Resumen de Will China see the blue skies?
In this month's comment Editor Siobhan Lismore-Scott discusses whether or not China is taking its pledge to be a more environmentally-friendly miner seriously and outlines opportunities in ceramics markets and, ahead of this month's Indaba meeting, in Africa.
Graphite dust has contributed to severe air and water pollution in Luobei county and Jixi city, creating what is being described as'graphite rain'. This has sparked complaints from both residents and business owners, thrusting the province, which produced 43% of the world's 420,000 tpa flake graphite in 2012, into the spotlight.E "Everyone is on edge when Ministry of Environmental Protection or local bureau inspections are underway," Ming writes: "It was an open secret that when the monitors came we would cut working to get the figures up to standard. What's more, the online monitoring equipment they installed could be fooled - the total emission figures only covered some outlets, others were not monitored," he added.
