Hong Quang coal mine was granted an exploitation license by Yen Bai Provincial People's Committee in April 2010, with an operating period of 16 years, an area of 20 hectares, and a scale of 10,000 tons/year, now in Khanh Hoa commune, Lao Cai province.
During the coal mining process, Viet Sinh Mineral Mineral Mining Joint Stock Company (Viet Sinh Company) has affected the lives, activities, travel, and production of people, causing serious environmental pollution. People have repeatedly sent petitions for help to authorities and businesses but have not been resolved.
People in Khanh Hoa commune, Lao Cai province are upset because for many years they have lived miserably because of coal mining activities in the area, destroying residential roads, polluting the environment, burying streams and fields.
Based on the reflection of the people, Lao Dong reporters went on a field trip to Hong Quang coal mine in village 10, Khanh Hoa commune.
According to the reporter's records, the area has a coal transport route of Hong Quang mine that is heavily affected.
First of all, the environment is polluted, with smoke and dust. Secondly, the roads are crushed and damaged, making it difficult for vehicles to travel and dangerous. Thirdly, many hills were cut, causing landslides, burying people's cultivated areas.
Mr. Hoang Trung Hai - Chairman of Khanh Hoa Commune People's Committee confirmed - the people's reflections are well-founded.
Saying that is too light, Mr. Hoang Trung Hai.
Many traffic routes in the area managed by him were crushed, the road was full of potholes, elephant potholes, and dusty, causing harm to people's health. Everything happened before our eyes, after many years, the government did not see it as a strange thing.
Mr. Le Van Ha - Director of Viet Sinh Mineral Exploitation Joint Stock Company also confirmed that the issues reported by the people were correct.
The commune chairman acknowledged that the people's reflection was well-founded, the business owner said that the people's reflection was correct, but no one stood up to handle the current problems.
If Khanh Hoa commune cannot solve it, Lao Cai provincial leaders must be responsible for handling it, cannot let the above situation continue, do not let people call for help many times but the government still ignore it.
What must be done is to identify damaged and degraded routes due to coal transportation enterprises, forcing enterprises to repair them, ensuring quality, so that vehicles can circulate stably and safely.
streams are filled with soil and rocks due to the coal mining process, businesses must handle them, not affecting the flow.
Determine the area of buried agricultural land to compensate the people.
Not to mention, for many years, people have lived in polluted air, damaging their health, not knowing who to ask for compensation from?
