toxid mud blowup in Java


	toxid mud blowup in Java

syncopath

11-21-2007 11:03 PM

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ecological disaster

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11-22-2007 7:11 AM

Antara

I knew nothing of this, terrible

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On May 29th the toxic, sulfur flavored mud began to flow in East Java. Since then it’s covered 240 hectares of land and continues to grow 50,000 cubic meters every day. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.benettontalk.com/2006/08/toxic_mud_vs_east_java_vs_pt_l.html">
Seven meters deep, the mud has buried four villages, nineteen factories and has displaced 11,000 people from their homes. But this is no mere natural disaster, it’s an unnatural one. The mud spring erupted at PT Lapindo Brantas’ oil drill site. They’ve just accepted that they may have caused <A href="http://environment.guardian.co.uk/waste/story/0,,1857057,00.html " target="_blank">the world's largest disaster of its kind</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.benettontalk.com/2006/08/toxic_mud_vs_east_java_vs_pt_l.html">Lapindo is paying rent for the 11,000 homeless, two years of moving costs, a monthly allowance for food, negotiations for buying the destroyed houses, medical treatment for some thousands, two years of compensation for farmers, and the relocation of destroyed factories.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.benettontalk.com/2006/08/toxic_mud_vs_east_java_vs_pt_l.html">"The best-case scenario [for stopping the mudflow] is now mid-November, but I have to admit it might never be stopped."</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B48B8175-E145-4B12-89D6-73A95E604613/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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