It's not that difficult to open a hospital in another world, right? Chapter 576: If you don’t agree with pollution control, I will publish a paper! (If you are tired, take a nap and get a 10,000 reward bonus 1)
Chapter 576: If you don’t agree with pollution control, I will publish a paper! (If you are tired, take a nap and get a 10,000 reward bonus 1)
The atmosphere at the banquet suddenly stiffened.
Gretel wanted to say something, but couldn't. Biochemical environmental materials, four major sinkholes, and environmental pollution control were originally a job that lost money every year...
Why should he let the city lord do this? In other words, what kind of benefit exchange can he provide to let the city lord do this?
You can't just rely on interests, relationships, and pressure...that's not how you do things.
Viscount Joan rejected Gretel's proposal and instantly regretted his mistake. The so-called young people are full of energy, but if they are not full of energy, they are not called young people anymore...
Would Master Nordmark be unhappy with such a straightforward rejection?
Oops, he should be more tactful... maybe he should cry more about poverty? Talk about his difficulties more?
"Well, Mr. Master, it's not that I don't want to do this. Those people in the village are also my people. It makes me uncomfortable to see them suffer... But, but..."
His round and chubby face wrinkled inward, and in an instant he changed from a freshly steamed white steamed bun to a bun with 18 pleats. Every wrinkle on his eyebrows, facial features, and every wrinkle was written with the word "poor" in big words:
"If the sewage is not discharged directly, what should I do? I need to clean up the water used for washing the mines. If I put the output of the entire mine into it, I'm afraid it won't be enough! If it gets to this point, I might as well not open the mine!"
Grete silently. So this is the difficulty of environmental governance: when the cost of a company's pollution control has exceeded the company's total profit, what do you want it to do?
Close the factory directly?
It is not impossible to shut it down directly. The problem is, who will solve the series of problems of local people's employment, taxation, and economy?
Not to mention this world with extremely low productivity, even in Gretel's previous life, many places followed the path of pollution first and treatment later.
Are the local governments and local people really unaware of the pollution?
Poor!
"Besides, I'm not the one who created the dirty water. That workshop discharged much more dirty water than my mine, right? My place is clean, but it's useless to drain it over there!"
This is true. According to Grete's observation, yellow smoke is billowing around the workshop, and an unknown amount of sulfide alone is emitted. As for lead? Zinc? Cadmium?
The amount of sewage discharged from chemical production is definitely much greater than that from simply washing ore!
Lord Qiao An didn't mention the workshop, but Grete wanted to talk to them. Since he mentioned it, let me ask by the way:
"Lord Viscount, do you know who owns that workshop? Where are the products sold and what are they used for?"
City Lord Joan knew this question well. When Grete asked, he pointed his fingers and said clearly:
"That workshop is the property of Viscount Lester in the next county, but I heard that the magician enshrined in their city also has a share. As for the things made, where are they sold..."
The Viscount stood up, took down a pair of glasses from the treasure rack on the side, and placed them in front of Gretel:
"Lead ingots, zinc ingots, etc., are just those places. As for their dyes, I heard that they are sold to the glass workshop controlled by the Mage Tower. Then, these pairs of cups were given to me by them."
Grete looked at it intently. The glass was not unusual, it was clear and transparent, which was normal. The only feature was that the print on it was eye-catching:
Bright yellow, bright blue, orange-red, and fluorescent green. Each color is extremely bright. Turning it slightly in your hand almost makes people suspect that a rainbow has fallen into the world.
Especially the bright yellow color, Grete felt as if he had just seen it a few days ago. He held the cup and twisted it with his thumb. The fingertips were smooth and smooth. Obviously, the print was still on the inside of the cup, and
Not the outside.
"Can I pour some water in?"
Grete's heart moved and she asked softly. Viscount Joan laughed:
"No problem! Master Nordmark, if you like it, these cups will be given to you directly!"
There is no need to send it. Grete poured half a cup of boiling water into it, covering all the stamps, and pushed the cup aside. Then, speaking softly, he discussed with the Lord of the City:
"The sewage from this mine must be treated. I have seen the direction of the water system. The creek coming out of the mountains directly flows into the largest lake in the surrounding area, and the water from Whit Lake irrigates the surrounding area for dozens of miles. Put it
If you don't care..."
Having said this, the Viscount's expression became ugly. The fields around Whit Lake are the best farmland around, and half of the Viscount's own farm is there.
Do you think that the grains, vegetables, beef, and mutton you eat in the future will all be watered by poisonous water?
Absolutely not!
"What should we do? How much will it cost? Otherwise... the mine will not open?"
He asked a series of questions. Gretel sighed:
"This is not necessary. Industrial sewage treatment and so on. I have seen them doing similar projects in Nevis before. To put it simply, it is to harden the drainage channels, introduce the wastewater into the plant pool, and use plants to purify it."
