— China is increasingly asking
its citizens to blow the whistle
on industrial polluters.
That's in stark contrast to two years
ago, when authorities sought to
cover up a major chemical spillage.
When the 9 million residents of
Harbin, in northeast China, awoke
to dry taps in the winter of 1995,
the last thing they were aware of
was that the Songhua river was
heavily polluted by a severe chemical
spill of carcinogenic benzene.
The Songhua river, stretching
1,927 kilometers across northeast
China into Russia's Amur River,
is the lifeblood of the provinces
of Jilin and Heliongjiang, which in
winter months drop to temperatures of-30 degrees Celsius...
China Recruits WhistleBlowers to Fight Pollution
17 Sep 2007 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BEIJING, China
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