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Shandong reservoir pollution also known Ninety-seven farmers from Lianyungang v. Jinyimeng Paper and Linshu Chemical Plant

Country/Territory
China
Type of court
National - higher court
Date
Apr 16, 2002
Source
UNEP, InforMEA
Court name
Jiangsu Higher People’s Court
Seat of court
Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province
Judge
Zhou Jianming, Jin Haili, Liu Yuemei
Reference number
No. 043 (2002), Last Instance, Civil Division, Jiangsu [ (2002) 苏民终字第043号]
Language
Chinese
Subject
Livestock, Water
Keyword
Agricultural development Agriculture and environment Hazardous substances Inland waters Waste management Agricultural commodities Agricultural land Access-to-justice
Abstract

The plaintiffs are a collective of ninety seven fish farmers from the counties of Donghai and Ganyu in Jiangsu province and Linshu county in the Shandong province. Following several major pollution incidents of the biggest artificial reservoir in Jiangsu and of the main source of water in Lianyungang between 1999 and 2000, the plaintiffs demanded compensation from the State Environmental Protection Agency and from the Linshu county government. Following the refusal from those administrations to compensate them, the plaintiffs brought their case to the court by suing the two companies responsible for the pollution incident.

In first instance, the Lianyungang Intermediate People’s Court found that the causality link between the pollution of the water reserves and of the destruction of the fist livestock was established and condemned the two companies to compensate the loss of the plaintiffs.

This decision was upheld by the Jiangsu Higher People’s Court in 2003.

(Contribution: Case provided by Professor Tianbao QIN, Tang HE, and Han GAO, Research Institute of Environmental Law, Wuhan University, China)

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