Rare Earth Environmental Protection Verification "&Nbsp" Still Faces Two Queries.

According to the survey conducted by journalists, although the national environmental protection department has checked the rare earth environmental protection nationwide in September, the enterprises attach great importance to it. However, our country's rare earth environmental protection still faces two big questions: no specific punishment measures and no standardized technology and equipment promotion. The industry believes that there is still much work to be done to really put the environmental policy in place.

Environmental verification "real"

"Although there are also" old rivers and lakes "do not think so, but we think that this round of inspection will be very strict. Turning to the upcoming environmental verification, Liao Liang, general manager of Sichuan Mianning Fangxing rare earth Co., Ltd., Jiangxi copper group (600362), said in an interview with the newspaper that, as far as we know, the whole industry is more or less preparing and correcting for this purpose, including reorganizing the EIA procedures and upgrading. production Equipment, installation of environmental protection devices.

In April this year, the Ministry of environmental protection issued the circular on Environmental Protection Verification of rare earth enterprises, which stipulates that after September 1st, the expert group will carry out nationwide environmental protection verification of rare earth enterprises. Prior to this, enterprises should carry out self-examination and self correction first, and accept provincial preliminary inspections in advance. Before September 1st, the provinces will submit the list of qualified enterprises and materials submitted to the Ministry of environmental protection. The Ministry of environmental protection will organize the environmental verification expert group to review and conduct spot checks. After the completion of the review work, the Ministry of environmental protection will announce the list of rare-earth enterprises that meet the requirements, and send copies to the Ministry of Commerce and other relevant departments to provide relevant support for relevant regulatory measures.

Reporters from Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Sichuan and other rare earth enterprises and industry associations learned that at present, striving to enter the qualified list has become the consistent goal of all enterprises, and some smelting enterprises have even stopped production for technological transformation and installation of environmental protection equipment.

Lin Pinguang, Deputy Secretary General of the Jiangxi Rare Earth Industry Association, told reporters that this year, enterprises pay special attention to environmental protection work and have a positive attitude for two reasons. First, China's attention to the rare earth industry has greatly deterred. Enterprises are worried that if they fail to enter the qualified list, they will face the fate of annexation under the pressure of future policies. Second, after the soaring prices of rare earth products, rare earth enterprises with high profits in a short period of time already have economic strength and environmental protection. Prior to the continuous release of the central industrial policy, the industry realized that after extensive and destructive development, the environmental protection and ecological restoration of the rare earth industry Government Work is inevitable.

Question still "two no"

Although the verification is stricter than before, journalists still know that there are two missing points in the verification work: "no specific punishment measures" and "no standard technical equipment guidance".

First of all, enterprises generally reflect that no specific and detailed punishment measures have been seen so far, which is likely to weaken the final implementation of the policy.

Although the "verification notice" indicates that the environmental protection departments at all levels shall not approve the environmental impact assessment documents of the new (expansion or expansion) projects for failing to submit verification applications, fail to pass verification and falsification, and refuse to accept the application for environmental verification of their listing, nor shall they issue any environmental compliance or certification document in compliance with the requirements. But the industry says it is hardly a threat to businesses that do not need new projects or need financing.

"At present, the excess capacity of smelting and separation in China is very obvious. Most enterprises can not fully purchase rare earth raw ore. What about expansion? In addition, most enterprises are small and there is no demand for listing financing. Insiders said that before the introduction of the detailed punishment measures, most enterprises could not see the consequences even if they did not meet the standards.

Second, up to now, standardization technology for controlling rare earth mining and smelting pollutant emissions has not yet achieved large-scale industrialization. That is to say, enterprises are required to install environmental protection equipment, but they do not get authoritative standardized guidance. Therefore, in the rectification, we are faced with blindness and randomness.

"Without standardized technical guidance, many enterprises can only rely on their own relationship with some tertiary institutions and introduce some environmental protection technologies." An industry authority yesterday told the newspaper that due to the particularity of the production of rare earth products, some of the technology is still in the laboratory stage and is not perfect. As a result, the embarrassing situation that enterprises have paid high prices but failed to meet the emission standards and need to be re invested has emerged.

The industry appealed to the relevant departments, including the Ministry of environmental protection, while putting forward pollutant emission standards, we should give more detailed guidance to enterprises and really help enterprises. High efficiency And invest economically in environmental protection.