Welcome to the "Green Economy": Carbon cuts leave Chinese factories in chaos

John Garnaut
The Age
Sep. 09, 2010

AN ABRUPT command from Beijing to follow through with ”iron-fisted” energy and carbon emission cuts has thrown China’s industrial heartland into chaos.
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”We had no water to flush the toilet, we couldn’t use the fridge and of course production stopped,” said an office manager at Wanxing wire mesh factory in Anping, Hebei province.

He said he had struggled through 10 days of randomly imposed blackouts – some as long as 22 hours – and the water supply and electrical appliances had just come back on. ”We often didn’t hear the power cut notices, partly because we couldn’t watch TV,” he said.

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