The Tuo River Pollution Case
January 31, 2005 | BY
clpstaff &clp articlesBy Lucille Barale and Lily Wei [email protected]; [email protected] investors often ask how China's…
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By Lucille Barale and Lily Wei Zhou
Foreign investors often ask how China's laws would be applied in the case of an environmental disaster caused by an operating industrial plant. A case in Sichuan in 2004 provides a view of the competing interests that can be involved.
The Disaster. Water supplies for about one million people in the Tuo River region of Sichuan were contaminated from late February