Shandong plans to carry out carbon emission environmental assessment pilot projects in key industries such as chemical industry

A few days ago, the Shandong Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment issued the "Implementation Opinions on Strengthening the Prevention and Control of the Source of the Ecological Environment of Construction Projects with High Energy Consumption and High Emissions" to promote green transformation and high-quality economic development
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According to the "Implementation Opinions", Shandong Province will implement strict prevention at the source, strict management of the process, and severe penalties for the "two highs" projects, and promote the coordinated control of pollution and carbon reduction.

Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau and relevant municipal administrative examination and approval service bureaus:

In order to implement the "Guiding Opinions of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment on Strengthening the Prevention and Control of the Source of the Ecological Environment of High Energy Consumption and High Emission Construction Projects" (Environmental Assessment [2021] No.
45) and the "General Office of the People's Government of Shandong Province on Strengthening the "Two Highs" Project Management Notice (Luzheng Banzi [2021] No.
57) requires the implementation of the following implementation opinions on strengthening the prevention and control of the ecological environment of the province's high energy-consuming and high-emission (hereinafter referred to as "two highs") construction projects
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Implement the "three lines and one order" and strengthen planning and environmental impact assessment constraints

(1) Strictly implement the requirements of ecological environment zoning management and control
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All cities should give full play to the fundamental role of the "three lines and one single" (red line for ecological protection, bottom line for environmental quality, online resource utilization, and ecological environment access list) in optimizing the pattern of regional development and protection and improving the level of refined management of ecological and environmental protection.

(2) Efforts to improve the effectiveness of planning environmental impact assessment constraints
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The municipal ecological environment bureaus shall guide and urge relevant comprehensive plans and special plans for industry and energy related to the "two highs" industries to carry out planning environmental assessment work in accordance with the law, and strictly plan environmental assessment reviews in terms of implementation timing, industrial structure, planning layout, and development scale.

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Strictly evaluate and approve the environment, and control the environmental access of the "two highs" projects

(3) Strict environmental access
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New construction, reconstruction, and expansion of "two highs" projects must comply with the laws and regulations of ecological environment protection and relevant statutory planning, and meet the total emission control of key pollutants, the peak carbon emission target, the ecological environment access list, the relevant planning environmental assessment and corresponding construction projects Environmental access conditions, environmental assessment document approval principles and other requirements

(4) Strictly reduce and replace pollutants
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The “two high” projects with newly added major pollutant emissions should be formulated in accordance with the relevant requirements of the "Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment on Strengthening the Supervision and Management of Regional Reduction Measures for Construction Projects in Key Industries" (Environmental Environment Assessment [2020] No.

(5) Reasonably determine the approval authority
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The environmental assessment and approval departments of each city should carefully sort out the environmental assessment and approval levels of the "two highs" projects and ethylene, copper, lead, zinc and silicon smelting projects with high environmental impact or high environmental risks, and scientifically evaluate the approval capabilities

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Improve the level of prevention and control, and promote the coordinated control of pollution reduction and carbon reduction in the "two highs" industries

(6) Improve the level of cleaner production and pollution prevention
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New construction, reconstruction, and expansion of "two highs" projects should use industry advanced technology, green energy-saving technology and equipment, unit product material consumption, energy consumption, water consumption, etc.

(7) Implement carbon emission reduction substitution
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To formulate and publish alternative measures for carbon emission reduction in our province.

(8) Promote the inclusion of the environmental impact assessment of carbon emissions into the EIA system
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In accordance with the unified deployment of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, pilot projects of carbon emission environmental impact assessment of the “two highs” projects in the chemical, steel and other industries are carried out, and cities are encouraged to expand the scope of pilot industries in accordance with local conditions, and to implement relevant regional and industry carbon peak action plans and clean Policy requirements such as energy substitution, clean transportation, total coal consumption control, etc.
, coordinate source identification of pollutants and carbon emissions, source strength accounting, feasibility demonstration and plan comparison of pollution reduction and carbon reduction measures, and propose the optimal plan for coordinated control
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To guide and promote the implementation of pilot projects of coordinated pollution reduction and carbon reduction in Jinan and Qingdao, and pilot projects of carbon capture, storage, and comprehensive utilization in Dongying
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Strictly permit pollution discharge and strengthen the supervision and law enforcement of "two highs" projects

