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Expansion of City in Western China Poses Environmental, Safety Risks, Critics Say
2013-03-22 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: An ambitious plan to expand the western Chinese city of Lanzhou into a regional industrial hub is raising concerns over what critics call lax government oversight of the environmental and safety impacts, including worries that it will siphon huge amounts of water from an already parched region and devastate nearby mountains. Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province, is a city of 3.6 million and a gateway to Tibet and the Xinjiang region. It is known as one of the most polluted cities in China, and...
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