China Plans To Build 8-Gigawatt Coal Plant - Biggest In Asia

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1. China: Confrontation Over Coal Plant Enters 3rd Day

China: Confrontation Over Coal Plant Enters 3rd Day
By EDWARD WONG
Published: December 22, 2011


Police officers and protesters concerned about environmental pollution from a planned coal-fired power plant confronted each other for a third day in Haimen, Guangdong Province. The protests began Tuesday when thousands of people blocked an expressway to demand the local government cancel plans to build the plant. The police fired tear gas to try to disperse the crowd, according to a local resident reached by telephone. Chinese news organizations reported that officials said they would suspend the project. But on Thursday, police officers armed with tear gas guns sealed off the highway as a group of protesters faced them. Some news agencies reported that there were some arrests. Haimen is 90 miles from Wukan, a fishing village that evicted Communist Party officials and the police over a land dispute. Leaders there announced Wednesday they were halting their protest.


Video: 30,000 Chinese Occupy Coal Plants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5vdncZbkmsw


http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/12/21/393761/video-30000-chinese-occupy-coal-plants/