In order to temporarily meet the water quality standards, the water department diluted the sewage, and even said in the report that the river was "crystal clear and fish swarmed"; The industrial park illegally occupies thousands of acres of land in national nature reserves, but it ignores the central rectification requirements within two years and has not been relocated or managed; According to the report materials, the environmental protection "three noes" chicken farm has been cleared by itself, but the inspection team found that the chicken farm has not been demolished, and tens of thousands of chickens have been raised … …
Recently, the central environmental protection inspector’s "looking back" work has ended, and some localities and enterprises have exposed formalism and bureaucratic problems in the field of ecological and environmental protection, such as "superficial rectification", "pretend rectification" and "perfunctory rectification". In the process, the reporter also followed the inspector group to experience all kinds of false rectification chaos.
False "three tricks" to deal with environmental protection inspectors
The reporter followed the on-site inspectors of the Central Environmental Protection Inspector Group in Guangdong and Ningxia and found that some departments or enterprises ignored the rectification requirements and frequently resorted to various tricks to cope with the inspection.
— — Deal with it superficially and cram for it temporarily. Lanshui River, Haizai Dapaikeng, Longli Dapaikeng and Huangkeng River are rivers that have been incorporated into the remediation of black and odorous water bodies in Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province. The materials submitted by the local government show that the water quality monitoring of the four rivers has reached the requirements, and the public comment on the satisfaction rate is 96%. It also vividly describes these rivers as "crystal clear and fish swarms".
However, when the inspector team came to Haipai Dapaikeng to "look back", they found that residents in nearby communities complained that the river was far from reaching the standard of "neither black nor smelly". It turns out that in order to finish the task on time and meet the standards temporarily, the local authorities have neither intercepted nor dredged, but adopted emergency measures — — The water system is connected, that is, water diversion and dilution.
Recently, the reporter visited Dapaikeng in Haizi on the spot. Many residents in the nearby Wuzhou Century City complained that they could smell the bad smell when they lived above the tenth floor. "An inspector, the renovation project immediately started. How good it would be to work hard in peacetime. "
The monitoring data show that the ammonia nitrogen concentration of the water quality in this section reaches 23 mg/L, far exceeding the standard of severe black odor. After the Central Environmental Protection Inspector Group reported the relevant situation to Guangdong, six responsible persons were put on file for review and investigation.
— — Take chances and stay put. The reporter followed the Central Environmental Protection Inspector Group into the demonstration zone of recycling economy of renewable resources in lingwu city, Ningxia, and found that the clothes of the staff were covered with oil stains and the colors were not clear, and patches of oil stains penetrated into the soil. More importantly, in 2016, the park was found by the Central Environmental Protection Inspector Group to occupy 1,293 mu of the experimental area of Baijitan National Nature Reserve, but within two years, the park did not see any signs of land clearance and pollution remediation.
During the on-site inspection, the inspector group asked the responsible persons in lingwu city what they had done in the past two years, and they said that they had "hoped that the nature reserve would be demarcated again and the industrial park would be transferred out of the reserve".
— — The rectification is constant and the pollution is constant. Within a few hours of "looking back" when the Central Environmental Protection Inspector Group was stationed in Ningxia, it received a number of report calls about the malodorous gas emitted by Tairui Pharmaceutical in Yongning County, Yinchuan City. In the afternoon, the inspector group came to the enterprise to inspect and found that although the enterprise had done some work in odor control, there was no substantial deodorization measure at the slag outlet of the mushroom residue.
Problems behind false rectification
Behind the false rectification of departments and enterprises, it reflects the lack of environmental awareness of enterprises, the lack of pressure transmission from local governments, and the historical debts of local environmental protection infrastructure.
— — Some enterprises lack awareness of environmental protection, and the illegal cost of environmental protection is low. When inspecting a "three noes" chicken farm in Taimei Town, Boluo County, Huizhou City, Guangdong Province, the inspector team found that the chicken farm, which covers an area of 11 mu and has a construction area of about 3,000 square meters, had its wastewater discharged directly into the ground through a soil seepage pit. When the inspector asked why the bottom of the seepage pit was not hardened and how to solve the problem of direct infiltration of wastewater into the ground, the person in charge of the chicken farm replied confidently, "If it is hardened, how can my wastewater penetrate into the ground?" The inspector group was shocked by the lack of environmental awareness of business leaders.
Jin Hui, an associate professor at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, said that some enterprises are willing to sacrifice the environment in order to maximize profits. Sometimes, although the environmental protection department fines the enterprise, compared with the environmental protection funds that the enterprise should have invested for many years, the fine can be described as "nine Niu Yi cents" and cannot play a deterrent role.
— — The transmission of local responsibility pressure is not in place, and the attitude of "hitting hard" is not firm. A cadre in a city in Guangdong Province admitted that the accountability mechanism for eco-environmental dereliction of duty in the city was not perfect enough. Although a series of plans for water pollution prevention and air pollution prevention and control have been issued at the city level, the pressure of environmental responsibility has not been effectively transmitted to various environmental protection departments and town offices at the county level, and the ecological environmental protection work has been "hot on the top and cold on the bottom".
The staff of Taimei Town Government said that they once wanted to dismantle this chicken farm, but it has been difficult to dismantle it because of the threat and obstruction of evil forces. According to the report of the Central Environmental Protection Inspector Group, lingwu city also showed an attitude of "no responsibility, no hard work" in the process of rectification of the renewable resources circular economy demonstration zone. In the case that the substantive rectification work was basically not carried out, the rectification task was cancelled in December 2017 without authorization.
— — There are many local environmental protection debts, imperfect environmental infrastructure and slow progress. The reporter learned that the construction of sewage pipe network in Guangdong is seriously in arrears, and even the pipe network projects planned in the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" have not been completed in some cities.
Jin Hui said that the central environmental protection inspector’s "looking back" revealed that some cities did not pay enough attention to environmental protection in the past planning, especially the supporting planning of environmental protection facilities, which led to the difficulty in site selection of some environmental protection facilities and the progress was slower than the target. Some localities and enterprises achieved "data standards" through false rectification and superficial rectification.
We should strengthen accountability and improve urban planning.
The experts interviewed said that the central environmental protection inspector is a means, not an end. Whether the ecological environment protection can be implemented depends on leading cadres. Leading cadres who are found to have outstanding problems and are responsible for causing damage to the ecological environment must be seriously held accountable.
"We should effectively transmit the pressure of environmental protection through inspectors, enhance the sense of responsibility, and constantly promote the construction of a long-term mechanism for ecological environmental protection while solving outstanding environmental problems, so that environmental protection can truly become the norm in the work of local governments." Li Lusheng, a researcher at Ningxia Academy of Social Sciences, said.
Jin Hui believes that local governments and environmental protection departments, under the framework of striving to achieve the national and provincial ecological environment quality objectives, should combine the regional master plan with the environmental planning, use the concept of sustainable development as a guide in the ecological environment planning, reasonably evaluate the local economic and social development level and the phased goals to be achieved in environmental quality, and truly solve the ecological environment problems, avoiding the practice of cramming and treating both the symptoms and the root causes.
In addition, Jin Hui also suggested that the urban planning scheme should be further improved, and the urban planning layout should be considered more from the perspective of ecological environment. He said that although there was a special chapter on environmental protection in the previous urban master plan, it was mainly discussed from the aspects of setting standards, and the space was short. However, in fact, the construction and management of many environmental protection facilities need to be considered and laid out in advance in the planning stage, so as to ensure the construction land of environmental protection facilities and accelerate the progress of environmental protection facilities.