(9) Strictly issue and manage pollutant discharge permits
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In the process of reviewing the issuance of pollution permits for "two highs" enterprises, the municipal pollutant emission permit issuing departments shall comprehensively verify the implementation of various ecological environmental protection measures and regional reduction measures in the environmental assessment and approval documents, and cancel or change the emission reduction transfer unit in accordance with the law.
Of the pollution permit
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The “two highs” enterprises that implement key management of pollutant discharge permits must strengthen on-site inspections, and will not issue approvals for those that do not meet the requirements in accordance with the law
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It is necessary to strengthen the inspection of the quality of the pollution discharge permits of the "two highs" enterprises and the submission of the implementation reports, and urge the enterprises to do a good job in accounting records, implementation reports, self-monitoring, and disclosure of environmental information
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It is necessary to urge the "two high" enterprises that have been rectified within the time limit for the discharge permit to speed up the completion of the rectification task, and if they find that the rectification has not been completed on time or that there is an unlicensed discharge, they shall be investigated and punished strictly in accordance with the law
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(10) Strengthen law enforcement and supervision based on pollutant discharge permits
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The municipal ecological and environmental bureaus shall include the "two highs" enterprises in the daily law enforcement supervision of "double random, one open", increase inspections of the "two highs" enterprises' pollution discharge and environmental information disclosure in accordance with the law, and supervise the implementation of the certificate holders.
Various requirements for pollution discharge permit management
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Severely crack down on all kinds of illegal activities such as unlicensed and non-licensed pollutant discharge by "two high" enterprises, and timely expose typical cases of violations of the pollutant discharge permit system
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Consolidate work responsibilities and ensure that the policy takes effect

(11) Establish a management ledger
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Municipal Eco-Environmental Bureaus shall organize a dragnet investigation of the environmental assessment documents accepted and approved since the "13th Five-Year Plan" and the "two highs" projects included in the plan by relevant departments, and establish an ecological environment management account for the "two highs" projects (see Attachment), submitted to the Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment before August 20, 2021, and updated at the end of each quarter
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The province’s "two highs" projects are managed in accordance with the 16 high-energy-consuming and high-emission link investment projects identified in the "Shandong Province "two highs" project management catalog".
Follow-up, the state and the province have new regulations on the scope of the "two highs" project management , From its provisions
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(12) Strengthen supervision and inspection
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The municipal ecological and environmental bureaus shall establish a working mechanism for the supervision and inspection of the environmental impact assessment and pollutant discharge permits for the “two highs” projects, increase the technical review of the environmental assessment documents of the “two highs” projects that have been approved, and the provincial level will review the newly approved “two highs” since 2021.
Projects are reviewed one by one, and any fraudulent behaviors such as plagiarism of environmental impact assessment documents, omissions of key contents, and errors in data conclusions are found, they shall be dealt with strictly in accordance with laws and regulations
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For those already under construction, the focus will be on whether the ecological and environmental protection measures are implemented at the same time and whether there are major changes
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For those that have been put into production or use, it is also necessary to focus on the implementation of the environmental impact assessment documents and the approved ecological environmental protection measures and the reduction and substitution of key pollutant areas, as well as the application and implementation of pollution permits
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Problems found in the daily supervision and inspection of the "two highs" enterprises should be recorded in the "two highs" project ecological environment management account in time
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(13) Strengthen accountability
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Municipal Eco-Environmental Bureaus shall strictly investigate violations of laws and regulations such as “two highs” projects, “building before approval”, failure to implement environmental impact assessment and “three simultaneous” requirements, and severely deal with those verified to be true in accordance with laws and regulations
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Strengthen the accountability of examination and approval and supervisory personnel for failing to perform their duties according to law, and for lax inspections
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If the local government's ineffective implementation of the ecological environment prevention and control measures of the "two highs" project is prominent, the regional approval limit shall be implemented in accordance with the law, and it shall be included in the key content of the provincial ecological environmental protection inspection
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All municipal ecological environment bureaus and relevant municipal administrative examination and approval service bureaus shall implement the implementation of these implementation opinions and submit them to the Provincial Department of Ecological Environment in writing before August 20, 2021
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If there are no clear provisions in this implementation opinion, the relevant requirements of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government shall be strictly implemented
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