Raising dogs pollutes the environment – Photo: Chau Tuan
This is the current situation as stated by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Ho Chi Minh City in a document sent to the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, in which it prepared a proposal to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to overcome the difficulties and obstacles. Has been done Control over facilities causing environmental pollution in residential areas.
Recently, Ho Chi Minh City has tested the remediation of establishments producing environmental pollution in Quarters 4 and 5, Dong Hung Thuan Ward, District 12. However, management is still difficult due to lack of measures. The law enforces the suspension of operations of establishments with repeated violations and establishments that are forced to relocate because they belong to industries that pose a high risk of causing environmental pollution in residential areas.
While implementing handling measures, these facilities are still not proactive, slow to implement, build factories in new locations, take countermeasures, remove seals, and do not comply with approval decisions. Suspend or restrict operations at the old location.
There are many households and small companies operating in residential areas in Ho Chi Minh City, with many establishments at risk of environmental pollution.
Many individuals and organizations sanctioned for administrative violations merely accept paying fines and do not follow remedial measures such as suspension of operations, leading to frustration among people and difficulty in handling units. Sanctioning decisions of state administrative agencies are not actually effective.
Meanwhile, electricity and water are the basic factors for production activities. Interruption of electricity and water supply is an effective measure to compel violating individuals and organizations to comply with remedial measures. However, the rules on administrative restrictions in the field of environmental protection do not specifically mention them, so local people cannot enforce them.
Therefore, Ho Chi Minh City proposes additional measures to prevent individuals and organizations that violate environmental regulations from providing electricity and water to the production stages in order to force these establishments to recover from the consequences.
(TagstoTranslate)Environmental pollution
