Chapter 480: Severe Punishment
"Haha, I know a little, but law enforcement is difficult." Qian Guoqiang lowered his head in embarrassment.
He had known that Atari had serious pollution to the environment, but after watching it on the spot, he found that Atari's pollution situation was even more serious than he thought. They openly discharged the seriously polluted waste gas and wastewater without any treatment. With the production scale of Atari factory, this is a huge toxic gas and venom manufacturing base.
Although Qian Guoqiang can find various reasons and difficulties to excuse himself, as the director of the Environmental Protection Bureau, he also finds it difficult to face this unscrupulous pollution behavior.
Bao Feiyang looked back at him. For such an official, perhaps only by forcing him to a dead end can he have an explosive work ability.
Bao Feiyang didn't say anything else, and led the Changyuan County Environmental Protection Bureau to look around the Atali factory. Outside, you can see more than a dozen chimneys in the Atali factory constantly emitting gray and black smoke and dust, and you can also see several drains pouring a large amount of sewage into the river.
Around the factory, you can not only smell the pungent smell of smoke and dust, but also smell the stench emitted by the river. Occasionally, you can also see dead fish with white belly floating on the water.
Finally, Bao Feiyang took everyone back to Xigang Village. The villagers of Xigang Village were already concentrated in the open space in the village under the organization of the village chief Wang Baotian, and Ye Minjie explained to them the diet of lead discharge and the points to pay attention to in daily life.
At the same time, the medical vehicle from the Second Affiliated Hospital of the Medical Sciences that Ye Minjie contacted also rushed to the village with blood collection equipment and was collecting blood for the villagers. After taking it back, it was monitoring the blood lead concentration.
Bao Feiyang pointed to these villagers and said to Qian Guoqiang and others: "Director Qian, you should be able to guess what the test result will be?"
Qian Guoqiang's face turned pale, and the corners of his mouth twitched, and finally he couldn't laugh: "Director Bao, I, I..."
Before Qian Guoqiang was lying, Bao Feiyang had already said: "Even if he is a blind man, he can know the test results when he smells the pungent smell in the air. These villagers are harmed by waste gas and wastewater every day, and the blood lead concentration in their bodies must have exceeded the standard. Xigang Village had previously tested the blood lead concentration for children in the village. Director Qian must know the test results. The rate of exceeding the standard is 100%. And it is all above 250 micrograms per liter, and the highest is more than 400 micrograms per liter. This is already severe lead poisoning and may have died in a few years-"
"Bao, Director Bao, it's because we haven't done our job well." Qian Guoqiang said with a embarrassed expression.
"The job is not done well?" Bao Feiyang smiled: "Is it difficult to do work?"
"Yes, yes!" Qian Guoqiang nodded quickly: "We have also issued a notice to Atari for suspension of production, but it is useless. They just ignore it. What can we do? We can't rely on us to block the factory gate, right?"
Bao Feiyang waved his hand: "Okay, I won't mention the past. Now, what should Director Qian thinks should be dealt with in this situation?"
"I listened to Director Bao. Director Bao is a person praised by Secretary Long, Governor Yu and Director Xiong. He will definitely be able to handle such things." Qian Guoqiang smiled and said, "Anyway, we have no choice."
Bao Feiyang said coldly: "I'm asking you what to do. I didn't ask you how to deal with it. Director Qian should understand the environmental protection regulations, right?"
"Yes, yes!" Qian Guoqiang wiped sweat from his forehead. Bao Feiyang looked tender, but when he raised his face, it was still quite scary.
He said perfunctorily: "It's nothing more than a fine and ordering to correct it. If it doesn't change within the deadline, it will be ordered to suspend production and rectify it. Until the business license is revoked, but this requires the cooperation of the industrial and commercial department."
"I remember, Director Qian said that you have issued several rectification notices to Atari Company?" Bao Feiyang asked.
Qian Guoqiang nodded quickly: "Yes, yes, there are fines many times before and after, but he has not received a penny."
Bao Feiyang nodded and asked again: "Should we also seek compensation from Atari Company for the examination fees, medical expenses, and personal and mental damages for these villagers and children?"
"It should be, of course this should be. I'm afraid-" Qian Guoqiang nodded repeatedly.
"Okay. Just do what Director Qian said!"
Bao Feiyang suddenly waved his hand: "Shengtao, after you go back, you will immediately draft a penalty notice. According to what Director Qian said just now, Atari Company has not rectified the deadline and ordered it to stop production. After writing, I will go to Director Xiong, and then issued it to Atari Company through the joint signature of the Provincial Environmental Protection Department, Xijing Environmental Protection Bureau and Changyuan County Environmental Protection Bureau. I want to see if they still have to accept the leadership and management of the Party and the government."
In the end, Bao Feiyang has become murderous.
Qian Guoqiang was stunned, but he didn't expect that Bao Feiyang, who had always been very kind and talkative, would suddenly change his face.
