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Keywords
Climate (campaign title)
Coal
Day
Desertification
Drought
Dry
East Asian ethnicities
Fuel
Grass
Herders
Herds
KWCI (GPI)
Men
One person
Outdoors
People
Rural scenes
Sheep
Shenhua Group
Toxics (campaign title)
Victims
Sheep Herder in Inner Mongolia
64 year old herder Li Lu is the owner of 40 sheep and 1 hectare of corn field. He lives next to the mouth of a water well in an area affected by severe desertification. Ten years ago, he had 80 sheep, but now with not enough grass to feed them, he had to decrease their number. Haolebaoji, Ordos, Inner Mongolia. For ten years, the Chinese state-run organisation Shenhua Group, has been exploiting water resources at a shocking scale from the Ordos grasslands to use in its coal-to-liquid project (a process for producing liquid fuel from coal) and illegally dumping toxic industrial waste water. Shenhua's operations have sparked social unrest and caused severe ecological damage including desertification, impacting farmers and herders who are facing reduced water supplies in what was once an abundant farming area.
Unique identifier:
GP04OWO
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
27/04/2013
Locations:
Asia
,
China
,
Inner Mongolia
,
Ordos
Credit line:
© Qiu Bo / Greenpeace
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
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Shenhua Coal-to-Liquid Impacts in Inner Mongolia
A collection of images showing a devastated land and the effects of water shortage on people in the Ordos grasslands in Inner Mongolia. For ten years, the Chinese state-run organisation Shenhua Group, the world's biggest coal producer by volume, has sucked this land dry, exploiting water resources at a shocking scale from these beautiful grasslands to use in its coal-to-liquid project (also known as coal liquefaction, a process for producing liquid fuels from coal) and illegally dumping toxic industrial waste water. Shenhua's operations have sparked social unrest and caused severe ecological damage including desertification, impacting farmers and herders who are facing reduced water supplies in what was once an abundant farming area.
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