Shanxi sewage levy charges exceeded 2.7 billion yuan

On January 8, it was learned from the Shanxi Province Environmental Protection Bureau that in 2007, the province’s sewage charges totaled more than 2.733 billion yuan, an increase of 76% over the previous year; among them, the total amount of coking production sewage charges collected by the Shanxi Provincial Coke Group Co. 1.84 billion yuan, an increase of more than one billion yuan over the previous year, creating a new record high for sewage charges.
In 2007, environmental protection departments at all levels in Shanxi Province adopted strict law enforcement measures to conscientiously implement the “Regulations on the Collection and Management of Pollutant Expenditure” and the “Administrative Measures on the Collection of Sewage Discharge Charges for Coke Production in Shanxi Province” to strictly inspect environmental violations and strengthen the discharge of pollutants to enterprises. The verification and verification of the sewage charges increased the intensity of the collection of sewage charges, and the sewage charges in the cities of the province have increased significantly. The number of cities in the province that have collected 100 million yuan in sewage charges has reached seven, which is more than double the number of last year. The total amount of sewage charges in Linyi, Luliang, and Taiyuan ranked among the top three, while the sewage charges in Luzhou City increased the most. In terms of coke sewage charges, the top three are Linyi, Luliang and Changzhi respectively. It is understood that a record high amount of sewage charges in Shanxi Province in 2007 has a lot to do with the province’s strong measures against some enterprises that have paid less sewage charges. For example, the joint disciplinary inspection department of the Provincial Environmental Protection Bureau timely corrected the irregularities in the coke production sewage charges in Yuncheng City and Luliang City, and issued a “Notice of Payment of Sewage Charges within the Time Limit” to 11 typical enterprises that did not pay the sewage charges directly. Month urged these companies to pay more than 20 million yuan. These typical examples have aroused strong reaction in the society and have greatly shocked the behavior of maliciously owed sewage charges.
According to another understanding, while the total amount of sewage charges and coking production and sewage charges have increased rapidly, half of the power plants in Shanxi Province achieved flue gas desulfurization in 2007, and nearly 180,000 tons of sulfur dioxide were reduced in the year, and the sulfur dioxide emission fee collected was about 180 million yuan. , a decrease of 39% over the same period last year.