Tag: industrial pollution

TRACEE HERBAUGH, ASSOCIATED PRESS, OCTOBER 18, 2006 Residents fish in a polluted lake in Guiyang in southwest China’s Guizhou province Sunday, Oct. 15, 2006. Chronic pollution and chemical accidents have tainted most of China’s canals, rivers and lakes, and the country is suffering from a critical water shortage. (AP Photo) NEW YORK — More than…

The Associated Press, October 17, 2006 ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast Not long after hundreds of tons of toxic waste was jettisoned around Ivory Coast’s main city under cover of darkness, Jean-Jacques Kakou awoke like thousands of others here to an overpowering stench that burned his eyes and made it hard to breathe. Three weeks later, he…

Collin Sick, www.infoshop.org, October 17 2006 On October 12, 2006, Indigenous People’s Day, members from 7 valley groups stood outside of the Mexican consulate in Phoenix to say “No!” to a proposed chemical waste dump to be located outside the O’odham sacred village of Quitovac, in Mexico. The site would potentially treat and separate up…

Wade Rawlins, The News & Observer, October15, 2006 Burned barrels are left at the plant. Staff Photo by Ethan Hyman The lead investigator with the U.S. Chemical Safety Board said today the exact cause of the explosive fire a week ago at the Environmental Quality Co.’s chemical waste facility in Apex may never be known.…

Toby Coleman, McClatchy Newspapers, October 15, 2006 APEX, N.C. – Few noticed the EQ Industrial Services Co. warehouse on Investment Boulevard until it turned into a volcano. Parents did not fret about sending children to gymnastics lessons next door to the inconspicuous building. A developer put up townhouses on a nearby parcel. Most in the…

MARK KIESLING, NORTHWEST INDIANA TIMES, OCTOBER 15, 2006 Whether it’s the ancient history of Watergate or the fresh headlines surrounding the congressional page scandal, people want to know the answer to the same question: “Who knew about this, and how early did they know it?” People also want those answers about the former Feddeler Landfill…

NEW SCIENTIST, OCTOBER 12, 2OO6 Humans are undoubtedly the most dominant species the Earth has ever known. In just a few thousand years we have swallowed up more than a third of the planet’s land for our cities, farmland and pastures. By some estimates, we now commandeer 40 per cent of all its productivity. And…

The Concord Journal, October 12, 2006 We’re very pleased that Massachusetts recently passed legislation to reduce pollution by products that contain mercury. On July 28 Gov. Mitt Romney signed into law the new bill that phases out the use of such mercury-containing products as thermostats, electrical switches, and blood-pressure cuffs. The new law further requires…

THE NEWS & OBSERVER, RALEIGH, N.C., OCTOBER 12, 2006 A fireball goes up over the Apex site, photographed by the Observer’s Chris Seward First reports said the ominous blaze at the EQ Industrial Services waste facility in Apex was generating clouds of deadly chlorine. Emergency workers decided to evacuate 17,000 residents (28, including some first…

Juliet Rowan, New Zealand Herald, October 11, 2006 Opossums, target for poison in New Zealand Eighteen people were taken to Rotorua Hospital yesterday after inhaling toxic fumes as possum bait burned. Workers at a Lakeland Helicopters hangar in Murupara, southwest of Rotorua, were preparing the bait for a drop when it caught fire. Fourteen workers…

BOB BURTMAN, THE INDEPENDENT, DURHAM, N.C., OCTOBER 11, 2006 The frenzy surrounding the Apex chemical fire provided as much excitement as the smoke and flames. A swarm of reporters, regulators, lawyers and politicians descended on the scene and provided breathless, non-stop coverage for the masses. In the information age, it’s volume that counts. The scene…

ELIZABETH DUNBAR, ASSOCIATED PRESS, OCTOBER 9, 2006 APEX, N.C. – An official for EQ Industrial Services on Monday said the company committed no wrongdoing in a chemical fire last week that caused the town of Apex to ask thousands of people to evacuate. Scott Maris, vice president of regulatory affairs for the Michigan-based company, said…

ANNA-LISA PAUL, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO EXPRESS, OCTOBER 10, 2006 Camille Roopnarine, sanitary engineer at Caribbean Environmental Health Institute, presents Anthony Ramnarine, Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Public Utilities, with the results of the National Hazardous Waste Inventory Study for Trinidad and Tobago at Crowne Plaza, Port of Spain, yesterday. While larger generators of…

WASTE NEWS, OCTOBER 9, 2006 An Ohio chemical and hazardous waste company will pay a $11,250 penalty to settle hazardous waste violations, the state Environmental Protection Agency said. Hukill Chemical Corp. of Bedford, Ohio, caused hazardous waste to be transported to a facility not permitted to accept such material. The company also shipped hazardous waste…

RADIO NEW ZEALAND, OCTOBER 8, 2006 Tasman National Park, Nelson, on New Zealand’s South Island A Nelson community group wants assurances that DDT dumped near a stream 30 years ago is not causing a local hazard. Formerly confidential records have been released by the Tasman District Council, identifying 12 sites where chemical waste was dumped…