Category: News on Related Issues
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Going nuclear: A new generation of reactors is suddenly likely. But at what cost? And what will happen to the waste?
COLE MORETON, THE INDEPENDENT, MAY 21, 2006 In a pool of cold water in west Cumbria sit hundreds of metal flasks, silently oozing heat. Each contains enriched uranium removed from the reactors of nuclear power stations after use. It remains highly radioactive. Exposure to the contents of one flask would be followed quickly by death.…
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Narmada tribals approach President
PTI, NEW DELHI, MAY 17, 2006 Tribals from the Narmada Valley today knocked the doors of the Rashtrapathi Bhawan seeking steps to save their villages from submergence once the height of Sardar Sarovar dam is raised. A delegation of Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) led by Medha Patkar met President A P J Abdul Kalam and…
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Caca-Cola: it's Coke with bits in
DINESH NARAYAN, TIMES NEWS NETWORK MUMBAI: Multinational corporate soft drinks maker Coca-Cola regularly pays off its vendors to keep quiet when substances such as tobacco pouches, dirt and fungus show up in its beverages, classified documents of the company’s marketing arm reveal. A confidential memo and correspondences between officials of Hindustan Coca-Cola Marketing Company in…
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'Extreme Engineering': Researchers use bacteria to reduce uranium to safe levels
HANNAH HICKEY While the Cold War ended decades ago, its legacy will live for centuries in toxic waste. In remote corners of the country from Tennessee to the Pacific Northwest, dozens of federal laboratories struggle to clean up contaminants left from 50 years of weapons programs. New results show a promising technique for cleaning up…
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French exhibition to raise funds for AO victims
PARIS — An exhibition titled “Friendship village in Viet Nam” opened in Saint Quentin, northern France, on Monday to raise funds for disabled Vietnamese people, especially victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin. Speaking at the ceremony, Chairman of the Aisne province’s Republic Association of War Veterans and Victims, Antoine Gilbert Crestani, said he wanted to express the…
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Poisoned town wants Saddam's chemical suppliers to pay
HALABJA, Iraq (AFP) — An X-ray of Kamil Abdel Qader’s lungs show a lower third that is entirely scarred — lasting damage from the poisonous gas that rained down on his Iraqi Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988. Doctors say he needs to get a fist-size chunk of tissue removed from his damaged lungs if…
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Vietnamese Agent Orange victims sue Dow and Monsanto in US court
NGOC NGUYEN & AARON GLANTZ, ASIA TIMES, MAY 16, 2006 [The American war in Southeast Asia featured the most widespread use of chemical warfare since World War I. Earlier, the British had resorted to chemicals in their colonies, Italy did so in Ethiopia, and Japan in China in the 1930s and 1940s. These were lethal…
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Modi deceiving people on Narmada
Ahmedabad • The Congress yesterday voiced its opposition to the Gujarat government’s stand on the Narmada issue accusing Chief Minister Narendra Modi of deceiving the people of Gujarat. The party claimed that Modi himself had requested the Federal Water Resources Minister Saifuddin Soz to call a meeting of the Narmada Control Authority Review Committee (NCARC)…
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They did it their way – so they have no one to blame but themselves: Bush and Blair are trying to offset the unpopularity of their chosen war by appealing to a verdict of history we will never hear
GARY YOUNGE, THE GUARDIAN, LONDON, MAY 15, 2006 THE INTERNET WEEKLY If democracy is supposed to represent the will of the people, then there is either something wrong with the democracies or something wrong with the people on both sides of the Atlantic. Less than two years ago George Bush was re-elected president of the…
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British journal voices support for Vietnamese AO victims
VIETNAM NEWS AGENCY London, May 14 (VNA) – The British magazine, Ecologist, in its May 2006 edition carried an article and photos on Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin sprayed by US troops during the Viet Nam war. The article, written by Adrian Brown, said that Agent Orange, which accounted for approximately 60 percent of all…
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EPA may change toxin reporting
KEN LEISER, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, MAY 13, 2006 During the last decade, environmental health advocate Kathy Andria has taken university students, health officials and community groups on tours through St. Clair and Madison counties to see companies that handle and release toxic chemicals. The tour is built largely around information Andria mines from the Toxics…
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Dow admits massive dioxin pollution but says it isn't all that bad for you
JEREMIAH STETTLER, THE SAGINAW NEWS, MAY 13, 2006 DOW: NUMBERS DISTORT RISK What state regulators tout as “science” seems more like science fiction, Dow Chemical Co. officials say. The company has released data challenging the state Department of Community Health’s claims that a person who lives and dines along the Tittabawassee River consumes up to…
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Three decades later, Agent Orange still ravages Vietnam: "We must take responsibility", say vets
TIM WHEELER, PEOPLE’S WEEKLY WORLD, MAY 11, 2006 Photo by Daniel Shea of VFP72: children of Friendship Village in Hanoi greet conference delegates. An unprecedented meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, March 28-29, proved that wounds from the Vietnam War are still open and bleeding three decades after that conflict supposedly ended. It was the first International…
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Minamata at 50: the tragedy deepens
ERIC JOHNSTON, MAY 12, 2006 “The most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.’ Henrik Ibsen, “An Enemy of the People.’ As public spaces in Japan go, Minamata’s Eco Park is quite pleasant. Unlike the “Designed by local elders and built by a yakuza-linked construction firm now under indictment’ concrete…
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Last night in Manibeli
DILIP DSOUZA, MIDDAY, APRIL 10, 2006 Last night, I dreamt I went to Manibeli again. Sure, I may have stolen that line from Daphne du Maurier’s classic novel Rebecca, but it’s true. I first went to that little village 13 years ago, and a few times since — but in my mind, I’ve returned often.…