The industry is unscrupulous and rotten, the ballast of Qishan farmland cannot be removed, and the residents roar angrily: there is no end to the pain!

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After nearly seven years of delay, the dispute over "China Steel Converter Stone (hereinafter referred to as" furnace ballast ") illegally buried agricultural land in Dalinli, Qishan District, Kaohsiung City, made significant progress on March 21 this year. The Environmental Protection Agency has approved the clean-up plan of ten thousand companies, which is expected to clear the largest amount of nearly one million tons of farmland ballast in history within three years. However, on the 22nd of this month, the Environmental Protection Agency abolished the clean-up plan on the grounds that ten thousand companies were unable to clean up, and immediately issued a press release the next day, pointing out that according to Article 30 of the waste cleaning Law, Zoomlion is the source of production and should be responsible for cleaning up.

On October 26, Zoomlion issued a press release in response, insisting that "converter stone is a legally registered product, and Zoomlion is not the perpetrator of this case and the person responsible for the removal." In response, the Environmental Protection Bureau quickly issued a press release with strong wording: "Zhonglian is the producer of these converter stone ingredients. Since the ten thousand companies they commissioned have misplaced and misused backfilling to farmland, Zhonglian should be jointly and severally responsible for cleaning up and improving the environment."

After nearly seven years of burial, the ballast finally saw the light of day for the first time, but the residents did not expect that the clean-up plan was still interrupted. (photo / Li Huiyi) residents win but the government is teased to live and work in peace and contentment without end.

In May 2013, residents in Dalin noticed that trucks suddenly appeared in the village, dumping unidentified waste into a large pit of 5.2 hectares of farmland with a depth of 22 meters. After verification, residents found that these were landlord Huang Yinxiang (person in charge of Jianfa construction) and Dai Wenqing, head of Wanda material Technology Company, who purchased from Zhonglian Resources from the steelmaking process of China Iron and Steel Company.

"they have been backfilling until June and July 2014, filling up the whole piece of farmland for more than a year." When I think about it, Zheng Miaozhen is still very angry.

Zheng Miaozhen is the president of the anti-waste furnace ballast self-rescue association in Da Lin. She takes the lead every time there are protests and representations, and she has been beaten because of this case. Now, seeing the "empty dialogue" between the government and the industry, she says bitterly: "from the examination, approval to excavation and now the abolition of the clean-up plan, we residents feel as if we are washing warmth, suddenly happy and disappointed. When will this life come to an end? "

The Kaohsiung Qishan Zunhuai living Water Humanities Association, which has long assisted residents in supervising this case, has filed a lawsuit with the High Administrative Court for administrative negligence of the Kaohsiung municipal government. On May 31, 2017, the Kaohsiung High Administrative Court ruled that "the waste cleaning Law shall apply, and the competent authority has the obligation to order the actor to remove it."

Three years after the verdict, the Gao municipal government first approved the clean-up plan of the ten thousand companies and then abolished it. Zheng Miaozhen said, "We have obviously won the government, but we are still teased and fooled in every way. The word 'live and work in peace and contentment' is really too far away for us!"