Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has requested the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to co-operate with authorities of the central province of Ha Tinh in the inspection of the dumping of waste by the Hung Hiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Limited Company.

The request was made following recent news stories which said that the company had been found to have buried a huge amount of waste at a farm run by Le Quang Hoa, director of Ky Anh urban environment management and construction consultation joint stock company.

The waste pumped at Mr. Hoa's farm

Earlier, Ha Tinh’s environmental police uncovered around 100 tonnes of waste dumped at Hoa’s farm. Samples tested at the Institute of Technology and Environment showed that the waste was toxic.

The Ministry of Public Security has also worked with Ha Tinh Province on the inspection.

The director of the Ky Anh urban environment management and construction consultation joint stock company, said that the waste taken from Formosa’s drainage system and after being dried, was put into bags before being dumped. Hoa said that earlier, several samples of the waste were tested as not being toxic by the provincial Department of Environmental Protection.

Under the agreement signed with Hung Hiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Limited Company, the Ky Anh urban environment management and construction consultation joint stock company was tasked with taking Formosa’s waste to the province’s licensed waste treatment areas, however, it instead dumped the waste at Hoa’s farm.