Chapter 13: Misfortune never comes alone

"Tu tuk tuk" The rushing knock on the door woke Zhao Guodong up from his sleep. He felt frightened. Looking at his watch, it was only 6:20. What happened? Who did the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection take away?!

Thinking of this, Zhao Guodong felt a numbness in his scalp. He tried hard to restrain his emotions, and asked in a deep voice while dressing, "What's the matter?"

"Governor, I just called the duty room of the Provincial Government Office and an explosion occurred in the purification plant associated with the Tongcheng Petrochemical Project, causing a large amount of hydrogen sulfide-containing gas to leak, which may cause huge casualties and losses of people and property." Ouyang Jinhua's voice was a little trembling.

"When did it happen? I mean when did the explosion happen? Report to Secretary Ling?" Zhao Guodong jumped up, put on his clothes and trousers in a few seconds, and rushed out of the door.

"It should be half an hour ago, and it has been reported to Secretary Ling." Ouyang Jinhua quickly handed Zhao Guodong the phone that had already ringed again, "Secretary Ling's phone number."

Zhao Guodong took the phone and said in a deep voice: "Secretary Ling, it's me, okay, I'll be at home and leave immediately."

"Governor."

"Let's go to Tongcheng! Notify Long Yinghua, Zou Fuhai, Gu Yuanshan, Xu Qiao, Mei Jiurong, Zeng Lingchun, and ask them to rush to Tongcheng immediately and briefly introduce the situation to them." Zhao Guodong didn't say much and went straight out.

It was already more than four or five hours later when Ling Zhengyue and Zhao Guodong arrived in Tongcheng. Looking from a distance, the scene was in chaos, and the strong smell of hydrogen sulfide was still permeated, making people feel a splitting headache.

The fire trucks ahead were placed in a row, and the mist sprayed from the water dragon floated everywhere in the air. There were still buildings catching fire. The firefighters were risking their risk to suppress the fire. It was not just the fire that posed a threat to them, but the residual hydrogen sulfide was still very toxic.

Lu Weihong followed Ling Zhengyue and Zhao Guodong in sweat, and Mayor Xu Bicheng and Deputy Mayor Luo Rui were directing rescue operations on the spot.

The situation at the explosion site has been controlled, and three people died on the spot, but a large amount of high concentrations of hydrogen sulfide leaked and overflowed, causing 12 workers living in nearby sheds to be poisoned and killed, and more than 160 people to be poisoned to varying degrees.

This is an unprecedented major safety accident in Anyuan in recent years!

"Secretary Ling, Governor Zhao, you can't move forward any further. There is still danger in moving forward any further!" Lu Weihong said nervously while wiping beads of sweat.

"There is still danger? Are the people who are still on the front line in front not dangerous? What were you doing before?" Ling Zhengyue responded coldly, ignored the other party and made great strides forward. Zhao Guodong didn't say anything, but followed Ling Zhengyue and went deeper.

Ling Zhengyue and Zhao Guodong checked the surrounding situation with the strong smell of hydrogen sulfide, and then visited the firefighters and rescue team members who were continuing to fight the fire and clean up the scene one by one. They stayed at the scene until four o'clock in the afternoon and the situation was completely controlled. The two left Long Yinghua, Zou Fuhai and others to continue to command on the scene, left the scene and returned to Tongcheng District.

A deputy director of the State Administration of Production and Production has already arrived at Ningling Dongzhai Airport and is rushing here by car from Ningling. Nearly half of the arrival from Ningling is from Andu than from Andu. The bureau is estimated to be able to arrive in Tongcheng at around five o'clock.

Ling Zhengyue said nothing in the car, but Zhao Guodong, who was sitting side by side with Ling Zhengyue, easily discovered signs of Ling Zhengyue's old and tiredness. The old man spots were particularly obvious in his temples. The dark circles and drooping eye bags proved that the old man was tortured by the continuous problems and things during this period and was obviously exhausted.

Ling Zhengyue is twenty years older than Zhao Guodong, and his long-term experience in working in the Central Bureau of Direct Affairs also made him develop better living habits. Although the work pressure is not small, it is relatively simple. After arriving in Anyuan, all the complicated local affairs made him feel that his energy was being exhausted little by little, especially the past two months, which has kept Ling Zhengyue's sleep in a state of serious lack of sleep. Basically, there is no day when he can have a stable sleep, and the work matters he needs to deal with every day also make him exhausted. At this time, he realized that he is no longer an energetic middle-aged man, but an old man approaching the 60th mark.

What worried Ling Zhengyue was not just a mere major safety accident, but the huge negative impact of this safety accident.

