Yep. I looked a lot of this up before, but my neighbor verified it as well. In the morning, at the crack of dawn, apparently the skies are pretty clear, looks like its going to be a nice day. They by noon, one cannot make out the sun.
I hope you weren't there in November of 2005..
In 2005 they lost something over a hundred tons of a mixture of nitro-benzene and benzene in the Songhua river. That incident made it into the Wall Street Journal..
the Chinese government didn't have even enough infra-structure in place respond to the spill, let alone to order drinking water to be shut off downstream.. and benzene ran out of the taps for two weeks before it got shut off..
infrastructure, to minimally deal with this kind of incident costs..
and industrialists don't particularly like to pay taxes.. might be cheap goods and low overhead now.. but just wait..
what I see coming, in about twenty years or so.. some world court will order them to clean it all up. make restitution for all the people it's made sick..
The whole world seems to be turning into a garbage dump..