China to move residents, keep lead smelters going

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China to move residents, keep lead smelters going

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE59I15420091019?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews

Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:50am EDT

reporting by Chris Buckley

This article relates Miller because lead has been deposited in the soil and due to the soil cycle the lead ends up in the plants and animals and then eventually into the people of the surrounding towns. The pollution is also getting into the air that the people are breathing in, this has to do with the Carbon cycle. More carbon and other harmful toxins are being polluted into the air and it is disrupting the surrounding people and ecosystems.

The area that this article pertains to is Jiyuan County, China.

China plans to move 15,000 residents in its biggest lead smelting area away from the plants in order to allow them to keep operating, after tests showed over 1,000 children had excessive lead in their blood. The mayor of Jiyuan, Zhao Suping, said 15,000 people in 10 villages around the plants would move at a total cost of about 1 billion yuan ($150 million), allowing lead plants including China's largest, owned by Yuguang Gold and Lead, to keep operating, the China Daily reported over the weekend.

I believe that China needs to enforce stricter laws to prohibit the intoxication of there people. China needs to take better care of its people and place more laws on big businesses. I think that the UN should also get involved because this is polluting our earth and many other countries that China are also being affected by the extensive pollution the Chinese are producing.

smelters- a person who owns or works in a place where ores are smelted.