"Help needed?I am scared." - Environmental blogger 'B.Y.' in protest of PetroChina chemical plant
A 20-something blogger in China has attracted regime attention for appealing to President Obama to help save China's environment.
On May 7 the blogger, who goes by the initials "B.Y.," posted an online petition on the White House website "We the People." The petition asked for support against the state-owned corporation PetroChina's plans to build a new chemical plant. Located 25 miles outside the capital city of Chengdu, in Sichuan Province, it would produce 10 million tons of oil and 800,000 tons of ethylene per year.
Local residents are expressing concern the future plant's location is dangerously close to a seismic fault line and that once up and running production will exacerbate air and water pollution.
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