pollution.
Yet available information about the extent of soil pollution in Hunan is limited.
Two decades of lead and zinc mining in these five villages has taken a major toll. The population of the villages, most of who are ethnically Miao, has experienced severe health impacts as a result of heavy metal exposure.
Eighty to 90 percent of the population in these five villages has kidney stones, and, each year, an average of 40 additional patients suffer from uremia, a complication of chronic kidney disease. In 2014, blood lead levels of all but one child tested in the villages exceeded the national standard.
In response, residents petitioned the local government and were seen blocking trucks heading to and from the mine to ask for compensation.
Greenpeace East Asia tested soil samples from the area. For the majority of samples, cadmium, arsenic, lead and zinc exceeded the national standard. Rice samples also tested above the national standard for chromium and lead, and, in several cases, arsenic. A more detailed breakdown of the results is available.
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