Uong Bi City: Tighten management and protection of resources and minerals

Along with coal resources, Uong Bi City also has mineral resources such as sand, clay, and limestone. This is a favorable condition for the coal mining and construction materials industry... but also has potential violations, so the city's functional agencies attach importance to management and strictly handle violations related to coal and mineral resources.

Uong Bi City authorities coordinated with Da Bac Logistics Company to patrol and control the Da Bac River area.

Currently, in the city, there are 4 units with coal mining and processing scale: Uong Bi Coal Company; Vang Danh Coal Joint Stock Company; Nam Mau Coal Company; Quang Ninh Cement and Construction Joint Stock Company and 2 coal transportation and consumption units: Da Bac Logistics Company, Uong Bi Coal Production and Trading Joint Stock Company. In addition, there are 8 licensed ports and 4 land mines for filling materials that are implementing procedures for granting Mineral Exploitation Licenses according to the Law on Minerals.

The city's functional forces and Uong Bi City Police maintain coordination with coal industry units in inspecting management work at port warehouses, yards, coal import and export activities, production mines and resource management boundaries. The inspections are carried out suddenly, focusing on units, potentially complicated locations, mines bordering localities, such as Dong Trieu, Ha Long and interspersed with production forests of households. The city police advise and propose timely remedies for loopholes, shortcomings and inadequacies in management and control work in sensitive areas related to coal gathering places and transportation routes. At the same time, strengthen situation monitoring, deploy night patrols on transportation routes, port areas, coal gathering and waste wharfs to detect, advise on handling and prevent illegal coal mining, gathering, transportation and consumption activities. Along with that, by granting logos to qualified and standard transport vehicles, it also ensures that the inspection and supervision of the transport process is strictly controlled, preventing the situation of units illegally transporting coal, landfill soil, etc.

Thanh Dat Company Limited carefully checks the sealing of concrete mixer trucks before delivery.

For units with activities related to ports and construction material yards, the City People's Committee requires functional forces to regularly inspect the operations of units that are allowed to operate. The City also assigns the Urban Order and Environment Inspection Team to monitor the entire area where sand and gravel are exploited, gathered, and traded throughout the city. The City Police will strengthen their monitoring of the situation, especially in areas with potential risks of illegal sand and gravel exploitation and gathering, such as the Uong River and Da Bac River areas.

For the land mines used as landfill materials in the area, up to now, all operations have been stopped under the direction of the Provincial People's Committee to complete legal procedures according to regulations. Therefore, the City People's Committee has directed and assigned relevant departments, branches, sectors and units to implement measures to protect unexploited minerals for land mines; strengthen management, deploy measures to detect, prevent and handle illegal mineral exploitation activities, focusing on high-risk locations to promptly detect illegal mineral exploitation activities in the area. Regarding the implementation of the province's direction on eliminating illegal sand and gravel gathering yards, since 2019, Uong Bi City has resolutely directed the clearance of sand gathering and trading yards that are not in accordance with the planning in the area. Up to now, there are no illegal sand and gravel gathering yards still operating in the city.

The drastic solutions above have contributed to a significant reduction in violations over the years. Illegal sand and gravel trading terminals and yards have been eliminated, and in 2024, there will be no sand and soil exploitation without a license in the city.

Comrade Bui Duc Anh, Head of the City's Department of Natural Resources and Environment, said: The management of mineral resources activities in general, associated with the protection of unexploited minerals in particular, in Uong Bi City, still faces many challenges. Mainly related to areas where soil mines have not been licensed to operate due to the large boundaries of the soil mines, most of the area is mountainous, making it difficult to travel, while the staff and civil servants are increasingly streamlined, the team doing state management of minerals at the city level as well as the communes and wards only hold part-time positions. This leads to the work of checking the area not being done regularly, and some cases are sometimes not timely. Therefore, the locality hopes that departments and branches will speed up the progress of handling legal procedures related to the licensing of soil mines for use as filling materials in the area to ensure the need for filling materials for public investment projects inside and outside the city, as well as to facilitate local management.

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