Oil Spill threatens Yellow River
About 1,000 tonnes of oil sludge has contaminated farmland and the Luohe River in northern Shaanxi province after a recycling pool at a sewage treatment plant collapsed last Sunday, the China Daily said. More than 2,000 people have been scrambling to clean up the mess and eight containment belts have been set up downstream from the spill.
In January, two tributaries of the Yellow River were "seriously polluted" by an oil spill after a pipeline operated by China's largest oil producer, China National Petroleum, ruptured.
"At present the sludge in the river has been effectively controlled and we will make efforts to clean up the contamination in the farmland and valley," local government official Wang Hongli was quoted as saying.
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