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22 Dec 2011

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Xinhua [China]

No deaths in S China power plant protests

…[V]illagers from…Haimen…gathered again…to protest [a planned power plant over pollution concerns]…"No one has died since the incident took place," [dismissing media reports] Chen Xinzao, secretary of the CPC [Communist Party of China] Chaoyang District Committee told…"The construction of the new power plant must pass the environmental impact assessment and it must win the approval of Haimen residents"…Shantou city government announced Tuesday evening that the project would be suspended. The protest was triggered by the Fengsheng Electricity Investment Company's planned expansion of a coal-fired power plant. Villagers complained that the current power plant had led to a rise in the number of cancer patients, the deterioration of the environment and a drop in fishing hauls…reporters went to…site of the new power plant…but did not see any buildings or signs of construction…

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