rather than just running over them.
Diana
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The power of text messaging..............
BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese city has halted construction of a chemical plant after residents sent more than 1 million mobile phone text messages protesting possible pollution dangers, news reports said Thursday.
The $1.4 billion facility being built by Tenglong Aromatic PX (Xiamen) Co. Ltd to produce the petrochemical paraxylene was planned for the booming southeastern port of Xiamen, the Xinhua News Agency and newspapers said.
"The Xiamen city government has decided to suspend construction of the PX (paraxylene) plant in Haicang District," a deputy mayor, Ding Guoyan, was quoted as saying by Xinhua. "The city government has listened to the opinions expressed and has decided, after careful deliberation, that the project must be re-evaluated."
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I don't think it is good that a huge project can be shut down buy a possible "spam" campaign.
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Wait till their representatives come home for Memorial Day Recess,
Go to their elected representatives constituency office.
Express their point of view.
Have their representative convey their message to the party leader.
Then wait and see if anything is changed.
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....... that entered in the decision to "re-evaluate" the plant.
The suspension of the Xiamen project coincides with government efforts to slow an investment boom in industries where supplies of factories and other assets exceed demand.
(a conglomerate) announced} in March they were expanding a joint venture chemical plant in the southeastern city of Quanzhou to produce paraxylene and other chemicals.
I would like to think that a little of the vox populi has risen there without them being imprisoned, or worse. . But maybe, just maybe, the re-evaluation was because the other plant was planned, so the other not needed.
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As long as the "spammers" think it worked, they'll be content.
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I pity any politician or businessman that would base any important decision on a lazy form of protesting like text messaging.
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"I pity any businessman that would base any decision on a lazy form of voting like text messaging" (my para-phrasing)
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