Tag: industrial pollution

Robert Brookes, SwissInfo Basel, November 1, 2006 Twenty years after a major environmental disaster in Basel, local people are aware that the city’s key chemical industry still poses a risk. And although residents have placed their trust in the industry again, doubts remain. The environmental nightmare began after a fire broke out at a Sandoz…

PAUL PHARE, BHOPAL.NET, OCTOBER 31, 2006 Humber skippers were ordered to haul to for fear of breathing corrosive gas PHOTO: WIEBE POSTHUMA BHOPAL NET EXCLUSIVE A curious reticence attends the reporting of the leak of a large quantity of titanium tetrachloride from “a chemical factory” in Stallingborough in North-East Lincolnshire. The leak was serious enough…

Mark Branagan, Yorkshire Post, October 30, 2006 Shipping entering the Humber was put on chemical alert early yesterday for the first time in a number of years after a leak from a factory created a gas cloud over the river. An operation involving Humber Coastguard, police and the fire service swung into action in the…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

JEFF MONTGOMERY, THE NEWS JOURNAL, OCTOBER19, 2006 Effects of VX gas exposure in Halabja An amendment in a defense spending bill has sidetracked Army plans to send chemical weapon disposal waste to a Delaware River treatment plant, three south Jersey lawmakers said today. Reps. Rob Andrews, Rob. Andrews, Frank LoBiondo and Jim Saxton said the…

KATE HOWARD, DICKSON HERALD, OCTOBER 19, 2006 Environmental activists called on city and state officials Wednesday to clean up the “obvious case of environmental injustice” they believe led to pollution in the rural, mostly black neighborhood near the closed Dickson County landfill. At an informational meeting in north Nashville, members of the Tennessee Coalition for…

Amsterdam, The Netherlands – The company that unloaded chemical waste blamed for the deaths of 10 people in Ivory Coast has said it accepts moral, but not legal, responsibility for the incident, Dutch media reported on Wednesday. IOL, SOUTH AFRICA, OCTOBER 19, 2006 The Dutch state broadcaster NOS cited Eric de Turckheim, co-founder of the…

Mike Ketcher and sons Grant and Jake, along with Capt. Rich Russell and the nice cobia they caught aboard the Enterpriserecently. I’m not an environmentalist, tree-hugger or political activist. I’m a fisherman. My frustration with the politics of pollution and my desire to see it stop began not altruistically, but because fishing was getting screwed…

CAPTAIN FRED LIFTON, MARCO ISLAND SUN TIMES, OCTOBER 19, 2006 His name is Gerald Nicks and he lives in Goodland. He’s a Sarasota native and has been a commercial fisherman on Florida’s Gulf Coast all of his life and he thinks he has the answer to something that’s been bothering me for about 15 years.…

CHANTELLE JANELLE, WIS TV, OCTOBER 18, 2006 (Raleigh, NC-AP) October 18, 2006 – Officials say a small chemical reaction at the site of EQ Industrial Services in Apex has been contained. It’s been nearly two weeks since a raging inferno at the same warehouse run by EQ forced thousands of people from their homes. Wednesday’s…