Category: News on Related Issues
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Japanese man spends life taking photos of AO effects
VietNamNet Bridge, September 15, 2006 Over the past 30 years, Japanese photographer Goro Nakamura has spent much time and effort taking photos describing the pain and destruction endured by Vietnamese people and their country due to Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin, which US troops sprayed during the war in Vietnam. “Agent Orange/dioxin has not only brought tragedy…
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Ivory Coast dump dwellers revolt amid toxic waste scandal
Joe Bavier, VOA News, Abidjan, September 14, 2006 The government has resigned. Top officials have been arrested. And around 16,000 people have sought treatment for symptoms believed linked to the illegal dumping of hundreds of tons of toxic waste in Ivory Coast’s main city, Abidjan. But to the residents of the village of Akouedo, the…
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Hanford cleanup failures vex feds
Los Angeles Times, September 14, 2006 RICHLAND, Wash. — On a desert plateau seven miles from the Columbia River, a massive federal project to clean up a Cold War-era nuclear weapons plant is deeply troubled. The effort to avoid an environmental calamity here, at the most polluted site in North America, is a priority of…
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Military wants nerve gas waste dumped into Delaware river
Associated Press, September 14, 2006 DEEPWATER, N.J. — The Defense Department said it could save up to $400 million by sending its chemical weapon waste to DuPont’s Chambers Works plant for treatment. The waste would come from stockpiles of mustard gas and nerve agents from Kentucky and Colorado chemical plants. The DuPont facility has already…
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Activists fear South Jersey could get more weapons waste
LAWRENCE HAJNA, COURIER-POST, SEPTEMBER 13, 2006 Opponents of the Army’s plan to ship neutralized VX nerve agent from Indiana to a wastewater treatment plant in South Jersey have long feared that the project could open the door to the region becoming the final destination for more chemical weapons waste products. Meetings this week in Kentucky…
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Japanese newsmaker on a mission to show legacy of Vietnam War
Makoto Igarashi, The Asahi Shimbun, September 14, 2006 Nguyen Viet and Nguyen Duc were born attached as a complication of the US use of the defoliant Agent Orange during the Vietnam War For the last 30 years, Japanese photojournalist Goro Nakamura has focused on one thing: the damage made to the Vietnamese people and their…
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Federal report sparks anger among Vets
DEBORAH HOFFMAN, NEWS 10 NET, SEPTEMBER 12, 2OO6 Local vets are reacting with anger to a Veterans Administration-sponsored report released Tuesday that concludes there is no such thing as Gulf War syndrome. The study acknowledges that nearly 30 percent of all those who served in the first war in Iraq suffered or still suffer from…
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Ivory Coast toxic waste: 6 dead, around 9,000 ill
NEWS24.COM, ABIDJAN, SEPTEMBER 11, 2006 Abidjan – The death toll in Ivory Coast’s toxic waste scandal has risen to six, while about 9 000 people have been poisoned by the chemical dumped on open-air sites in Abidjan, said the Ivorian health ministry on Monday. Jean Denoman, deputy director of health said: “We have as of…
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Chinese factory managers detained over toxic river spill, may face criminal charges
ASSOCIATED PRESS, SEPTEMBER 11, 2006 BEIJING The senior managers of two factories in central China blamed for tainting a river with toxic arsenide have been detained and could face criminal charges, state media said. Last week, high levels of arsenide poison were found in Hunan province’s Xinqiang River, forcing authorities to cut off drinking water…
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U.S. chapter often overlooked in the history of Anfal
ERIC BLACK, STAR TRIBUNE, MINNEAPOLIS, SEPTEMBER 10, 2006 As his trial resumes today, Saddam Hussein stands charged with massacring tens of thousands or more Kurds, including thousands who were killed by chemical weapons dropped from aircraft. President Bush has often cited this atrocity as part of the justification for removing from power “a man who…
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Arsenic-compound spill affects drinking water for 80,000 in China
ASIA PACIFIC NEWS, SEPTEMBER 10, 2006 Beijing – A leak of an arsenic compound from a waste tank at a chemical plant in central China poisoned the drinking water of 80,000 people, with authorities Sunday issuing urgent warnings. The people of Chengguang in the district of Yueyang in Hunan province were warned not to drink…
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Narmada Bachao Andolan to knock Supreme Court over rehabilitation
INDO ASIAN NEWS SERVICE, SEPTEMBER 1O, 2006 Bhopal, Sep 10 (IANS) The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) will move the Supreme Court challenging the Madhya Pradesh government’s claims of having rehabilitated families affected by a power project barring 53. The group is at continuous loggerheads with the state government over the land acquisition and denial of…
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1990-1991: Iraqi mass mutiny in the Gulf War
LIBCOM.ORG, SEPTEMBER 9, 2006 Massacred civilians and deserting Iraqi troops on the Basra road There has been a long tradition of class struggle in Iraq, particularly since the revolution in 1958. With Saddam’s strategy of a permanent war drive to maintain social peace this struggle has often taken the form of mass desertion from the…
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Oak Ridge National Lab cited for beryllium exposure in Tennessee
EASYBOURSE ACTUALITE, SEPTEMBER 8, 2006 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP)–The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been cited for allowing unprotected employees to move old machine shop equipment contaminated with potentially fatal beryllium dust from a building at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant complex. “Individuals were allowed to enter and work in Building 9201-2 without protective equipment despite…
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Mercury levels high in Lake Mendocino fish
CLAUDIA REED, TWN, SEPTEMBER 9, 2006 Those planning a fishing trip to Lake Mendocino or Lake Sonoma might want to consider calling it off. In both lakes, mercury contamination in fish species at the top of the food chain now exceeds recommended safety levels, particularly for young people, nursing mothers, and pregnant women, according to…