CCTV News: Gongyi, Henan: It is false data that evades supervision and online monitoring.
Online monitoring of pollutants is an effective means to objectively reflect whether the pollutants discharged by enterprises meet the standards. In order to prevent the falsification of enterprise data, at present, third-party operation and maintenance enterprises are introduced to supervise the data in many places, but some enterprises still evade supervision by fiddling with the data. Looking back, investigators and reporters of the Central Environmental Protection Inspector recently found that a carbon factory in Mihe Town, gongyi city had made great efforts in emission data.
Far away from gongyi city Rongxin Carbon Products Co., Ltd., the reporter saw the thick smoke emitted by the enterprise, so he immediately started the drone for aerial exploration and found that the exhaust emission of the enterprise was seriously trailing, which was obviously not up to standard.
Reporter:Is this line (up to standard)?
Zhang Yibo, head of carbon environmental protection in Rongxin, gongyi city, Henan:No (up to standard).
Reporter:Is it always like this?
Zhang Yibo, head of carbon environmental protection in Rongxin, gongyi city, Henan:Found today, online data can be (up to standard).
Reporter:Why can’t cigarettes (meet the standard) and online data (meet the standard)?
The actual emission is not good, and the monitoring data is ok. What logic is this? At first, the reporter thought it was wrong, but in front of the display screen of waste gas emission, the reporter did see that the emission data of sulfur dioxide was 20 mg per cubic meter, far below the national emission standard, and after 20 minutes, the investigators found that the data was reduced to 4 mg per cubic meter.
Reporter:Can this enterprise achieve ultra-low emissions?
Qi Yongjun, Director of the Industrial Office of Mihe Town, gongyi city, Henan:Can it meet the standard? This machine has the final say, and they can’t get in.
How did this data come from? In the online monitoring workshop of the enterprise, the reporter found the answer. According to environmental laws, monitoring instruments are controlled by a third party, and only the third-party operation and maintenance enterprises can enter the interface of parameter setting. Sewage enterprises only have the operator’s permission to browse, and they can’t enter the administrator’s interface to change parameters without a password. However, on-site reporters can directly enter the interface of parameter setting without any password, and parameters that can affect the final emission data, such as range and slope, can be reset, which opens a convenient door for falsifying and modifying data.
Engineering staff of Gongyi Office of Beijing Xuedilong Technology Co., Ltd.:What company are you from? You are from the office of Cidilong Gongyi. How did you get in? They restarted the computer and went directly to that interface.
Xing Changcheng, Director of the Second Division of the State Environmental Protection Supervision Office:Because many of the costs of third-party operation and maintenance are paid by enterprises, some third-party enterprises, maybe some third-party enterprises, especially online operation enterprises, are bound to obey or succumb to the wishes of enterprises, which will cover up some illegal sewage discharge behaviors of enterprises.
Danyang, Jiangsu: Longjiang Steel’s excessive emission data is suspected of fraud.
During the period when the central environmental protection inspector looked back and stationed in Jiangsu Province, the inspector group received a report from the masses that Longjiang Iron and Steel in Danyang City, Zhenjiang was suspected of illegal sewage discharge. The reporter immediately rushed to Zhenjiang Danyang Longjiang Iron and Steel Company with the investigators of the East China Supervision Bureau of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and found that the real-time emission data of sulfur dioxide of the enterprise was suspected of serious fraud.
Reporters and inspectors immediately rushed to the vicinity of Longjiang Iron and Steel in Danyang City. In this affiliated enterprise of Longjiang Iron and Steel, several workers were working in the open air.
Employees of Hebei Jianqiao Metallurgical Company:Into the factory.
Reporter:Who do you work for?
Employees of Hebei Jianqiao Metallurgical Company:Longjiang iron and steel.
Employees of Hebei Jianqiao Metallurgical Company:I can spray if I want, or I can’t spray if I don’t want. You can talk to my leader. You don’t belong to my leader.
Standing in a high-rise building not far from Longjiang Iron and Steel, we can clearly see the emission situation of Longjiang Iron and Steel. The inspectors and reporters spent the whole morning observing and found that the smoke emitted by the desulfurization tower of the sintering machine of the enterprise was obviously different from the steam next to it, and the steam would soon disappear, while the smoke from the desulfurization tower was very long, which obviously exceeded the standard.
Han Hong, cadre of East China Supervision Bureau of Ministry of Ecology and Environment:This is the blue smoke just now, which is quite obvious.
