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Hanoi resumes use of water trucks to wash away dust
Hanoi mayor Nguyen Duc Chung has asked local bodies to bring back water trucks to wash the streets with a view to reducing air pollution nearly three years after their suspension, VnExpress reported.
Quarry blasts wreck walls, doors
VietNamNet Bridge – Residents living near cement plants in central Thua Thien- Hue and Quang Binh provinces have complained about air and noise pollution that continually affects their lives. Dust from the mining fills the air
Suspended public works leave HCM City residents in limbo
HCM City authorities said they have cancelled the licences of hundreds of suspended public projects that have affected the lives of the public, but many people said a number of projects remain “suspended” and continue to affect
British company wants to treat dust in ‘steel valley’
VietNamNet Bridge - Zincox Resources Plc from the UK plans to spend $115 million to build a plant to treat the dust produced by electric arc furnaces from the steel mills in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province.
Coal-run thermal power plants and the “grey sludge threat”
VietNamNet Bridge - Scientists have issued warnings about the “grey sludge threat” at coal-run thermal power plants which could cause an environmental disaster.
Environmental polluters sprouting faster
Over a period of ten years, more than 300 businesses responsible for polluting the environment have been taken to task, but just as fast upto 1,000 new ones have sprung up.
The black industrial zones in Long An province
VietNamNet Bridge – Rice fields are getting yellow and ragged in Duc Hoa district of Long An province, because they have been irrigated with the polluted waste water discharged from the industrial zones in the area.
