Five officials punished over Tai Lake pollution
12 June 2007
Five officials in Yixing, Jiangsu province have been punished in the wake of the Tai Lake pollution crisis that choked off the freshwater supply for more than 2 million people, local government said on Monday, according to Xinhua (in Chinese). The officials are the town head of Zhoutie, his deputy, a lower-level town environmental official and two senior officials with the Yixing environmental protection bureau, local sources said. Zhoutie is a town full of chemical plants. A few plants continued to discharge sewage into Tai Lake after the pollution crisis. The officials were accused of dereliction of duty and received demerits and demotions, though sources declined to specify the exact punishment of each official. China's main environmental protection body has vowed to strengthen supervision and close all factories that discharge pollutants into the lake, China's largest.
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