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Hau Giang wants to revoke Lee & Man Pulp Project

Created On: 29/10/2019 11:26:42

While the Lee & Man Paper Project is still facing issues related to environmental pollution, the Lee & Man Pulp Project is being proposed to be recovered by Hau Giang.

Report to the Ministry of Planning and Investment on the implementation of large-scale, large-use foreign direct investment (FDI) projects, Hau Giang province has officially mentioned the request for revocation of certificates. received investment for the bleaching pulp production factory project, with an output of 330,000 tons / year by investor Lee & Man. The reason given by Hau Giang is that this project has been granted investment certificates for a long time but has not been implemented, violating the provisions of the Land Law and the Investment Law.

Having been granted investment certificate since mid 2007, then adjusted in June 2011, Lee & Man Pulp Project has a total registered capital of 348.7 million USD, scale of 330,000 tons / year. As planned, the project will be built in October 2013 so that by the end of 2015, it will come into operation. However, due to slow implementation, in mid-2016, Lee & Man was forced to apply for an extension of the implementation schedule until May 2017, completed in August 2018. However, right at the time of the commitment to begin the construction of the Project - in May 2017 - Lee & Man once again unexpectedly requested to temporarily implement the Project. And this time, it is not only 1 but 2 years, there are plans for the end of 2018. That is, a project has been granted investment certificates, but until 11 years later has not been implemented and even, it is not known whether or not to continue.

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The "argument" given by Lee & Man, is that the Group is currently investing in two projects in Hau Giang (one is Lee & Man Paper Factory, the other is Pulp - PV Factory), so it is focusing all its resources on too. process of running a paper mill test, testing market demand, perfecting technology to comply with environmental management requirements, ensuring maximum production operation without causing serious impact on the surrounding environment. .

Moreover, according to Lee & Man, the investment in a pulp factory requires a higher investment in capital, technology equipment, waste treatment processes and the stringent requirements of national technical regulations. about the waste. Also according to this group, with the environmental problems of the paper mill, Lee & Man must be very careful when building the pulp factory, must consult with the ministries, localities and units. relevant before deciding whether to continue investing or stopping.
 
 


Meanwhile, Hau Giang said that, with the land lease, even being granted a land use right certificate of up to 40.8 hectares since 2008, so far Lee & Man has not implemented the project. is violating the provisions of the Land Law. Similarly, Lee & Man's application for postponement of development “The project is not implemented, the use of land is not effective, affecting the land use situation of industrial parks, concentrated industrial clusters of the province, has not gone. go into operation according to the schedule registered in the investment certificate ”. The actual situation of Lee & Man Pulp Project was evaluated by Hau Giang as such. And based on this fact, Hau Giang has officially proposed the revocation of the investment certificate for this nearly US $ 350 million investment project.

Although Hau Giang only bases on the violations related to the Investment Law and the Land Law to propose the revocation of this project, in fact, many opinions believe that one of the reasons for Hau Giang's concern. That is the risk of environmental pollution.

Currently, Lee & Man's first project - the $ 300 million Paper Project - is in the process of running tests to check environmental parameters. However, right from the start of the project, many people expressed their concerns that these projects would "destroy" the Hau River, affecting the environment and aquatic resources of the region. this. Even there have been proposals to stop implementing Lee & Man's projects in Hau Giang, especially after the Formosa incident in the waters of the four central provinces.

The argument that Lee & Man has affirmed, is that the ongoing project is only a paper production project, so it is not too concerned about environmental issues, the discharge of caustic soda into rivers and the sea ... However, with the project The production of pulp is different. This is a production area with a very high risk of causing environmental pollution, many localities have said no to projects in this field.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has also said that it should consider stopping the implementation of Lee & Man Pulp Project. Now Hau Giang has made initial recommendations about the project revocation. The reason why the project is too late in implementation is enough to put an end to this project, not to mention the risk of eye pollution causing environmental pollution for the Hau River area.
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