The inspection team of the Ministry of Environmental Protection went to Shijiazhuang: twenty or thirty centimeters of dust accumulated in lime plant

Daily Economic News reporter Li Biao Daily Economic News editor Chen Xu

Last week, heavy air pollution occurred in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and surrounding areas. Beijing and other places successively started yellow warning of heavy air pollution on the 3rd and upgraded to orange warning. However, it was not until 22:00 on April 6 that Shijiazhuang upgraded to Class II emergency response of heavy pollution weather on the basis of class III emergency response of heavy pollution weather.

The reporter of “Daily Economic News” learned from the Ministry of Environmental Protection that on April 6, Zhao Yingmin, vice minister of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, arrived in Shijiazhuang to carry out the supervision of heavily polluted weather, and the “small scattered pollution” Enterprise Group and gas-related enterprises were supervised. The inspection found that a large number of “small scattered pollution” enterprise groups such as ceramics and lime factories had outstanding environmental problems.

Among them, the inspection team found that a large number of illegal limestone processing enterprises around Xibaipo expressway in Pingshan County were seriously polluted by dust. Most lime processing enterprises in some places have not been approved and have been illegally produced for a long time, causing serious ecological damage and serious pollution to the surrounding environment.

Zhao Yingmin said that for such an illegal “small scattered pollution” enterprise, which is strongly reflected by the masses, one company should be found and one company should be resolutely banned. If the deadline has not been banned, the relevant responsible person should be dealt with seriously to effectively curb illegal sewage discharge.

Ma Jun, director of the public environment research center, told the reporter of Daily Economic News that there were still many “small scattered pollution” enterprises in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei and surrounding areas, although the emissions of these enterprises were not large, however, due to the poor control of discharged pollutants, the total pollutant emissions are still relatively large, which has a great impact on the local atmospheric environment.

Long-term illegal production by enterprises without approval

According to the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Shijiazhuang’s Gaoyi County ceramic production accounts for nearly half of Hebei’s total production capacity, and the public response to pollution problems in this industry has been very strong.

When the inspection team conducted a surprise inspection on the industrial zone of the ancient city of Fu village in Gaoyi County, it found that the problem of abnormal operation of the pollution control facilities of ceramic enterprises in Gaoyi County was outstanding, and the online monitoring facilities were not installed in the desulfurization facilities of 25 ceramic enterprises’ kilns.

When inspecting the gas generator of a ceramic enterprise in Shijiazhuang, the inspection team found that a large amount of coal tar discharged, such as asphalt, had dyed the entire roof; Production workshop, material yard, the dust control facilities in key links such as granulation tower are simple and crude, and the management is extensive, which cannot achieve the standard emission. The dust inside and outside the factory is filled, and the ground is covered with a thick layer of white dust. In the workshop of the enterprise, inspectors found that the enterprise had gates on both the main flue and the abandoned chimney, and was suspected of bypassing the kiln waste gas.

It is understood that for the outstanding problems existing in Gaoyi ceramic industry, the inspection team has fed back the problems found by the inspection to the local government and instructed the local government to rectify them immediately. Enterprises that fail to meet the emission standards will all stop production.

Zhao Yingmin pointed out that the ceramic industry must be dealt with heavily in the Gaoyi county, and the centralized gas supply measures in the industrial park should be promoted as soon as possible to achieve Unified Gas Supply coverage in the ceramic industry and ensure that enterprises can continuously and stably meet the emission standards. The waste gas of the kiln must be treated by the desulfurization facilities to meet the standards before it can be discharged, and the flue gas online monitoring facilities are installed to monitor the pollutant emission for 24 hours.

At the same time, the inspection team found more than ten lime production enterprises in the mountains near baitappo village and jiachhuang village in donghuishe, Pingshan county. It is understood that most of the above lime processing enterprises have not been approved and have been illegally produced for a long time, causing serious ecological damage and serious pollution to the surrounding environment.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection said that although the enterprise did not produce during the inspection, it was still in production according to workers’ reports, but it just stopped in recent days.

The inspectors walked into Xingkai Ash factory in Pingshan county, and the lime kiln was in the state of shutdown. The thick dust accumulated in the factory was 20 to 30cm thick. When they walked through the place, the dust brought by it made people unable to open their eyes. The inspection team asked the local government to resolutely ban these illegal enterprises. Zhao Yingmin said that for such an illegal “small scattered pollution” enterprise, which is strongly reflected by the masses, one company should be found and one company should be resolutely banned.

Zhao Yingmin stressed that these illegal enterprises exist for a long time, which seriously endanger the health and environmental safety of the masses and severely crack down on such environmental violations. If the deadline has not been banned, the relevant responsible person should be dealt with seriously to effectively curb illegal sewage discharge.

Ban “small scattered pollution” Enterprise set schedule

In fact, the pollution problem of “small scattered pollution” enterprises not only exists in Shijiazhuang, but also is a common environmental problem in many Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and surrounding areas.

In response to the heavy air pollution process, vice minister Zhao Yingmin led the team to supervise Anyang, Baoding, Tianjin, Langfang, Shijiazhuang and other cities one after another, and found out the pollution problem of “small scattered pollution” enterprises without exception. At the same time, judging from the supervision of the inspection team of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the pollution problem of “small scattered pollution” enterprises is more prominent.

On January this year, Chen Jining, minister of environmental protection, pointed out at a press conference on smog that PM2.5 in Tongzhou, Beijing decreased by 30% last year, which was rooted in the governance of “small scattered pollution” enterprises. The Environmental Protection Department will rely on scientific and technological means and grid supervision to plus-sized the efforts to investigate and rectify “small scattered pollution” enterprises.

In March, 2017, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, together with the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and surrounding areas Air Pollution Prevention and Control Cooperation team and relevant units, officially issued the work plan for the prevention and control of air pollution in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and surrounding areas in 2017, the document clearly points out in the main tasks that all regions will complete the investigation work before the end of March and establish management ledgers. Beijing, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Tangshan, Langfang, Baoding, Cangzhou, Hengshui, Xingtai, Handan, Zhengzhou, Anyang, Jiaozuo and other cities, before the end of October, the illegal “small scattered pollution” enterprises were basically banned according to law; More than half of other cities were banned before the end of October.

It is worth noting that recently, 224 people who participated in the first round of enhanced supervision on air pollution prevention and control will go to the “2+26” cities to comprehensively carry out the intensified supervision work, each city will arrange 25 rounds of inspections throughout the year. One of the key tasks of supervision is the investigation and ban of “small scattered pollution” enterprises.

Ma Jun believes that there are indeed many “small scattered pollution” enterprises in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei and surrounding areas, especially in the vast counties and villages in this area, some “small scattered and dirty” enterprises in some places are even more concentrated. Even if there is no one in Beijing urban area, there are still some such enterprises in the suburbs of Beijing.

“The number of small scattered enterprises is large, and basically they are concentrated in relatively outlying areas. The environmental management and law enforcement in these areas are relatively weak. At the same time, these enterprises also involve some livelihood issues, it is also difficult to ban.” Ma Jun said.

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Daily Economic News reporter Li Biao Daily Economic News editor Chen Xu last week, heavy air pollution occurred in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and surrounding areas, beijing and other places started yellow warning of heavy air pollution on the 3rd and upgraded it to orange warning. However, until April 6