He secretly complained in his heart. He fell into the pit dug by Bao Feiyang with a carelessness. This decision to deal with it inexplicably became "his own opinion". It can be imagined that once the county knows, it will definitely be furious.
Atari Company is the largest industrial enterprise in the county, and the profits and taxes paid every year are quite considerable. If Atari stops production and lacks this, the county's already stretched financial situation will definitely be even more difficult.
What's more, Atari has thousands of employees, and once the production is stopped, no one knows what will happen.
However, Bao Feiyang had made up his mind and no longer listened to Qian Guoqiang's explanation. He did not continue to stop in Changyuan County. He drove away directly and returned to Xijing city that night.
In the evening, Meng Shuang called from Yanjing, and Bao Feiyang told Meng Shuang what he saw today: "Shuang'er, I felt very guilty when I saw the pale little faces of those children. Why didn't I notice this earlier?"
Meng Shuang comforted on the phone: "Feiyang, it's not your business. How long has it been for you to go to the Environmental Protection Department? The problem of environmental pollution is indeed getting worse and worse. Many small ceramic factories in eastern Guangdong also directly discharge untreated wastewater and waste gases outside. If this continues, let alone not be able to see the blue sky and clear water, our health will be threatened."
"It's not that it's the future, it's already seriously threatened now!" Bao Feiyang told Meng Shuang the data collected by Ye Minjie. Most of the people living in the city had exceeded the standard blood lead concentration, which immediately scared Meng Shuang. It is hard for ordinary people to imagine that the situation was so serious.
Bao Feiyang said to Meng Shuang with great guilt: "Shuang'er, I want to deal with this matter as soon as possible, and then go to Yanjing to see you. Do you think it's okay?"
Although Meng Shuang wanted to see Bao Feiyang immediately, she still said, "Okay, don't worry, we will see you sooner or later. I will leave in two days. Then I will go directly to Xijing to find you!"
Bao Feiyang nodded quickly: "Okay, this matter should come to an end by then."
The next day at work, Wang Shengtao had already drafted the documents overnight. Bao Feiyang looked at them and found no problems. He took the document and the materials they collected and sorted them, called Wang Shengtao and Hu Yun to meet Qi Wannian, the captain of the Supervision Corps.
"Feiyang is here, sit down quickly." Qi Wannian's attitude was very enthusiastic, of course, only to Bao Feiyang, and to Wang Shengtao and Hu Yun, he just politely greeted him.
Bao Feiyang stopped Qi Wannian, signaled Hu Yun to pour water, and handed over a stack of materials: "Leader, this is the case. When I was working in Tianyuan City, there was a colleague of her cousin's family living in Changyuan County, our Xijing City. The day before yesterday, she brought her two children from her cousin's family to see me and said that the blood lead concentration in the two children was seriously exceeded the standard because of the nearby battery factory. The village where her cousin's family is located was very polluted. Please help me report to the leader."
"Yesterday I took Captain Wang and Captain Hu to understand the situation. I found that the situation was indeed serious, so I came to report to your leader immediately." Bao Feiyang briefly introduced the situation to Qi Wannian. Although the Supervision Office has a certain independent right to handle cases, in the current bureaucratic system, leaders often do not like subordinates who are too independent, and those subordinates who have to report everything can make them feel like superiors.
Bao Feiyang didn't know if Qi Wannian was such a person, but doing so could show his respect for his leader, and Qi Wannian was obviously very satisfied.
While looking at the materials, Qi Wannian asked Bao Feiyang to introduce the specific situation. It took about seven or eight minutes to put down the materials in his hand and said heartbrokenly: "This company called Atari is too much. Such situations must be dealt with seriously."
Then he said, "However, in the process of handling, you should also pay attention to methods and take appropriate care of local emotions and do not intensify conflicts."
The materials given by Bao Feiyang are very detailed, not only including the serious situation of excessive blood lead and pollution, but also the special status of Atari Company in Changyuan County and the previous handling. Therefore, although Qi Wannian has not fully understood this situation, he basically knows it and expressed his opinions very cautiously.
Of course, in principle, Qi Wannian supports strict handling of the company, but he does not want to intensify the conflict and make it difficult for Bao Feiyang to deal with it.
Bao Feiyang nodded quickly: "Yes, we will definitely solicit local opinions and try our best to consider their actual situation while being reasonable and legal."
"Well, Feiyang, I'm still very relieved when doing things. Even Secretary Long, Governor Yu and Director Xiong are praising you!" Qi Wannian said with a smile.
Bao Feiyang only took out the handling decision at this time: "Leader, look, this is Comrade Qian Guoqiang, director of Changyuan County Environmental Protection Bureau, on the handling of the pollutant discharge of Atari Company. They have issued similar punishment notices to Atari before, but Atari is very tough and refuses to implement it. So this time, our Supervisory Corps supervised it. Do you think that you can sign and implement it with the three levels of environmental protection departments at the provincial, municipal and county levels and strongly implement it?"
Chapter completed!