Category: News on Related Issues
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Humber estuary, England: Chemical leak halts fishing vessel movements
FishUpdate.com, October 30, 2006 FISHING vessels, and other shipping, have finally been allowed back into the Humber Estuary, following a potentially dangerous chemical leak from a factory on the Humber Bank, near Grimsby. Humber Coastguard vessels halted all shipping as a precaution for a number of hours, until the gas had cleared. The chemical leak…
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Massachusetts: Families face 'long journey' to prove cancer link
DARRYL R. ISHERWOOD, NEW JERSEY TIMES, OCTOBER 29, 2006 HAMILTON — When attorney Jan Schlichtmann sued corporate polluters in Woburn, Mass., 20 years ago, he told his clients they needed to be patient if they hoped to prove that their children were poisoned by contaminated water. By the time the case was settled, Schlichtmann had…
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State says hundreds likely sickened by toxic chemical
Associated Press, October 30, 2006 FAIRBURN, Ga. – An industrial waste plant is likely responsible for sickening more than 600 residents in Fairburn and nearby communities by exposing them to a toxic chemical used in crop pesticides, according to the Georgia Department of Human resources. A survey issued last week by the department shows consistent…
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20 years down, bombs to go: construction near for weapons-destroying plant
PETER MATHEWS, CENTRAL KENTUCKY BUREAU, OCTOBER 26, 2006 A bridge at Blue Grass Amry Depot was built to serve the chemical neutralization plant. The plant won’t be in full operation until at least 2012; it will have about 900 employees during the peak of its operation. Photo: Bechtel Parsons Blue Grass RICHMOND – It’s not…
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Addition of vitrification plant stacks changes Hanford’s skyline
Annette Cary, Tri-City Herald, October 28th, 2006 Hanford vitrification plant workers secure 130-foot stack The skyline at Hanford’s vitrification plant changed Friday. Bechtel National spent about four hours slowing lifting 125 tons of emission stacks 70 feet into the air to place them on top of the plant’s Low Activity Waste Facility. “This is the…
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Deadly waste shipped out of Ivory Coast to France
Peter Murphy, Reuters, October 28, 2006 ABIDJAN, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Tonnes of deadly toxic waste which killed 10 people and made thousands ill in Ivory Coast were shipped out of the West African country in sealed containers on Friday, bound for a treatment plant in France. The poisonous chemical waste was dumped in August…
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Goa: Cuncolim police seize liquid waste samples from factory
GOA HERALD, OCTOBER 28, 2006 MARGAO, OCT 28 — Cuncolim police on Saturday took samples of liquid and solid waste from the premises of a hazardous unit as anti-pollution activists claimed that the factory was allegedly caught discharging chemicals in violation of a High Court order. What’s more, the activists questioned the role of Government…
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Mystery of Israel's secret uranium bomb
Robert Fisk, The Independent, October 28, 2006 Israeli bombing in southern Lebanon shows large clouds of black smoke that might result from burning uranium. Did Israel use a secret new uranium-based weapon in southern Lebanon this summer in the 34-day assault that cost more than 1,300 Lebanese lives, most of them civilians? We know that…
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Questions about Dow's dioxins raised in New Zealand Parliament
TARIANA TURIA (Co-Leader—Māori Party) to the Minister of Health: What advice has the Minister received about the nature of the significant errors identified by independent forensic accountant John Leonard in the Ministry of Health’s Paritutu dioxin serum study? Hon PETE HODGSON (Minister of Health): I have received advice that the report of the forensic accountant…
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Dow Chemical Co. begins dioxin testing in Midland
CATHY HENG, THE SAGINAW TIMES, OCTOBER 27, 2006 MIDLAND – Soil testing to detect the presence of dioxins and furans began this week in Midland, and most property owners seem eager to know the results. Of the 571 property owners who received letters from Dow Chemical Co. asking for sampling permission, 350 have said ”yes”…
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Environmental justice tour to visit Saginaw
JILL ARMENTROUT, THE SAGINAW NEWS, OCTOBER 25, 2006 A statewide “Environmental Justice for All” tour will stop Thursday in Saginaw to explore the impact of environmental health threats. Eliminating lead poisoning and educating residents about dioxin risks in the Saginaw Bay watershed are focuses of the midday stop. The Campaign for State Action on Environmental…
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Chernobyl haunts the Norwegian uplands
New Scientist, October 28, 2006 Tougher controls on the slaughter of sheep have been imposed in Norway after they were found to be contaminated with unusually high levels of radioactivity from the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. The Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority (NRPA) says the problem has arisen because the sheep have feasted on an unusually…
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Resolution blocked over dredging spoils
BARRIE BARBER, THE SAGINAW NEWS, OCTOBER 25, 2006 A member of the Saginaw County Board of Commissioners has blocked a vote on a resolution declaring a future disposal site off-limits to anything but dredging spoils from the Saginaw River. Tim Novak, a Carrollton Township Democrat who introduced the resolution, vowed the 15 members of the…
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Vietnam: Pesticides from burnt warehouse pose severe threat
THANH NIEN NEWS, OCTOBER 24, 2006 A pesticide warehouse that went up in flames three days ago in southern Vietnam is posing a deadly threat to local residents’ health and livelihood. Many people have fainted while bathing in or consuming water from rivers flowing through several districts of An Giang province in the Mekong delta.…
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Vietnam: Mercury poisoning suspected in mystery deaths
THANH NIEN NEWS, OCTOBER 17, 2006 Dr. Nguyen Khac Hai, director of the Health Ministry’s Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health A mystery illness which killed four people in Vietnam’s northern mountains last month was possibly caused by mercury poisoning, a health expert said. Nguyen Khac Hai, director of the Health Ministry’s Institute of Occupational…