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 [...]

Mihika Basu, Mumbai Newsline, October 29, 2006 Patan Village (Lonavala), October 29: Hundred homes for the homeless. Two thousand volunteers from India and abroad to build them in a week. The 23rd Jimmy Carter Work Project (JCWP) at Patan village near Lonavala is on. On Sunday, the former US President and Nobel Peace Prize winner [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]