Recently, Du Xiaofei, a villager in Hequ County, Xinzhou City, reported in real name that due to his report that there were serious environmental pollution problems in the production process of Shanqu Group Hequ Open-pit Coal Industry Co., Ltd., on January 3, 2022, he was surrounded by 5 security guards of Shanmei Group Hequ Open-pit Coal Industry Co., Ltd. in front of his home, causing some soft tissue damage to his body, and on January 4, the Hequ County Public Security Bureau accepted the case.
The reporter's on-site investigation found that the pollution situation of the Hequ open-pit coal mine of the Shanmei Group was quite serious, and due to pollution and the occupation of cultivated land, the relationship between the Hequ open-pit coal mine of the Shanmei Group and the local villagers was also extremely tense.
Villagers report pollution and are beaten, who is behind it?
According to Du Xiaofei, his family is a native of Hardland Ridge Village, Jiuxian Town, Hequ County, and has been farming for generations. Due to the rapid expansion of the scope of hequ open-pit coal mining in shanmei group in recent years, the hard-ground village has been identified as the target of the relocation of the entire village, but because some villagers are not satisfied with the compensation conditions, the relocation work is not smooth. However, in order to achieve production progress, the Hequ open-pit coal mine of Shanmei Group did not slow down the production speed. The villagers who remain in the village live all day in an environment polluted by smoke, fly ash and noise. Du Xiaofei said that starting in May 2021, the Hequ open-pit coal mine of Shanmei Group began to carry out deep-hole blasting operations within a distance of 50 meters from his home. Coal ash was flying all over the sky, the environmental pollution was particularly serious, and he felt that the safety of life and property was greatly threatened, so he began to report the environmental pollution of the Hequ open-pit coal mine of the Shanmei Group under his real name.
According to the video of the report provided by Du Xiaofei, he stood in front of his own house in the hard-ground village, behind the Mountain Coal Group Hequ open-pit coal mine area in a cloud of smoke, it is obvious that the pollution situation is serious, there is yellow-black smoke soaring into the sky, and a thick layer of black fly ash has fallen on the nearby trees and the ground. Du Xiaofei said that because he reported the pollution of the Hequ open-pit coal mine of the Shanmei Group, on the New Year's holiday of January 3, 2022, he was stopped by 5 security guards of the Hequ open-pit coal mine of the Shanmei Group in front of his home, and he did not ask questions and beat him. The beating caused some soft tissue injuries to Du Xiaofei's body.
"I don't know these people, why are they coming to beat me?" Who made them beat me? Du Xiaofei, who was still bruised at the injured site, told reporters.
Environmental pollution is serious, and it is difficult for villagers to protect their rights
According to Du Xiaofei, when he returned to the village on January 4, he found that his family's house had been dug into an island, and the way home had become a cliff several meters high. Du Xiaofei said his family's house and breeding greenhouses had never signed any agreements with the Hequ open-pit coal mine of the Mountain Coal Group.
Du Xiaofei told reporters, "I am a native of Hardland Ridge Village, Jiuxian Town, Hequ County, Shanxi Province, and mountain coal group Hequ Old County Open-pit Coal Industry Co., Ltd. forcibly dug up three poplar trees in Changlianggou, Hardland Ridge Village, in July 2019, and in June 2020, the company put me in Hardland Ridge Village. Ash kiln ditch 24.61 acres of woodland forcibly dug up, there are 32,000 pine trees in the woodland, the woodland is in 1983 hard land village collective auction, my father and another person in my village joint venture to buy, woodland has been 29 years long, from June 2021 to the present, the company has been taking deep hole blasting operations in front of my home, now one of the houses has been blown open a meter of holes, the remaining house is also full of holes, cracks everywhere, there have been great safety hazards, in November 2021, the open-pit coal mine under the banner of supply assurance and more than fifty poplar trees in front of my home, elm trees have all been forcibly dug up, not only that , open-pit coal mine on my house, take cut off water, power cut, break the road, now go home need to climb a cliff four meters high to go back, material supplies all need ropes to be able to adjust up, January 3, 2022 I was in front of the door of the mountain coal group Hequ Old County Open-pit Coal Industry Co., Ltd. Chairman Liu Zhongxin arranged by five men in black wearing masks to beat me, January 30, 2022 New Year when I went to my father's cemetery to worship, went to find that the cemetery was also dug up by the construction team arranged by Chairman Liu Zhong, There is no shadow of the cemetery anymore."
The reporter found that the original intersection back to the village was also dug up, and the intersection was blocked by two huge stones, which could not be passed at all, and many villagers were extremely dissatisfied with this.
Standing in the hard land village, at the foot of the mountain coal group Hequ open-pit coal mine mining area, the village was dug down dozens of meters of cliffs, only to see the thick smoke in the mining area, coal ash, soot choking people can not open their eyes, nearby trees on the ground fell a thick layer of black ash. Villagers told reporters that now is not the time of the worst pollution, whenever the cannon is fired, the scene is comparable to the end of the world, and the smoke and dust cover the sky.
"Almost once or twice a day, countless times have been reported, and no one has taken care of it"
According to informed sources, the Hequ open-pit coal mine of the Shanmei Group is a large enterprise, and the county units dare not manage it, which has led to some people acting arbitrarily.
In order to protect his property from being infringed again, from the first month, Du Xiaofei moved back to the village to live in the old cave without water and electricity, which was crumbling and leaking on all sides, and used his life to protect his home.
"Don't try to sneak up on my home unless you bury me," Mr. Du told reporters with red eyes.
In order to protect their lives and property from infringement, villagers reported that the enterprise polluted the environment, and the enterprise actually dispatched security guards to beat the whistleblower, which is incomprehensible. Today is a society governed by the rule of law, and no one's fist is strong. Local governments should stand in their own position, earnestly protect the legitimate rights and interests of the people from infringement, and ensure the safety of the lives and property of the people under their rule.
We will continue to follow and track the report.
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