Prevention of tainting of pollution monitoring should be introduced into public supervision

According to reports, not long ago, Ningxia Qiyuan Pharmaceutical was found to be operating abnormally in the pollution control facilities and suspected of fraud in data, that is, when the equipment was out of service and the smoke emitted from the smoke from the boiler stack changed significantly, the on-line monitoring data did not change. Not only in Ningxia, last year, Shandong Province investigated and punished 17 companies that had fraudulently used automatic environmental monitoring data.

Probably after 2005, almost every province began to spend huge amounts of money on building an "environmental information data platform" due to the wave of the Internet. The information that these platform constructions often pass is that the state-controlled polluting enterprises and the provincial-controlled polluting enterprises are equipped with on-line monitors whether they are wading or air-related. With these online monitors, the data is synchronized directly to the environmental protection department, and the company cannot modify it.

At that time, some environmental protection organizations appealed that these data held by the government and enterprises should be open to the Internet at the same time so that everyone can view it at any time, instead of sending information only to the office of the environmental protection department. If you do not let the public know, it is difficult to prevent fraud. In fact, we have seen the concerns of environmental organizations are becoming a reality. At the cost of billions of dollars, the online monitoring network that monitors tens of thousands of pollution sources across the country has become a decoration, and some unscrupulous companies are just as easy to skimp on. They only need a needle valve or a variable resistor. You can make the data beautiful.

In order to ensure that the data monitored by enterprises and governments is not fraudulent, first of all, it is necessary to increase law enforcement -- the environmental protection department must not only care about the monitoring data of the company, but also conduct spot checks on the specific conditions of the monitoring site at any time, and must impose heavy penalties on monitoring fraud. Even if the penalty to the company's loss and bankruptcy, the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Environmental Protection had previously issued a fine of 17 million yuan for the Wuxi Huilian Thermal Power Co., Ltd., which had fraudulent data, but such large-scale fines were often rare in reality.

Li Keqiang recently proposed at the work conference on energy conservation, emission reduction and climate change to crack down on illegal activities such as illegal spitting, excessive discharge, and evasion monitoring, and to supervise dereliction of duty, to relevant companies, organizations, and persons responsible. Should be severely punished. The monitoring of counterfeiting as a sneaky way of evading surveillance should be handled as severe as environmental pollution accidents, so that it can play a defensive role.

In addition to strengthening law enforcement, another non-negligible measure is "publicization of environmental information." There are three general approaches. First, the regional environmental data monitored by the government and the self-tested emission data of the enterprise are completely and comprehensively open. They are reported to open media at any time so that ordinary people can quickly view and evaluate the data. The second is to encourage environmental protection organizations and environmental protection volunteers to carry out various types of environmental self-monitoring activities, and to compare and analyze these environmental self-test data with government and enterprise monitoring data. The third is to encourage the public to report, question, and investigate the quality of the environment in question at any time.

Today's era is an era of scientific popularization. All kinds of monitoring instruments are fully portable and foolproof. Portable water quality detectors and portable air detectors are everywhere and everyone can use them. At any time, the public can come up with “test weapons,” and they will measure the environmental quality of environmental points they want to know. Then they compare it with the data of the government and the enterprises, and the results are clear at a glance.

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