Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Monday, September 17, 2012
EPA Gives Grant To China For Coal Plants
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
China Copper Extraction In Amazon
Chinese-Owned Firm to Produce 180 Million Pounds of Copper Annually in Ecuador
QUITO – Chinese-owned Ecuacorriente plans to produce 180 million pounds of copper annually at its large open-pit mine in the Ecuadorian Amazon, the firm’s executives said on Wednesday.
They said in a press conference that a total of 60,000 tons of ore will be extracted per day from the Mirador mine, which will be two kilometers (1.2 miles) in diameter and 800 meters (2,620 feet) deep.
The company will export the mineral concentrate, 85 percent of which will be copper and the rest gold and silver, because the country lacks sufficient smelting capacity.
Ecuacorriente signed the concession contract with the government on Monday, opening the door to the first large-scale mining project in the country’s history.
Opponents of the mine, mainly Indian groups, are planning a protest march that is to set out Thursday from El Panqui, the town in southern Ecuador where the mine is located, and arrive in Quito on March 22.
Salvador Quishpe, member of the indigenous opposition party Pachakutik and governor of the Amazon province of Zamora Chinchipe, told Efe Wednesday that the project will pollute water supplies and the environment.
Environment Minister Marcela Aguiñaga, who responded to those complaints on Wednesday, acknowledged that “all activity of this type has an impact” but she said the contract with Ecuacorriente establishes very clear parameters and rules to ensure the effect is minimal.
She also noted that the company has created an environmental mitigation fund and plans to contribute $2.5 million to it annually.
The goal is for the condition of the concession area to be virtually unchanged when Ecuacorriente returns it to the country, the minister said at a press conference, adding that the Chinese company has pledged to reforest 4,000 hectares (9,875 acres), or an area 1,200 hectares bigger than the size of the concession area.
After the mine is fully developed, its crater will be converted into a small lake that will blend in with the natural surroundings, Aguiñaga said.
The company received its mining permit from the Environment Ministry in February after a process lasting “several months,” Ecuacorriente’s deputy environment manager, Raul Brito, said.
The firm also has received the majority of the remaining permits it needs to begin operations, according to Mauricio Nuñez, the company’s legal vice president and lead negotiator.
Last week, Non-Renewable Natural Resources Minister Wilson Pastor said Ecuacorriente will begin its activities “immediately” but he estimated that the “heavy machinery” needed to develop the mine will not arrive from abroad until year’s end.
Ecuacorriente is owned by China Railway Construction Corporation, the world’s fourth-largest construction firm, and Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group Holding, the planet’s sixth-largest copper producer. EFE
QUITO – Chinese-owned Ecuacorriente plans to produce 180 million pounds of copper annually at its large open-pit mine in the Ecuadorian Amazon, the firm’s executives said on Wednesday.
They said in a press conference that a total of 60,000 tons of ore will be extracted per day from the Mirador mine, which will be two kilometers (1.2 miles) in diameter and 800 meters (2,620 feet) deep.
The company will export the mineral concentrate, 85 percent of which will be copper and the rest gold and silver, because the country lacks sufficient smelting capacity.
Ecuacorriente signed the concession contract with the government on Monday, opening the door to the first large-scale mining project in the country’s history.
Opponents of the mine, mainly Indian groups, are planning a protest march that is to set out Thursday from El Panqui, the town in southern Ecuador where the mine is located, and arrive in Quito on March 22.
Salvador Quishpe, member of the indigenous opposition party Pachakutik and governor of the Amazon province of Zamora Chinchipe, told Efe Wednesday that the project will pollute water supplies and the environment.
Environment Minister Marcela Aguiñaga, who responded to those complaints on Wednesday, acknowledged that “all activity of this type has an impact” but she said the contract with Ecuacorriente establishes very clear parameters and rules to ensure the effect is minimal.
She also noted that the company has created an environmental mitigation fund and plans to contribute $2.5 million to it annually.
The goal is for the condition of the concession area to be virtually unchanged when Ecuacorriente returns it to the country, the minister said at a press conference, adding that the Chinese company has pledged to reforest 4,000 hectares (9,875 acres), or an area 1,200 hectares bigger than the size of the concession area.
After the mine is fully developed, its crater will be converted into a small lake that will blend in with the natural surroundings, Aguiñaga said.
The company received its mining permit from the Environment Ministry in February after a process lasting “several months,” Ecuacorriente’s deputy environment manager, Raul Brito, said.
The firm also has received the majority of the remaining permits it needs to begin operations, according to Mauricio Nuñez, the company’s legal vice president and lead negotiator.
Last week, Non-Renewable Natural Resources Minister Wilson Pastor said Ecuacorriente will begin its activities “immediately” but he estimated that the “heavy machinery” needed to develop the mine will not arrive from abroad until year’s end.
Ecuacorriente is owned by China Railway Construction Corporation, the world’s fourth-largest construction firm, and Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group Holding, the planet’s sixth-largest copper producer. EFE
Monday, December 5, 2011
China Easily Executes Women
So sensitive were the photographs, that the authorities banned them from being published. The Government feared they would evoke sympathy for the female prisoners.
Until now they had remained unseen. However, last week the pictures were published for the first time on Phoenix TV, a broadcaster in Hong Kong. .The women had all been convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to death.
NOTE: In the words of the animal shelter world and their slaughtering, the same could be said about these non violent women being exterminated by the state.
"we're not killing then, we're giving them a kind death"
Until now they had remained unseen. However, last week the pictures were published for the first time on Phoenix TV, a broadcaster in Hong Kong. .The women had all been convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to death.
NOTE: In the words of the animal shelter world and their slaughtering, the same could be said about these non violent women being exterminated by the state.
"we're not killing then, we're giving them a kind death"
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Is USA Next Low Wage Haven>
Jokes about the U.S. becoming “Europe’s Mexico” are commonplace, but now high-priced consultants are pushing the notion in all seriousness.
They’re predicting that within five years certain Southern U.S. states will be among the cheapest manufacturing locations in the developed world—and competitive with China.
Wages for China’s factory workers certainly aren’t going to rise to U.S. levels soon. BCG estimates they will be 17 percent of the projected U.S. manufacturing average—$26 an hour for wages and benefits—by 2015.
Ford’s flagship Dearborn Truck plant outside Detroit, for example, contracts non-union workers to do inspection and repairs—long the coveted jobs, that workers could get only with many years’ seniority—at $10 an hour with no benefits.
That’s more than the Chinese average now, but less than what’s projected for 2015.
Wages will run from $7.50 an hour (general labor) to $10 (assemblers) to $16 (programmers). Federal minimum wage is $7.25.
They’re predicting that within five years certain Southern U.S. states will be among the cheapest manufacturing locations in the developed world—and competitive with China.
Wages for China’s factory workers certainly aren’t going to rise to U.S. levels soon. BCG estimates they will be 17 percent of the projected U.S. manufacturing average—$26 an hour for wages and benefits—by 2015.
Ford’s flagship Dearborn Truck plant outside Detroit, for example, contracts non-union workers to do inspection and repairs—long the coveted jobs, that workers could get only with many years’ seniority—at $10 an hour with no benefits.
That’s more than the Chinese average now, but less than what’s projected for 2015.
Wages will run from $7.50 an hour (general labor) to $10 (assemblers) to $16 (programmers). Federal minimum wage is $7.25.
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