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CNPC sacks three responsible for blast
(China Daily)
Updated: 2005-12-06 05:52
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has sacked three bosses held
responsible for the explosion at its Jilin Petroleum and Chemical Company that
led to a severe chemical spill, according to a Xinhua report yesterday.
Residents fill
water containers from a tanker truck in a street in Harbin, in northeast
China's Heilongjiang province Monday Nov. 28, 2005.
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The blast on November 13 caused about 100 tons of pollutants containing
hazardous benzene and its derivatives to leak into the Songhua River.
According to the report which quoted yesterday's China Oil News, Jiang
Jiemin, vice-president and the deputy secretary of the Leading Group of CNPC CPC
Committee, announced last Sunday that three people had been dismissed.
Yu Li, manager of the Jilin company, was removed from his position and will
go through the inspection of the working teams from the State Council and Jilin
Province.
Shen Dian, former manager of CNPC's Liaoyang branch, was appointed as his
successor.
Jiang also ordered the Jilin company to sack Shen Dongming, director of the
plant where the blast occurred, and Wang Fang, superintendent of the benzene
workshop.
Jiang said that the blast had caused "severe water environment pollution to
the Songhua River," thus "exerting great influence to the life and economic
development for the residents living along the river."
He added the pollution incident had "aroused huge attention from the
international community and tarnished the overall image of CNPC."
Jiang, however, went on to praise Yu's achievement in saving the Jilin
company from deficit during his three years' management and his efforts after
the blast to try to limit the number of casualties.
(China Daily 12/06/2005 page3)
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