January 14, 2012
Vietnam aims to raise its coal output to 55-58 million tons in 2015 from an estimated 48.9 million tons this year in an effort to meet demand for fast-growing electricity production, the government said. Output is projected to rise to more than 75 million tons by 2030 thanks to the exploitation of new sites, [...]
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March 19, 2011
A man fishes from an exposed mud flat on the Red River in Hanoi. Riparian communities have complained that the shrinking waterway has become increasingly shallow and polluted in recent years. For thousands of years, poor subsistence-level communities have survived on the bounty of the Red River. In the past year or so, their [...]
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January 23, 2011
Scientists urge for urgent action as more than one-fourth of water wells in the Red River Delta are contaminated with the carcinogenic chemicals A resident in Vietnam’s Red River Delta shows skin lesions caused by arsenic poisoning. Scientists have warned against an “alarming” contamination of arsenic and other toxic chemicals in the Delta’s groundwater. [...]
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November 14, 2009
Vinacomin will soon begin exploring and extracting coal in the Red River Delta on a trial basis, a group senior official said last week. The delta is also one of Vietnam’s richest tracts of agricultural land The group believes that roughly 210 billion tonnes of coal lie beneath the Red River Delta, with up to 90 [...]
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October 4, 2009
LookAtVietnam – A cultural, sports and tourism festival will be held for the first time in the Red River Delta province of Thai Binh from October 14-16 that will gather all provinces in the region. According to Vice Chairwoman of Thai Binh province Cao Thi Hai, preparations have been completed, and the province is ready [...]
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October 3, 2009
Coal mining in the northern province of Quang Ninh. A plan to dig up the Hong (Red) River Delta for massive amounts of coal has drawn reaction from experts who say the plan is unfeasible and would cause an environment disaster if implemented. âExploitation of the deltaâs coal basin would sink the whole region and [...]
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September 28, 2009
An interministerial council agreed on September 23 to recommend Government approval of a plan to exploit 210 billion tons of coal believed to lie beneath the Red River Delta. Vinacomin plans to test the technologies simultaneously at various depths. The first test project will begin in 2010 in Khoai Chau, Hung Yen at a cost [...]
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September 26, 2009
Thousands of readers have commented on VietNamNet’s recent reports on a huge coal mining project under consideration for development in the Red River Delta. A coal mining site in Quang Ninh province.LookAtVietnam – Thousands of readers have commented on VietNamNet’s recent reports on a huge coal mining project under consideration for development in the Red [...]
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September 25, 2009
To ensure a two-way flow of information on the Red River coal basin scheme, VietNamNet presents comments by the director of Red River Energy Company, which compiled the project. A coal mining site in Quang Ninh.VietNamNet Bridge – To ensure a two-way flow of information on the Red River Delta coal basin development project, VietNamNet here [...]
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September 18, 2009
VietNamNet continues its coverage of debate over the Red River Delta coal basin scheme with analysis by a leading geologist and a National Assembly deputy. Exploring 210-billion-tonne coal basin: big potential, high risk Doctor of Geology Nguyen Sy Quy, former Ministry of Industry expert and a member of the the Vietnam Union of Scientific and Technological [...]
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