Category: News on Related Issues

SANJOG MISHRA, HINDUSTAN TIMES, SEPTEMBER 24, 2006 “A NUCLEAR tragedy leaves its impact on several generations,” said Prof. Geza L. Lukacs of the University of Debrecen Medical and Health Science Center in Hungary. Prof Lukacs, who was in BHU to participate in an International Integrated Meet of Cancer Societies, said reports of people affected by…

Anti-dam activists to launch protests

Sep 25, 2006

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Adapted from an Indo Asian News Service report, September 24, 2006 Taking a leaf out of the agitation launched by the people of Kumaon in Uttaranchal against cutting of trees three decades ago, the people affected by the Indira Sagar Project plan to launch a ‘Chipko satyagraha’, protesting the raising of the water level in…

Clean-up of toxic waste in Cote d'Ivoire to take weeks: WHO

Sep 24, 2006

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MU XUEQUAN, XINHUA ONLINE, SEPTEMBER 24, 2006 GENEVA, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) — The toxic waste dumping incident in Cote d’Ivoire has caused a severe public health crisis, and clean-up work will take about six weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. Since the incident happened on Aug. 19, over 44,000 people in the…

Disposal site eyed by Dow for Tittabawassee waste is sneaky and irresponsible

Sep 23, 2006

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Kathie Marchlewski, Midland Daily News, September 20, 2006 Michelle Hurd Riddick, center, speaks outside of the Saginaw County Governmental Center on Tuesday during a press conference regarding what a Lone Tree Council press release called a “dredged materials storage facility” being constructed in Zilwaukee and Frankenlust townships. With Riddick are, from left, Betty Damore, who…

Agent Orange health study ending

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Brian Bowling, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, September 20, 2006 Bob Eiler, past commander of Pennsylvania VFW, has cancer from exposure to Agent Purple in Vietnam. Joe Appel/Tribune-Review An herbicide that protected Bob Eiler as an 18-year-old soldier also likely gave the 63-year-old veteran prostate and bone cancer. An Army sergeant and military adviser in Laos and Vietnam…

Athlone under threat from nuclear fallout

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Maria Daly, Athlone Advertiser, September 20, 2006 People living in Athlone could face compulsary resettlement if a Chernobyl-like nuclear explosion was to happen in the Welsh nuclear power plant of Wylfa. The new fallout maps were created for a conference by the Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities Forum (NFLA). The conference will take place in…

Tokyo's Wako University staging exhibition on Minamata disease

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The Japan Times, September 19, 2006 KEIJI HIRANO Wako University is holding an exhibition through Sept. 24 on Minamata disease at its campus in Machida, western Tokyo, aiming to show how the mercury-poisoning disease has affected Japan’s postwar society. The exhibition is being held to mark the 50th anniversary of official recognition of one of…

Oak Ridge plant to aid in redesign of nuke weapons parts

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Associated Press, September 18, 2006 OAK RIDGE (AP) — The Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge is supporting a new Department of Energy initiative. It would redesign nuclear weapons parts so they could more easily be made and maintained in the future. The “Reliable Replacement Warhead” program is a departure from the current “life-extension…

Narmada Valley under threat of 122 meter killer wave

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Staff Reporter, Cybernoon, Bombay, September 18, 2006 Presently, the Sardar Sarovar Dam stands at the height of 119 meters, submerging more than 100 villages. The Gujarat government will soon be increasing the height of the wave to 122 meters, putting thousands of labourers, farmers, fisherfolk and their families under the threat of submergence. Adivasi communities…

"We've been sick since 1965"

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Joe Bavier, News24.com, September 14, 2006 Abidjan – A child crouches at the summit of a mountain of garbage at the Akouedo landfill on the outskirts of Ivory Coast’s commercial capital, scouring through the rubbish for something useful or saleable, an eerie silhouette on the horizon between sky and trash. The more than 100-hectare garbage…

New books detail lives of Vietnam War survivors

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The Yomiuri Shimbun, September 18, 2006 Katsumoto Saotome, a writer dedicated to exposing the horrors of war, has published three new books that follow the lives of girls affected by the Vietnam War. One of the books, “Napalm-dan to Kim-chan” (Napalm and Kim-chan), focuses on Kim, best known as the naked, burned girl fleeing from…

Tests pinpoint Fulton PSC plant as source of widespread illnesses

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Ben Nelms, The Citizen, Georgia, September 16, 2006 State and federal officials confirmed Friday that tests showed toxic chemical presence of hundreds of thousands of times the accepted upper safe exposure levels for humans in south Fulton County beginning in late spring and early summer. “Based on results from environmental sampling, preliminary analysis of reported…

Fulton waste plant stirs up stink: odors, ailments among complaints

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Stacy Shelton, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 15, 2006 Clare Hindman’s family thought she’d had a stroke. When she spoke at a community meeting in a church, a friend thought she’d been drinking. On the Hindmans’ kitchen calendar, where they keep track of birthdays, beach vacations and fishing trips, her husband, Earl, wrote “All of June…

Vietnamese girl, victim of defoliant, in Japan for surgery

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