Russia TV’s “Vesti Nedeli” Sunday feature on 8 June highlighted the plight of an area in Russia’s northwestern region of Karelia, the site of a major aluminium producer, whose residents have “lived in dreadful environmental conditions for decades”. Children and adults alike suffer from fluorosis. The concentration of cancerous substances is massive. One man has […]
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Group Of Residents Sues Chemical Firms
Nearly 340 people filed suit Wednesday in circuit court in Madison County against three major chemical companies, claiming that they suffered poisoning from lead and other chemicals discarded as waste by the companies’ plants in Southern Illinois. Several of the plaintiffs live in Ellis Grove, Ill., in Randolph County. Other plaintiffs include Charlene Mercurio of […]
Salmon farmers threaten to leave if aluminum smelter is built
Salmon farmers in the Aysen province of southern Chile threatened to pull out of the area if the Alumysa aluminum smelter project of Canada’s Noranda (NYSE: NRD) goes ahead, Santiago’s La Segunda newspaper reported. The Chilean association of salmon farmers claimed the plant would contaminate the pristine zone’s water with 300,000t/y of fluoride, which would […]
Aluminium smelting plant should not be used to justify Bakun
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SAM is extremely troubled by the revelation of the Sarawak State Government early this week that it is seriously considering to allow a Dubai-based company to set up an aluminium smelting plant in Sarawak to take advantage of the cheap hydroelectric power from Bakun. To use the development of such an energy-intensive, polluting industry to […]
The great red mud experiment that went radioactive
Quentin Treasure was a member of a local land-care group when he was approached to take part in an unusual experiment by the West Australian Agricultural Department. The department wanted to spread a reddish substance over his farmland to see if it would stop unwanted phosphorus from entering waterways. The bonus, Mr Treasure was assured, […]
Alcoa costs order to affect hundreds
Aluminium company Alcoa has been ordered to pay the medical costs of a former employee diagnosed with bladder cancer 12 years after working at its Geelong plant. The decision may affect more than 7000 past and present workers. County Court Judge Graeme Hicks yesterday found Geoffrey Stevens’ work as an operator in the plant’s pot […]
Salmon producers, doctors, environmentalists, criticize Noranda’s proposed Aluminum plant in Chile
The Association of Salmon and Trout Producers said they reject the Region XI Alumysa project because of a number of problems detected in the Environmental Impact Study (EIA) carried out by Environmental Management Consulting for the salmon farmers. Victor Hugo Puchi, president of the association, said the project could devastate the salmon sector in southern […]
BBC: Russian community relocated to escape fluoride pollution from aluminum plant
[Presenter] Now back to domestic news. Irkutsk ecologists have carried out more research work in the area of the Bratsk Aluminium Plant. They have proven that poisonous substances discharged by the plant’s smokestacks for many years are extremely dangerous for local residents. Local authorities have been impressed by the collected data. Officials say that they […]
Fluoride pollution from aluminum plant in Tibet
The ancient bus toiled up through golden canola fields and ripening apricot orchards, stopping only for a quick lunch at a Muslim restaurant before resuming the long climb. Could this really be Tibet? Outside were whitecapped Muslims and Chinese checkpoints, but in the bus Tibetan nomads, their city business done, were on their way home […]
‘Civil Action’ lawyer takes on pollution, corruption at Ormet Aluminum
COLUMBUS – In a meeting room at a downtown hotel here, Jan Schlictmann waits for his 10 a.m. appointment. He doesn’t look a bit like John Travolta, who portrayed him in the film A Civil Action. It was based on Jonathan Harr’s 1995 book about Mr. Schlichtmann’s battle against corporate polluters. It was Mr. Schlichtmann […]