Toxic to the left of you, Toxic to the right of youâ¦â¦..
A former French aircraft carrier â rejected by India and Egypt as being too toxic to be broken up â has arrived at its final resting place in Teesside.
The vessel contains 700 tonnes of asbestos-contaminated materials and was recalled to France from India in 2006 amid concerns over its toxic elements.
Jean Kennedy, leader of the Friends of Hartlepool, a local community group which led the fight against the dumping said:
âHere was a ship laden with the worst possible toxins and they want to bring it to this country to get rid of it. Weâve now got a ticking, toxic time bomb and weâre going to live in a nightmare haze of toxicity for the rest of our lives. We live in a town where weâre breathing it every day of our lives.â
Weâve had Toxic assets from the West, Toxic rain from the East, Toxic waste from the South, and a Toxic Prime Minister from the North, how can plucky little Britain survive all this?
February 9, 2009 at 00:34
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Which brings me back to â¦â¦â¦â¦ putting electric fencing along Hadrianâs Wall
and invite all the Scots to make a brand new Scotland on this side of it!
Then we can dump all the horrible people on the Scottish side â¦â¦â¦â¦â¦ and
have one lovely big prison!
February 8, 2009 at 19:39
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Plans are afoot to dump nuclear waste in Cornwall. As a rural, sparsely
populated area it would seem to be a good choice. As a region with more
frequent and stronger earthquakes than anywhere north of the Alps it probably
is not.
February 8, 2009 at 18:44
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Sadly it is almost inevitable that Teesside has become a dumping
ground.
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