Residents and officials of the Jenwu township protest strongly against the FPG plan to import the waste to the FPG factory nearby. FPG reveals that they are negotiating with France to accept the mercury contaminated waste. They stated that an import permit by France had already been granted and that money had already been exchanged. The local French community, angered by a permit granted by government authorities to import toxic waste without informing their advisory committee are successful in getting France to reverse its decision to allow the importation. FPG next tries to export to BRZ company in Germany.
Government then denies the permit.
Later they were discovered to still be negotiating with US and European firms to export it. Environmentalists in Netherlands and in Taiwan are furious that they had not been informed by authorities. Greenaction discovers and denounces renewed plans by FPG and US Ecology to dispose of the waste in Nevada, this time by bringing the waste in through the seldom used port of Coos Bay, Oregon to avoid protests. Greenaction vows to meet shipment at port, highways and dump with direct action. Following another eruption of adverse public reaction, U.S. Ecology finally withdraws its most recent plans.