Inspectors were shocked when they came to this steel enterprise to check the emission data. The original data showed that the concentration of sulfur dioxide raw flue gas was only twenty or thirty milligrams per cubic meter, and the final treated emission concentration was almost zero. The person in charge of enterprise environmental protection said that they used foreign ore with low sulfur content, so the concentration of sulfur dioxide in flue gas was obviously low.
Danyang Longjiang Iron and Steel Environmental Protection Director:Sometimes not.
Reporter:How much is the lowest time.
Danyang Longjiang Iron and Steel Environmental Protection Director:Is zero. The tail is very long, it is steam, and steam should not tail, it should not.
The reporter learned that the waste gas from the sintering machine is not only determined by the sulfur content of mineral powder, but also related to the burning blast furnace gas, coke oven gas and pulverized coal coke powder, which should be several hundred milligrams per cubic meter. It is impossible for the untreated waste gas concentration to be only 20, and the real-time emission data of sulfur dioxide from enterprises is suspected of serious fraud.
Fengcheng, Jiangxi: The Cat-and-Mouse Alliance Behind dongjiang environmental protection
In November, 2016, the Fourth Environmental Protection Inspector Group of the Central Committee assigned the fifty-eighth question to Jiangxi Province, pointing out that environmental violations are common in hazardous waste business units in Jiangxi Province, among which the permitted scope of hazardous waste business licenses of enterprises such as dongjiang environmental protection in Jiangxi Province exceeds the actual disposal capacity. One and a half years have passed. How is the rectification of this enterprise named by the Central Environmental Protection Inspector Group? Come to see the reporter’s investigation.
Dongjiang environmental protection is a listed company specializing in hazardous waste disposal, with more than 40 types of hazardous waste management qualifications. The time limit for rectification announced by Jiangxi provincial government is the end of April 2017. At the disposal site of dongjiang environmental protection Company in Fengcheng, Jiangxi Province, the person in charge of the company said that the rectification measures required by the central environmental protection inspector have been completed as scheduled, and the company is operating normally at present, and the control level of pollution discharge, especially dioxin, is the highest in China.
Dioxin is a fat-soluble substance with serious toxicity, and it is difficult to degrade and eliminate it naturally once it enters the natural environment. Its toxicity is 900 times higher than that of arsenic. It has a strong carcinogenic and teratogenic effect on human beings. The International Center for Research on Cancer has listed it as a human first-class carcinogen. In order to reduce the emission of waste gas including dioxin and sulfur dioxide, the national standard requires that the temperature of the first combustion chamber must be above 850 degrees and the temperature of the second combustion chamber must be above 1100 degrees.
Reporter:What happens if it’s below 850 degrees?
Luo Yansheng, General Manager of Jiangxi dongjiang environmental protection Company:If it is lower than this temperature, dioxins will be produced.
However, in the investigation, it was found that in the operating records of dongjiang environmental protection Company, especially in the late midnight to early morning, the temperature requirements of the first and second combustion chambers were often lower than 850 and 1100 degrees. In the operation records, the reporter also found that the concentrations of sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrogen chloride, etc. often exceed the standard, and even discharged through the bypass, which means that the waste gas is directly discharged into the atmosphere through the bypass pipeline without treatment.
However, in the online monitoring room of the enterprise, the reporter found that the data are normal, far below the emission limit. Why are all kinds of over-standard data recorded by hand normal on automatic online instruments? The reporter noticed that the parameter settings can be directly opened from the operator’s interface, and various parameters such as range and slope of monitoring exhaust gas can be modified.
Cai Zhirui, Head of Online Workshop of Jiangxi dongjiang environmental protection Company:Theoretically, it is.
As sewage companies can only browse monitoring data as operators, how did they get into the interface of administrator? The reporter asked the person in charge of environmental protection of dongjiang environmental protection Company to call the third-party operation and maintenance enterprise, and found that the password of the administrator had already been given to dongjiang environmental protection.
Dongjiang environmental protection staff:What is the administrator password?
Dongjiang environmental protection staff:Or sick.
Agent of Sike Company, a third-party operation and maintenance enterprise:Yes, you need to change it.
Xing Changcheng, Director of the Second Division of the State Environmental Protection Supervision Office:For the sake of temporary economic benefits, enterprises use this kind of false data to cover up an illegal fact that they are not operating normally. If this situation still exists until the inspector enters, isn’t it obvious fraud to let the false data of enterprises get away with it for a long time?
At present, Jiangxi fengcheng city has asked the enterprise to stop production and rectify. Many responsible persons of this enterprise, including legal persons, have been criminally detained by Jiangxi fengcheng city Public Security Bureau, and our station will further follow up the case handling.