China: Villagers protest at Zhejiang solar panel plant
Found on BBC News on Sunday, 18 September 2011
One 64-year-old villager told the Associated Press that the factory - located close to a school and kindergarten - discharges waste into the river and spews dense smoke out of a dozen chimneys.
Chen Hongming, a deputy head of Haining's environmental protection bureau, was quoted by Chinese news agency Xinhua as saying that the factory's waste disposal had failed pollution tests since April.
The company is a subsidiary of a New York Exchange-listed Chinese solar company, JinkoSolar Holding Company.
That's the price to pay for cheap products. You can't give workers any rights and be environmentally friendly if you want to beat all prices. Not to mention that producing low quality products also saves some cash.