Greenpeace investigated the largest of nine coal chemical demonstration projects in operation: Shenhua’s Coal-to-Liquid Demonstration Project located in Ordos, Inner Mongolia…Greenpeace’s investigation revealed that Shenhua’s Coal-to-Liquid Project went to extraordinary length to secure water supply for its operations, and has found alarming evidence of widespread ecological and social damage, resulting from the short span of eight years of operations…Based on careful examination of technical details we estimate that the total amount of industrial wastewater produced by the Shenhua coal-to-liquid project could be as much as 4.79 million tons per year per 1 million tons of end-products produced…we noticed seepage pits no more than 500 metres from the main office building where highly toxic industrial wastewater was being dumped and left to seep naturally into the ground, polluting the groundwater below…