Environmental
advocacy group Greenpeace again
managed to uncover cases of
environmental pollution caused by coal mining activities
in South Kalimantan.
In a report released today entitled "Revealed: Poisoning Water Coal Mine in South Kalimantan" revealed how the activity of extensive coal mining in South Kalimantan Province, Indonesia, has damaged water sources, endanger the health and future of the local community.
The report is the result of the Greenpeace field investigations for more than six months is also present strong evidence of how coal mining companies that have poured hazardous waste into rivers and water resources community, breaking the national standards for the disposal of waste in mining.
"This is a serious problem that must be addressed immediately. A third region of South Kalimantan has become a coal mining area. The local Environment Agency has failed to stop or prevent a violation. Because the number of coal mining very much, almost half of the river in South Kalimantan at risk of exposure to the effects of water pollution from mining.
In this report noted, twenty-two of the twenty-nine samples taken by Greenpeace from sewage settling ponds and pits former mine of five coal mining concession in South Kalimantan found to have a degree of acidity (pH) is very low, far below the standard set by the government. Of the entire sample, 18 of which have a degree of acidity (pH) under 4. All samples taken were also detected to contain concentrations of heavy metals.
Leakage and potential abundance of water from ponds contaminated hazardous waste in coal mining concessions pose a danger to the marshes, creeks and rivers in the vicinity.
"Greenpeace believes that there is a real danger of hazardous waste that is released by the mining company to bodies of water and the environment around the concession. When you read this report, communities around the coal mining concessions might be using water potentially contaminated with hazardous waste for bathing, washing and irrigate their farmland.
Related to this, Greenpeace issued a number of recommendations and demands. First, coal mining companies that profit from mining activities are dirty and illegal, should be responsible legally and morally to restore the environment of their illegal activity, to reduce the waste of water bodies, or permission of the company should be repealed .
Second, the company found to have violated the law should be responsible finance cleanup operations, even if they've finished mining permit or revoked, due to acid mine drainage problems will persist for decades. The government should not give coal mining company "permission to poison" the environment and society in South Kalimantan.
Third, relevant government authorities should monitor and investigate in more depth the coal mining companies that violate national standards, and pollute the environment. Law enforcement should be tightened, the sanctions should be reinforced, and crevices of regulation should be closed.
"The people of South Kalimantan deserve a life and a better life, all Indonesian people deserve justice, a healthy future and brighter with access to clean water for them and their posterity
In a report released today entitled "Revealed: Poisoning Water Coal Mine in South Kalimantan" revealed how the activity of extensive coal mining in South Kalimantan Province, Indonesia, has damaged water sources, endanger the health and future of the local community.
The report is the result of the Greenpeace field investigations for more than six months is also present strong evidence of how coal mining companies that have poured hazardous waste into rivers and water resources community, breaking the national standards for the disposal of waste in mining.
"This is a serious problem that must be addressed immediately. A third region of South Kalimantan has become a coal mining area. The local Environment Agency has failed to stop or prevent a violation. Because the number of coal mining very much, almost half of the river in South Kalimantan at risk of exposure to the effects of water pollution from mining.
In this report noted, twenty-two of the twenty-nine samples taken by Greenpeace from sewage settling ponds and pits former mine of five coal mining concession in South Kalimantan found to have a degree of acidity (pH) is very low, far below the standard set by the government. Of the entire sample, 18 of which have a degree of acidity (pH) under 4. All samples taken were also detected to contain concentrations of heavy metals.
Leakage and potential abundance of water from ponds contaminated hazardous waste in coal mining concessions pose a danger to the marshes, creeks and rivers in the vicinity.
"Greenpeace believes that there is a real danger of hazardous waste that is released by the mining company to bodies of water and the environment around the concession. When you read this report, communities around the coal mining concessions might be using water potentially contaminated with hazardous waste for bathing, washing and irrigate their farmland.
Related to this, Greenpeace issued a number of recommendations and demands. First, coal mining companies that profit from mining activities are dirty and illegal, should be responsible legally and morally to restore the environment of their illegal activity, to reduce the waste of water bodies, or permission of the company should be repealed .
Second, the company found to have violated the law should be responsible finance cleanup operations, even if they've finished mining permit or revoked, due to acid mine drainage problems will persist for decades. The government should not give coal mining company "permission to poison" the environment and society in South Kalimantan.
Third, relevant government authorities should monitor and investigate in more depth the coal mining companies that violate national standards, and pollute the environment. Law enforcement should be tightened, the sanctions should be reinforced, and crevices of regulation should be closed.
"The people of South Kalimantan deserve a life and a better life, all Indonesian people deserve justice, a healthy future and brighter with access to clean water for them and their posterity
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