Central Environmental Protection Supervision – long-term disorderly mining of stone mines in Acheng District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, causing prominent ecological environment damage

In December 2021, the supervisor of the first ecological and environmental protection supervision group of the central government found that many open-pit stone mines in Acheng District of Harbin had been mined disorderly for a long time, the problem of deforestation was prominent, and the ecological restoration was lagging behind, causing extensive damage to the regional ecological environment.
1、 Basic information
Acheng District is located in the southeast suburb of Harbin. There are 55 open-pit quarrying enterprises in production. The annual mining scale of mining right license is nearly 20 million cubic meters. According to the statistics of local natural resources department, the annual mining volume is about 10 million cubic meters, accounting for more than half of the mining volume of the whole province. There are also 176 abandoned mines left over by history in this area, occupying a land area of 1075.79 hectares.
2、 Main problems
(1) There are widespread violations of cross-border mining
The mineral resources law clearly stipulates that mining beyond the approved mining area shall not be allowed. The inspector found that since 2016, all 55 open-pit quarrying enterprises in Acheng District have violated the law of cross-border mining. In 2016, Shuangli quarrying company mined up to 1243800 cubic meters across the border. From 2016 to 2020, Donghui quarrying company only mined 22400 cubic meters within the approved mining area, but the cross-border mining reached 653200 cubic meters.
Pingshan building materials Co., Ltd. was punished eight times for cross-border mining from 2016 to 2019, and the cross-border mining volume reached 449200 cubic meters. Shanlin building materials company was punished four times for cross-border mining from 2016 to 2019, with a cross-border mining volume of more than 200000 cubic meters, and another 10000 cubic meters in September 2021.

For the illegal acts of cross-border mining by open-pit quarrying enterprises, the local regulatory authorities failed to enforce the law and perform their responsibilities, but simply punished them; For serious illegal enterprises, selective law enforcement has only transferred some cases to the public security organ for handling, and many illegal enterprises have even been approved to extend or expand mining rights for many times.
The bridge quarrying company has been investigated and punished for illegal deforestation and mining for many times. The law enforcement department ordered it to restore afforestation at the original site. After afforestation and greening, the company destroyed nearly 4 mu of restored forest land in 2020 for mining. It knowingly committed the crime and never changed after repeated education.
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Fig. 2 on October 28, 2021, it was found that an abandoned mine in Hongxing Township, Acheng District, Harbin had not been ecologically restored
(3) The problem of regional environmental pollution is prominent
The inspector found that the crushing, screening and transmission processes of open-air quarrying enterprises in Acheng District were not sealed or incomplete, sand and gravel aggregates were stacked in the open air, and dust suppression measures such as spraying, watering and covering were not implemented. The preliminary dark investigation found that many quarrying enterprises such as chengshilei quarrying company had chaotic management and dusty, and a large amount of dust accumulated on the surrounding roads and trees, which was strongly reflected by the masses.
In 2020, according to the list of problems reported by Acheng District, 55 open-pit quarrying enterprises did not find violations of laws and regulations on ecological and environmental protection and did not need to be rectified, which was inconsistent with the actual situation that a large number of quarrying enterprises did not build pollution control facilities, extensive environmental management and serious dust pollution, and the rectification work was perfunctory.
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Fig. 3 on August 20, 2021, the preliminary dark investigation found that many quarrying enterprises such as chengshilei quarrying company in Acheng District, Harbin city had serious dust pollution, and a large amount of dust accumulated on surrounding roads and trees
3、 Cause analysis
Following the extensive development inertia, Acheng District of Harbin tacitly connives at the long-standing illegal acts of quarrying enterprises, fears the difficulties of mine ecological restoration and turns a blind eye to the problem of ecological damage. The relevant departments at the urban level have been ineffective in supervision for a long time, and the problem of dereliction of duty and responsibility is prominent.
The supervision team will further investigate and verify the relevant situation and do a good job of follow-up supervision as required.

 


Post time: Jan-19-2022

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