Minister admits fault in mass fish death

April 29, 2016 | 09:00

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Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha has admitted his faults in the massive wave of dying fish incident in the central Vietnam, according to newswire Dantri.vn.

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha

“The mass fish death is an environmental disaster, happening for the first time in Vietnam. The local authorities have made efforts to deal with the incident, however the results have yet to satisfy the people due to the slow investigations of the local authorities and relevant government agencies. Being a minister, I admit my faults in the incident,” Tran Hong Ha, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment said in the framework of the visit to Ha Tinh – one of the affected central provinces.

On April 28, a group of inspectors, led by Ha, arrived at Ha Tinh’s Ky Anh district to take water and sediment samples to find the cause of the mass fish deaths. The group also checked the waste water treatment system of the Taiwanese Formosa Group’s Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Ltd.

Ha stated that collecting new water and sediment modes is to compare to the previous results.

“Vietnamese authorities will concentrate find the culprit causing the above disaster. We hope people will believe in us,” Ha added.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, in collaboration with scientists, will work with companies in the province’s Vung Ang economic zone that discharge wastewater into the sea in order to collect the information about their wastewater volume. Besides, the local authorities will supervise the waste water volume discharging into the sea through online camera systems.

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