Category: News on Related Issues

JEREMIAH STETTLER, THE SAGINAW NEWS, JULY 12, 2006 At the National Academy of Sciences, everyone’s a winner … or so it seems in the day since the scientific society released its critique of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s examination of dioxin. Environmental groups applauded the academy’s description of dioxin as a “likely” human carcinogen and…

Don't panic: it's only a leaky reactor

Jul 13, 2006

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ANDREW BILLEN, THE NEW STATESMAN, JULY 17, 2006 As a child, I must have caught the tail-end of the pro-nuclear age, for I remember mild excitement being generated in the supermarket aisles by a new washing powder called Radion, a detergent that didn’t actually claim it irradiated rather than washed your smalls, but still managed…

Tittabawassee river "remains toxic, but not quite as bad" writes the Saginaw News (sort of like falling off an 800 foot cliff instead of a 1,000 foot one)

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JEREMIAH STETTLER, THE SAGINAW NEWS, JULY 11, 2006 The Tittabawassee River is less toxic than once thought, a World Health Organization report suggests. But it’s still toxic. The World Health Organization reported findings this month that dramatically downgrade the toxicity of one of the chief contaminants in the Tittabawassee River. The organization found that a…

Medha all set to come to Jharkhand

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK, July 11, 2006 RANCHI: Medha Patkar, firebrand leader of the Narmada Bachao Andolan is now gearing up to set foot in Jharkhand, spelling more trouble for the Arjun Munda government. Patkar has called for a violent protest in case the government has not yet come out with a proper rehabilitation policy for…

Shunglu Committee report untruthful, says Patkar

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PRESS TRUST OF INDIA, JULY 11, 2006 A day after the Supreme Court refused to stop construction work on Sardar Sarovar Project, Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar on Tuesday alleged that the Shunglu Committee report was “untruthful” and “based on fraud data and distorted conclusions.” “The report cannot stand the test of social science…

Panel clears way for tougher cleanup of dioxin

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DEBORAH ZABARENKO, REUTERS, JULY 11, 2006 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The cancer-causing chemical dioxin — present in some U.S. water, soil, food supplies and most Americans’ bodies — should be cleaned up to a new, much higher standard, a U.S. scientific panel reported on Tuesday. Experts assembled by the National Academies’ National Research Council confirmed many…

Human guinea pigs, secret tests and grim deaths inside British poison lab

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FRANCIS ELLIOTT, NEW ZEALAND REPORTER, JULY 11, 2006 Servicemen were deliberately subjected to lethal doses of poison in secret tests at chemical weapons research establishment Porton Down, an official report will admit this week. The Ministry of Defence is braced for a flood of compensation claims from volunteers used in trials at its chemical weapons…

Mountain views: Kurds may have shot at forming a homeland

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JOHN HANCHETTE, NIAGARA FALLS REPORTER, JULY 10, 2006 OLEAN — This space has been used in the past for commentary on the Middle Eastern anomaly of the Kurds, the largest ethnic group on the planet without their own official state. When President Dubya invaded Iraq in 2003, only a tiny fraction of Americans had ever…

Visiting the homeland of the Ta Oi

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HUU NGOC, VIET NAM NEWS, JULY 9, 2006 The Ta Oi, one of the 53 ethnic minorities of Viet Nam, has a population of 35,000, of which 26,000 live in A Luoi District (or 66 per cent of the district’s population). A Luoi is a name that evokes sinister memories of two Indochina wars: An…

Italian Speaker remembers Seveso

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SEVESO TRAGEDY ANNIVERSARY: BERTINOTTI’S MESSAGE (AGI) – Rome, Jul 10 – Speaker of the House Fausto Bertinotti sent the following message to national secretary Rino Pavanello at the convention organised by the “Environment and Work” association: “Thirty years after the fateful date of July 10, 1976, the tragedy of Seveso still arouses feelings of dismay,…

Foreign funding allegations absurd: Medha

Jul 9, 2006

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Bhopal: Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar on Saturday described the allegations of foreign funding against her organisation as baseless. She said it was prepared to face any inquiry. Talking to mediapersons Ms. Patkar, who was here to participate in a two-day meeting of the National Alliance of People’s Movement, said the NBA would…

New era of veterans seek voice in nation: Non-profit forms to carry political torch

Jul 9, 2006

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MIKE BARBER, P-I REPORTER They humped into the boonies 40 years ago, wary of ambushes from the tall elephant grass, rice paddies, and triple-canopied forests of Vietnam. They returned home, to the “real world,” only to battle their own government for recognition of the physical and mental wounds inflicted by Agent Orange defoliant and post-traumatic…

Vietnamese wildlife still paying a high price for chemical warfare

Jul 8, 2006

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JESSIE KING, THE INDEPENDENT, JULY 8, 2006 Forty years on, much of the environmental damage caused to Vietnam by American forces during the Vietnam War has still not been repaired, according to a new study. In particular, the effects of the massive amounts of chemical defoliants sprayed from the air to destroy the jungle hiding…

Higher thyroid cancer rate from Chernobyl confirmed

Jul 8, 2006

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