Lu Weihong has taken time to report to him alone.

The desulfurization plant in which the accident occurred was originally a subsidiary of Tongcheng Petrochemical. However, when promoting this large-scale joint venture between Sinopec and BASF, in order to further promote the close cooperation between Tongcheng Petrochemical and this joint venture project, the Tongcheng Municipal Government and Sinopec transferred part of the equity of some affiliated enterprises, including this desulfurization plant, to the joint venture project. It is precisely for this reason that the joint venture project has been successfully connected with the desulfurization plant so rapidly, and such a huge fantasy project will enter the desulfurization plant for docking and construction.

The construction progress is very fast. This is a requirement of the joint venture. The Chinese side of the joint venture requires that the construction be completed in the shortest time and then the system docking is realized to ensure that the pipeline can be extended to the joint venture project site at the beginning of next year. The joint venture project site is also progressing very fast. Basically, workers are running in three shifts, people are resting, construction equipment is not resting, and construction is constructed day and night to ensure that the progress is not affected.

It is in such an environmental atmosphere that the construction companies work overtime and ignore the safety system, resulting in violation of regulations during construction. In addition, the management of the desulfurization plant is chaotic and the safety measures are not in place, resulting in the natural gas leakage not being discovered in time. The construction party violated the construction in the prohibited area of ​​electric welding, causing an explosion of leaked natural gas and causing accidents. The leader of the desulfurization plant is not on duty, resulting in the spread of hydrogen sulfide and spillover, causing even greater accidents.

Although Lu Weihong only reported to Ling Zhengyue in half-covered and vaguely, as experienced as Ling Zhengyue could easily detect some clues from Lu Weihong's panicked and nervous report. However, in this case, he could only remain silent for the time being. He could not express his attitude until the problem was thoroughly investigated, and he found that he didn't even know how to deal with the situation in front of him.

There is no doubt that this is a vicious and serious safety responsibility accident. Who would take responsibility for this safety accident is not clear before it was thoroughly investigated. However, it is certain that Tongcheng has a great responsibility, otherwise it would not have been so sedated as Lu Weihong.

Thinking of this, Ling Zhengyue couldn't help but look at Zhao Guodong who looked ahead and seemed to be thinking about something. This guy is really a typical crow's mouth, and he is really unfortunate.

Before the project of Sinopec and BASF was finalized, this guy expressed his conviction that he was worried about environmental protection and safety issues, and believed that more meticulous and detailed arguments were needed. For this reason, Long Yinghua and Lu Weihong still criticized him several times, believing that Zhao Guodong was jealous and worried that Tongcheng would usher in a period of great development after obtaining this project. Tongcheng's outstanding performance may be a sharp contrast to Ningling, which has been declining. Although he doesn't believe it, he is still a little doubtful.

Ling Zhengyue remembered that some time ago, Long Yinghua had reported to himself that Zhao Guodong issued a document in the name of the provincial government, requiring municipal safety committees in various places to do a good job in safety and environmental supervision, put pressure on the safety supervision departments and environmental protection departments, and asked them to "attention special attention to supervision and inspection of the construction of petrochemical industries, especially large-scale petrochemical projects." He said that this was a typical "discriminatory" attitude and set obstacles to the construction progress of Tongcheng Petrochemical Project. He was a little unsatisfied at the time, thinking that since it is safety and environmental supervision, it should be treated equally. Even if it is targeted, it can only be regulated by laws and regulations, and it is not appropriate to issue documents directly to a certain industry.

Now it seems that I still trust Long Yinghua and Lu Weihong too much on this issue.

Thinking of this, Ling Zhengyue got angry for no reason. Why did these guys never bring me pleasant news, from Qihua to Long Yinghua, and always had such problems and troubles, letting myself clean up these messes? Is he really not aware of people? Ling Zhengyue could not accept such judgment.

He didn't know what Zhao Guodong would think about this matter and whether he would hold on to this issue. The two had a conflict before, and after several disputes, they barely compromised. Now this incident has more than ten lives, and this is not considered to be a few patients in the extremely dangerous period. This has attracted the high attention of the main leaders of the central government. The chaos in Anyuan's political arena has not yet subsided, and such a big thing has happened, which is undoubtedly a burning fire on the stove.

The real reason is still unclear, but the serious consequences are in front of us. This is also a huge blow to the entire project of Sinopec and BASF, and it also sounded the alarm for another petrochemical project that is still being promoted. The high risk of petrochemical projects is fully exposed, especially the harm and impact of the toxic gas leakage after the explosion is even greater. On this issue, will Zhao Guodong take up this question again and tell the story?
Chapter completed!