Ha Tinh province is home to an economic zone which covers numerous industrial plants, including a multi-billion dollar steel plant run by Formosa conglomerate.
Tonnes of fish, including rare species which live far offshore and in the deep, have been discovered on beaches along the country’s central coastal provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Tri, Quang Binh and Hue.
People suspects that the sewage with harmful chemicals released from the steal plants contaminates the coastline causing massive fish deaths along the country’s central coast in recent days.
We the People ask the Federal Government help the people of Vietnam by providing independent Environmental Impact Assessment of the Steel Plant and President Obama to raise the issue with Vietnamese Government in May 2016 visit.