Environmental Pollution in Tengger Desert MCC Paper Group Co., Ltd. holds 1 1.38% equity of MCC Meiliyun Industrial Investment Co., Ltd. and 60% equity of Ningxia Meili Paper Group Environmental Protection and Energy Conservation Co., Ltd.
The pollution problem in Tengger Desert was exposed again this winter after 20 14. The polluted area is adjacent to Shapotou National Nature Reserve in Zhongwei, Ningxia.
It was learned from authoritative sources that the contaminated site discovered this time was caused by the dumping of papermaking black liquor by Ningxia Meili Paper Group Co., Ltd., the predecessor of MCC Paper Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Meili Paper"). According to the official report of Zhongwei, the time span of dumping black liquor was 1998 to 2004.
In Shapotou National Nature Reserve, many dumping sites were found in the northern part of Xiaohu Lake, with large amount of pollutants, pungent smell and black oily pollutants.
A number of former employees of Murray Paper confirmed to this newspaper that around 2000, Murray Paper proposed "forest-paper integration" in order to expand production and save costs. After nearly 200,000 mu of desert was leveled, fast-growing forests were planted to provide wood pulp for paper mills. During the construction, the original desert was transformed into a forest area, and the road surface was sprayed with sewage (papermaking black liquor) to achieve the purpose of road hardening.
After the pollution problem of Murray Paper was exposed, at present, the local government has intervened. 165438+1October 10. At the pollution site, relevant departments are cleaning up and bagging the pollutants. A staff member said that the cleaning work has been going on for more than ten days, and more than 50,000 tons of bags have been cleaned.
Compared with the famous scenic deserts near the city, such as Mingsha Mountain in Dunhuang, Gansu and Kumutage in Shanshan, Xinjiang, where is Tengger Desert? The Tengger Desert, which is hundreds of times their area, is very low-key. The fourth largest desert in China, with an area of 43,000 square kilometers, has not appeared in the mainstream sight of tourists for a long time. In recent years, most of the explorations stopped at Shapotou, Zhongwei, the edge of the desert, and occasionally went deep into the hinterland of the desert lake area. In fact, however, the vast majority of Tengger Desert is Alashan Zuo Qi in Alashan League, Inner Mongolia.