After receiving a fine of 30 million yuan from the People's Court of Xinluo District, Longyan City on January 30 due to a sewage leak accident at Zijinshan Gold and Copper Mine in July 2010, Zijin Mining announced on February 15 that it had recently received a To respond to the notification, 852 villagers in Xinyi City, Guangdong Province, sued Xinyi Zijin Mining Company and Xinyi Baoyuan Mining Company and its controlling party Zijin Mining and related business units, demanding compensation of approximately 170 million yuan. According to the latest information released by the Guangdong Xinyi government on the 17th, the Xinyi municipal government and the victims have filed lawsuits against 7 defendants such as Zijin Mining. The amount involved in the case exceeds RMB 300 million.

This is another case in which the public image of Zijin Mining, which has long been notoriously famous, has been counted on numerous occasions. According to media statistics, Zijin Mining has had at least 11 environmental accident-related accidents or records in 13 years. Why is Zijin Mining repeated pollution incidents? Why Zijin Mining can easily resolve? One legal person who requested anonymity told the China Economic Times on the 18th that in addition to the problem of collusion between officials and businesses that has been disclosed by the media, the low cost of the violation has also exposed the problems in China’s environmental protection. This has led to Zijin Mining repeatedly. One of the important cruxes of making mistakes.

As an example of the leaking accident handling results in the previous month, Zijin Mining only received a fine of 30 million yuan from the court, which is almost insignificant for a large company that has a total assets of several billion yuan and was once rated as a global top 500 company. . In stark contrast to this, recently, the judge of Ecuador issued a $ 9.5 billion fine for the sky-high price, and one of the world’s largest energy companies, Chevron Petroleum, will swallow the most expensive environmental pollution case. The ticket.

In comparison, China’s environmental costs are underestimated, and companies that have caused pollution incidents often know that they must be fined for illegal activities. This is precisely because companies’ environmental protection investment costs are higher than the fines, and the illegal costs are too low. The indulgence of the government even supported it, leading companies to take risks and frequent pollution incidents.

"For some local judiciary departments, the discretionary power is too large, the standards are ambiguous, and there is a large space for power flexibility. After the environmental protection issue occurs, some local judicial departments are undermining the law-breaking units under the influence of factors such as local government pressure. The penalties are often based on the minimum standard, resulting in the illegal costs of illegal enterprises are too low, and these companies are also fearless.” The legal community said to this reporter.

If Zijin Mining has been heavily penalized by related departments after an environmental accident, the illegal cost will be the company’s profit for the whole year or several years of profit. It is believed that it will not blindly pursue the low cost of environmental protection costs and will not be repeated again and again. The three places repeatedly violated regulations.

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