Incineration gets locals all fired up

Chen Shu never expected to discover "such a big secret" when she went to the Changping district government building to complain about noisy road construction.

At the corner of a bulletin board hung three pages of public hearing notices on a planned waste incineration project, the $121-million Asuwei plant.

"I can't believe this is happening," said the middle-aged businesswoman who bought an apartment for her elderly parents and teenage son near the Xiaotangshan neighborhood in north Beijing in 2006.