At this point, he proposed to use cement for hardening. He wrote a letter and asked Master Tower to take it to the council to get authorization to open a workshop. While making money, he demolished the east wall to repair the west wall;
For plants to treat sewage, the Natural God Church in Nevis has accumulated technology. You can write to ask and I believe they will be more willing to provide it;
It will be handed over to the Natural God Church for sewage disposal later. The City Lord's Mansion only needs to be slightly affixed...
1510 Explain clearly. Seeing Viscount Qiao An nodding repeatedly, it was obvious that he had taken action. Then he took a clean empty cup, picked up the printed glass from before, and poured hot water into it.
An identification test took a picture, and sure enough, there was cadmium in the water.
It's very good. If you drink it for a long time, you won't even know how you died.
Gretel raised his eyebrows slightly and smiled.
"Speaking of which... is that workshop part of Viscount Lester's Mage Tower?"
In the afternoon of that day, Grete rode Apa for hundreds of miles and rushed directly to Sehir City, where Viscount Lester was located. After wandering around the city for half a night, he went directly to the Mage Tower outside the city the next day.
The name of a person, the shadow of a tree. Belton Leeds, the presiding mage of the Mage Tower in Sehir City, is obviously a regular reader of "Arcane" and "Magic". He has seen Gretel's name in the journal. It sounds like it is
He immediately opened the door to welcome him.
This Leeds mage is one level higher than Gretl in terms of mage level, but he is twenty years older than him. He has been stationed abroad for a long time, and he is extremely enthusiastic when meeting a magician from Nevis like Grett.
He personally greeted the master at the gate of the tower, took the people into the VIP room at the top of the tower, seated the guests and hosts, and urged the subordinate mage:
"Make tea! Bring me the new tea brick! Boil the milk, add sugar cubes, and bring your papers..."
Gretel: "..." It doesn't have to be like this...
The two chatted happily. Grete talked about the latest academic research trends in Nevis, and Master Leeds talked about the customs, customs, and various specialties of Leicester County with great interest. But when he heard Grete's request, Master Leeds couldn't help but
Looking sad:
"This... treating sewage is very expensive, and the workshop is afraid that it will lose money. It will affect the performance evaluation of Master Tower and our research funds, which is a big trouble. And to be honest, that workshop is not owned by Master Tower, so I can't do it.
host……"
Gretel silently pulled out a stack of papers. Looking around, Master Leeds understood and dismissed the low-level mages. Gretel put down the papers and pushed them along the table:
"...Would you like to take a look at this first?"
As he spoke, he turned the paper upside down. When Master Leeds saw the title, he silently took a breath of air:
""On the Harm of Cadmium to the Human Body""
The paper is a thick stack, full of pictures and texts. As I flip through the pages, the contents are shocking: joint pain, bone pain, osteoporosis... liver damage, kidney damage...
Existing cases, cadmium exposure history, and the therapeutic effect of [Detoxification-Cadmium] prove the existence of this damage...
Master Leeds lowered his head slightly and quickly began to recall whether he had accidentally come into contact with this thing in the process of managing the workshop. After recalling it to confirm that he had not, he breathed a sigh of relief and continued reading:
"...Our use of cadmium dyes was long before the discovery of this element. [Disperse yellow] dye has so far been widely used in the production of glass, ceramics, and paints."
When Master Leeds read this, he couldn't help but turn his head slightly and glanced at the colorful glass window. This window is also a product of the glass workshop and has the same origin as those glasses:
"When glass and ceramic vessels fired with it are used to hold hot water, cadmium may precipitate and be ingested by the user..."
His color changed slightly. Grete sat opposite, observing his words and expressions, and said quietly:
"I bought a few glassware from a glass shop in the city. If they are printed and included, cadmium can be released by soaking them in hot water."
There was a slight sweat on the forehead of Master Leeds. Glassware, especially printed glassware, could not be afforded by ordinary people. The customers were all wealthy families. Let them know that the glasses sold by Master Tower are poisonous?
"...What do you want?"
"I still have a lot of things to do in Hartland City. I will not return to Nevis within half a month to a month. I will not submit this paper until I return to Nevis."
Grete answered calmly. During this period of time, the glass workshop should be able to make up for the repairs and recalls that should be made. Seeing Master Leeds nodding quickly, he suddenly smiled:
"Also, although I don't understand dyes... but the dye peeling off is most likely due to the temperature of the glass. Raising the temperature should solve the problem."
As he spoke, he dug and dug in the space bag and took out another stack of papers. The method of treating the smoke from the dye workshop; the general method of hardening the ditch and the plant pond; the letter of introduction written by Elder Erwin to the elder of the Natural God Church in this county.
…
We have the methods, we have the budget, we have the connections. We should also have the will of the Mage Tower. It shouldn’t be difficult to promote pollution control in the workshop, right?
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