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Persons at Fault?

Who was Impacted?

  • Worker carelessness
  • Lack of response by central and regional state authorities
  • failed to notify the public until the toxins reached Harbin, China
  • 6 total deaths from explosion
  • Over 70 injured
  • 10,000 temporarily evacuated

Cleanup/Response?

  • Factory officials and local government officials attempted to manage the spill themselves without notifying Beijing
  • Drain reservoir water into the Songhua in an attempt to dilute contaminants.
  • City officials shut down municipal water systems from river
  • Mass evacuations
  • Government threatened to punish anyone who attempted cover up incident

Damage Report

Regulations

  • Pollution destroyed ecosystems and ruined fresh water resources
  • 70% of fresh water in China is polluted
  • No rules have been applied
  • Global environmental organizations keep check on all chemical plants in China
  • Now use media to get out pertinate information

What was it?

Bibliography

Jilin Song

  • November 13, 2005 at 1:45 p.m.
  • Petrochemical plant explosion
  • Jilin Province, China
  • Resulted in over 100 tons of toxins to be spilled into the Songhua River
  • Officials denied pollution
  • N.A. "Northeast Cleans Up After Chemical Blast." Asia Times, 30 November 2005. Web. 5 November 2015.
  • N.A. "The Jilin Chemical Plant Explosions and SOnghua River Pollution Incident, China." Environmental Justice Atlas. University of Oxford, 2 May 2015. Web. 5 November 2015
  • Chan, John. "Chemical Spill Pollutes Water Supply in North-Eastern China." World Socialist Web Site, 1 December 2005. Web. 5 November 2015
  • Chen, Junyu and Wang, Jing and Cui, Xiaohuo. "Explosions, Corruption, and Floods: How China' Chemical Plants Became a National Danger." News China, October 2010. Web. 5 November 2015
  • Wu, Yong and He, Na. "Cause of Jilin Chemical Plant Blasts Found." China Daily. 15 November 2005. Web. 5 November 2015

Effects on Songhua River

  • Toxins included Benzene, Aniline, and Nitrobenzene
  • Contaminated many rivers that branch off
  • Largest Transboundary Spill

Cause

If pollution continued in the river, it would have affected Russia

  • Clog in processing tower of Benzene sector
  • carelessness of worker trying to unclog it
  • Benezene- toxic chemical, known to cause cancer
  • odorless,colorless, gas form
  • breaks down into carbon dioxide and water when burned

Jilin Chemical Plant Explosions

By: Annie Bartholomew

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