Is Denso violating Chinese environmental law?
According to Kyodo News, Greenpeace thinks Japanese auto parts company Denso is in violation of Chinese environmental law:
The companies are eight multinationals on the 2008 Fortune Global 500 rankings that include Denso, Shell and Samsung Electronics, and 10 Chinese companies listed on 2008’s Fortune China 100 rankings, including local oil firm Sinopec and the Dongfeng Motor Group that has joint ventures with several Japanese auto makers, Greenpeace’s report Silent Giants said.
The Chinese regulation, introduced in May last year, requires companies that exceed pollution discharge standards to publish their emissions data on a major media platform within 30 days of being reported by local environmental bureaus.
But the report said that none complied with the 30-day time limit, and only three eventually made public their pollution information, one of them a year after the 30-day timeline.
Greenpeace’s report also concluded that the Chinese government’s unwillingness to enforce its own environmental laws encourages noncompliance with regulations.
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Isn’t “Chinese environmental law” a contradiction of terms?
I guess it’s wrong if a Japanese company damages China’s environment, but it’s okay if China does it.
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Yeah, I couldn’t help but think that myself. Unfair, totally, and parts of China and the Chinese government are doing their best, but still….
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So did you find that photo by searching “dweeb” or what?
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It’s from a Denso commercial:
http://www.japanprobe.com/2008/10/13/the-emerging-surveillance-society-in-japan/
If they’re violating it, then problem needs to be addressed but I’ll be damned if I ever trust a “report” from Greenpeace considering the stellar research and criteria of past reports.
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“then THE problem needs…”
Doh.
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Spot on… Greenpeace are not the most reliable source on environment matters. They once ranked Nintendo as worst IT/Tech co. for environment matters. Why? Nintendo did not respond to their survey so scored very low points.
Stellar research!
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China has one law: Contacts
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huh?
Last thing I remember about china is its deadly pollution and corruption.
I didn’t even begin to suspect China had something as ridiculous as an environmental law.
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Yeah, China sucks, and it is the not just about corruption but the genocide of Uyghur people, and they try to kill the Uyghur culture and i think Xingjiang should declare independence and separate ourselves from the evil Chinese empire!! Here is our website http://www.uygur.org/, cheers.
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From June to August 1955 in the western areas of Japan, including Kinki, Chugoku, Shikoku, and Kyushu, 12,131 new-born babies were poisoned and 130 died (according to a 1956 Ministry of Public Welfare survey), because during production arsenic had been mixed into the Morinaga Powdered Milk “MF” produced by the Tokushima plant of the Morinaga Milk Company.
In March 1981, after 26 years had passed, it was finally acknowledged that 13,389 persons had ingested MF milk, that 600 persons had died as a result, and that 6,093 persons were suffering from continuing health difficulties, with 624 afflicted by severe mental retardation, developmental difficulties, and brain-damage-related paralysis.
If one were to attribute the cause of this incident simply to a default in the production system of powdered baby milk, then one would fail to see its true repercussions. In fact, the incident was part of a social trend in which the practice of breast-feeding fell victim to the mechanisms of mass consumption promoted by the dairy industry, which took advantage of the general atmosphere in society at large, the medical administration, and, particularly, the community of paediatricians.
Japan is badass!
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Oh please. Greenpeace is guilty of going after the ‘low hanging fruit’.
If they really concerned about curbing pollution, they’d be after the PRC 24/7.
The drawback of that ‘moral’ stance? Winding up in a Chinese prison on ‘god-knows-what’ charge, for as long as they want to keep you there.
No, it’s much safer to bully Japanese companies where the worst that can happen is being politely told to ‘go away’ [by either the police or the government].
Defenders of the environment?
Feh. You want show your concern for Mother Earth? Go protest the North Koreans. They’re worse polluters than the PRC.
Now that would take guts.
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You’re absolutely right. Greenpeace are a bunch of hypocritical opportunists.
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