Hearing of the extraordinary fishery pollution case in leting, Hebei Province

Introduction: it is reported that at 9:00 a.m on December 17, the Tianjin Maritime Court held a court session to hear 18 people including sun Youli's lawsuit against 11 enterprises including Qian'an No.1 paper mill On November 17, 2000, the headline of China Ocean news was "20 million people were damaged by sewage, and the fishermen in leting wanted to sue the officials" In the first ten days of October 2000, industrial sewage from papermaking, chemical industry, mining and other enterprises in Qian'an suddenly poured down the Luanhe river course and luanle irrigation canal, and poured into six farms, such as sun Youli As a result, clams, clams, clams, razors, barracuda, bass and other beach shellfish and fish that were about to mature and go on the market died in batches, most of them were extinct and suffered heavy losses Therefore, sun Youli and 18 other fishermen sued 11 enterprises including Qian'an paper mill to Tianjin Maritime Court on May 22, 2001 On May 23, Tianjin Maritime Court filed a case for acceptance The maritime trial court is responsible for hearing the case and forms a collegial panel according to law At 9:00 a.m on December 17, Tianjin Maritime Court held a public hearing on the case Sun Youli, Gao Weihua, Xu Shutian, Wang Guichen, Lu yuebo and other representatives of the plaintiff filed a lawsuit on behalf of 18 plaintiffs, requesting that the defendant be ordered to eliminate the pollution hazards, stop discharging sewage to the downstream of Luanhe River, remove the risks of pollution to aquaculture, and jointly and severally compensate the plaintiff The economic loss caused by the pollution of fishery waters is 20 million yuan The defendant's 11 enterprises, including Qian'an calligraphy and painting paper factory, lianwang Group Co., Ltd., Tangshan Jiluan Paper Industry Co., Ltd., Hebei Huafeng Paper Industry Co., Ltd and Xima iron mine, came to court in absentia according to law Xima iron mine withdrew from the court because it was determined by the court that it had nothing to do with the case The court provides evidence by the plaintiff and the defendant respectively around several focuses of the case The focus of the dispute in the case mainly includes five aspects: first, whether the 11 enterprises are all legal defendants of the case; second, whether the defendant does discharge pollutants to Luanhe River; third, whether the losses listed by the plaintiff exist; fourth, whether the plaintiff's losses and the defendant's emissions have a direct causal relationship; fifth, the plaintiff's request Whether the amount of compensation is reasonable After the Court confirmed the legal identity of the defendant, the plaintiff's lawyer provided the court with a series of evidences on whether the defendant discharged pollutants, including audio-visual VCD with a length of about 4 minutes, photos and schematic diagrams of polluted waters, and test reports of relevant technical departments The defendant raised some doubts about this and provided evidence Both sides held their own opinions on whether the plaintiff's loss existed Tianjin Maritime Court said that the case belongs to the case of pollution compensation dispute caused by production pollution of coastal enterprises in the waters of open sea, which is a group action involving more injured parties and more injured parties The case is complex and the legal relationship is difficult to determine, which is the largest case involving the subject matter accepted by Tianjin Maritime Court at present The maritime court will further investigate the case and hold another hearing on January 15, 2001 (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: