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Article

22 Feb 2010

Author:
Lu Fang & Zhu Jiaqi, Sound of Hope Radio Network

Factory’s Pollution Victimizes Half a Million People in Central China

A factory in Hunan Province has been emitting toxic metals which have polluted water sources in over ten townships…cancer cases have skyrocketed, and 51,834 children have been identified with excessive blood levels of lead and cadmium...the Antimony Metallurgical Factory of the Hsikwangshan Twinkling Star Co [part of Hunan Nonferrous Metals Group]...secretly drilled three deep wells...in Aug. 2007, seriously polluting the drinking water in several more villages...[and] colluded with village cadres to force fish farmers to leave their aquafarms in order to provide additional acreage for the plant’s spare sewage ponds...[Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Hsikwangshan Twinkling Star and Hunan Nonferrous Metals Group to respond; Hsikwangshan Twinkling Star declined to respond, deferring to Hunan Nonferrous Metals Group. Hunan Nonferrous could not be reached.]