Presentation For Vietnamese Vedan Company
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2. Introduction
3. Facts and Issues
- Vietnamese Vedan company, headquatered in Long Thanh district,
Dong Nai province, discharged untreated wastewater into the Thi Vai
river was polluting the environment.
- This action was discovered by the Environmental Police
Departmentcoordinated with Vietnam Ministry of Natural Resources
and Environment on the 4 thof July, 2008.
- According to estimates, Vedan company could discharge about
5000m3/day into the river.
4. Statements
- September 19, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment
announced the investigation of 10 insufficient attention or
mistakes of Vedan company.
5. 10 mistakes
- 1. Discharged wastewater was
- 10 times or more over permitted limit
- for manufacturing plant of starch .
- 2. Discharged wastewater was
- 10 times or more over permitted limit
- monosodium glutamate and lysine .
- 3. Discharged wastewater was over 10 times or more over
permitted limit for other plants.
- 4. Submitted incomplete survey data, and related documents
.
- 5 .No registration is committed to protecting the environment
of pig breeding farms.
6. 10 mistakes
- 6. No report evaluating the environmental impact that has built
and put into operation works for an investment project to increase
plants capacity of producing alkali-acid from 3,116 tons per month
to 6,600 tons per month.
- 7. No report evaluating the environmental impact that has built
and put into operation works for an investment project to increase
plants capacity from 5,000 tons of monosodium glutamate per month
to 15,000 tons per month, Starch from 2,000 tons per month to 4,000
tons per month, Lysine from 1,200 tons per month to 1400 tons per
month, powdered spices advanced 20 tons per month, PGA 700 tons per
year, distributed Vedagro 70,000 tons/year (solid), 280,000 tons
per year (l).
- 8. Discharged rotten smell, unpleasant odors directly into the
environment.
- 9. Managed hazardous wastewater in contravention of regulations
on protection of the environment.
- 10. Company discharged wastewater into water sources are not
properly located in the license provisions.
7. Decisions
- October 6, 2008, chief inspectors of the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environment made decision to sanction administrative
violations in environmental protection for Vedan company with total
fine of VND 267.5 millions, required an additional charge of more
than VND 127 billions for environmental protection.
8. Solution
- Satisfy environment indexes.
- Level of environmental responsibility should be proportional to
the environmental regulations of the territories.
- Protect environment effectively.
9.
- Improve quality of local communitys life
- Compensate residents whose health had been damaged.
10.
- Local authority should manage environmental treatment of
company.
- Follow the regulator of environmental treatments.
- Companies should be punished by its wrong actions.
- Increase local peoples awareness of companies actions to
environment.
11. BUSINESS ETHICS
- Because of lacking the relevant knowledge, attention, Vedan
cheated the local people and authorities.
- Designed a system to pretend that they followed the law.
- Anchored a large vessel to conceal the wastewater being pumped
out.
12.
- The highly toxic, hazardous waste violated the living creatures
in the river and the peoples health as well.
- Long and continual effect.
- Taking over 20 years to recover the river.
- Creating diseases, unemployment to the local community.
13.
- Profit has driven Vedan to break the law and to go against the
business ethics.
- Level of responsibility was notproportional.
14. Conclusion