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posted by janrinok on Saturday July 30 2016, @01:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the cough-go-cough-cough-away dept.

http://www.china.org.cn/china/2016-07/29/content_38982086.htm

Beijing is offering cash rewards as an incentive for chemical plants that leave the nation's capital. Eighty hazardous chemical plants should be out of the city by 2018, the local work safety watchdog said on Thursday.

The watchdog said it had asked plants to relocate voluntarily and offered a cash bonus, calculated on a set of criteria including the size of the facility, number of employees, tax contributions, safety record and production process. Early applicants will get extra rewards.

The watchdog aims to wave goodbye to 60 plants this year and 20 more between 2017 and 2018. It did not disclose the exact amount of rewards it would pay out.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2016, @01:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2016, @01:58AM (#381840)

    I'd exit out just as fast as I could, no cash reward necessary.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2016, @02:05AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2016, @02:05AM (#381844)

      And that's why America isn't great anymore, lazy work-shy fool.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday July 30 2016, @02:18AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 30 2016, @02:18AM (#381851) Journal

      I'd exit out just as fast as I could, no cash reward necessary.

      Well, if you aren't the sort who pisses their pants at the word, "chemical", chemical plants turn out be pretty awesome places to visit. It's like visiting a giant integrated circuit made of plumbing. The bigger ones are some of the more sophisticated structures ever built by humanity.

      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 30 2016, @02:45AM

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 30 2016, @02:45AM (#381858) Journal

        Never looked at it that way - but yeah. I guess so. I've never worked in a chemical plant, but I've visited many. Some can be rather daunting. Before you're allowed in the gate, you get indoctrinated. "If you hear an alarm, you RUN LIKE HELL to the closet evacuation point!" You're seldom given time and opportunity to stand back, and look at the big picture. Mostly, you only get to see the parts of the picture that management wants you to see.

        • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2016, @03:31AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2016, @03:31AM (#381867)

          Well aren't you a lucky duck. I'm never allowed past the gate, because I have one of those faces that everybody hates. You know how it is when you're not black enough. You never get invited in a chemical plant, that's for sure.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by rleigh on Saturday July 30 2016, @12:48PM

      by rleigh (4887) on Saturday July 30 2016, @12:48PM (#381937) Homepage

      You can't be serious. If you did find yourself in one, not going on a tour of the place would be a wasted opportunity. They can be fascinating. And in the first world, they are pretty damned safe.

      Working in a big plant is amazing. Walking through the miles of pipework and tanks, with all their associated valves, pumps, sensors, refrigeration units, PLCs, inspection ports, equipment the size of multi-storey buildings and whatnot is a sight to behold. They are engineering marvels, and are one of pinnacles of human ingenuity in shaping our world though control of industrial processes to provide for our needs. They are humbling. The sheer physical scale, and the scale of our ambition to create them, make you feel small, like a small worker ant scurrying through passageways in vast living metal hive of our own creation. And they are empowering. Being one of the people running them, part of the process, making them work, is very satisfying. When I left at the end of the shift, I left satisfied that I'd done a small but important part in keeping the plant, and the world at large, running. Being a part of something bigger than oneself. Nowadays, sitting front of a screen writing code all day, I get paid several times more but find it much less fulfilling.

      People who have never experienced working in *real* industry seem to have some sort of bizarre impression that they are awful places, with bad working conditions, pollution and dangerous health risks. Maybe in the third world. They can be some of the most fun and exciting places to be, with great camerarderie, where you do work hard but where you can also have a great time whilst doing so. They can be dangerous, but that's why you undergo training, and have the right equipment to work there safely. The amount of attention to that in the place I worked was huge, but that's because it's important. Given the choice between sitting at a desk and doing something real which requires some personal responsibility for yourself and others, I'd definitely go back given the right opportunity.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2016, @02:02AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2016, @02:02AM (#381843)

    Time to pollute Oldupai Gorge with nuclear waste!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2016, @02:08AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2016, @02:08AM (#381846)

      Better than polluting New Upai Gorge.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2016, @02:39AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2016, @02:39AM (#381857)

        Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge [subterraneanpress.com]

        A team of alien archaeologists visit Oldupai Gorge in Tanzania. Among other things, they discover that a man was once bribed to dump nuclear waste in the gorge.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2016, @07:57AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2016, @07:57AM (#381908)

      Unfortunately chemical plants need power to work, roads to move production and qualified workers.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2016, @10:07PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 30 2016, @10:07PM (#382078)

      Africa has a long history of nuclear horrors. The remains of the Oklo reactor still havn't been cleaned up, for example.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Gravis on Saturday July 30 2016, @02:20AM

    by Gravis (4596) on Saturday July 30 2016, @02:20AM (#381852)

    the only thing they are doing is moving the problem of unenforced environmental regulation to other cities. if they actually wanted to improve the city, they would force every plant to strictly comply with existing environmental regulation or be shut down until they do. the problem with doing that is they think it interferes with their goal of economic dominance. the irony is if they actually made their various plants environmentally sound, they wouldn't have to try to change the perception that they are polluting like crazy.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday July 30 2016, @02:31AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday July 30 2016, @02:31AM (#381856) Journal

      the only thing they are doing is moving the problem of unenforced environmental regulation to other cities.

      "Mission accomplished" as far as Beijing is concerned. There's also the matter of zoning and tax revenue. I bet the city planners think they can put something much better in that space as replacement.