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1 Abr 2014

Autor:
Benjamin Haas, Bloomberg

China Protests Seen Halting Sinopec Chemicals Plant

Construction of a paraxylene, or PX, plant in Maoming city will not go ahead if a majority of residents oppose it, the official Xinhua News Agency reported…citing a city official…More than 1,000 residents protested…in opposition to the plant being built by the local government and Sinopec Maoming Co., a unit of state-owned…Sinopec Group…Photos of the demonstration…showed an overturned car on the street and a crowd of people raising clenched fists…“There is no doubt the paraxylene projects are not very popular in China now,” Wang Zhiqing, chairman of Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co., said at a press conference…The company is conducting a feasibility study on building a 1 million-metric-ton PX project at its own industrial park near Shanghai, Wang said. The refinery in Maoming was slated to produce 600,000 tons, according to the Maoming Municipal Economic and Trade Bureau. Lv Dapeng, a…spokesman for Sinopec Group, didn’t answer two calls…seeking comment.

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