Fengzhen power station

The Fengzhen power station is a 2,920 MW (6 x 200 MW, 2 x 660 MW) coal plant in Inner Mongolia, China. The station and its associated open-pit coal ash dump covers more than 130 acres.

Due to complaints from farmers that the plant was ruining their crops and toxins were leaching into groundwater, Hou Shier Quan residents near the plant were able to convince the local government to negotiate increased reparations from the company that owns the power plant: an additional 50 yuan per year for each farmer (roughly $7, or the cost of an average meal in Beijing).

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