Outomaa on outo maa.
Lainaus käyttäjältä: Eugen - 16.10.08 - klo:11:18
että Somailan rannikolle dumpataan pohjaan merirosvoja jahka Venäjän Laivasto saapuu paikalle, risteilijä on matkalla ja jenkkien laivasto vahtii laivaa.....
Lainaa..Somali pirates have accused European firms of dumping toxic waste off the Somali coast and are demanding an $8m ransom for the return of a Ukranian ship they captured, saying the money will go towards cleaning up the waste.
The ransom demand is a means of "reacting to the toxic waste that has been continually dumped on the shores of our country for nearly 20 years", Januna Ali Jama, a spokesman for the pirates, based in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, said.
Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN envoy for Somalia confirmed to Al Jazeera the world body has "reliable information" that European and Asian companies are dumping toxic waste, including nuclear waste, off the Somali coastline.
"I must stress however, that no government has endorsed this act, and that private companies and individuals acting alone are responsible," he said..
But evidence of such practices literally appeared on the beaches of northern Somalia when the tsunami of 2004 hit the country.
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) reported the tsunami had washed up rusting containers of toxic waste on the shores of Puntland.
Nick Nuttall, a UNEP spokesman, told Al Jazeera that when the barrels were smashed open by the force of the waves, the containers exposed a "frightening activity" that has been going on for more than decade.
"Somalia has been used as a dumping ground for hazardous waste starting in the early 1990s, and continuing through the civil war there," he said.
"European companies found it to be very cheap to get rid of the waste, costing as little as $2.50 a tonne, where waste disposal costs in Europe are something like $1000 a tonne...
Lainaus käyttäjältä: Eugen - 13.10.08 - klo:16:24Kuski vastasi, että mitä väliä, viedäänkö kuormat eri autoilla vai ei, samaan jätekasaan ne perillä kumminkin kipataan. Sama homma oli kun meilläpäin oli jätekatoksessa pitkään lasiroskikset, oli oikein värilliselle ja kirkkaalle ja sitten sekin selvisi... lasia ei uusiokäytettä se menee kumminkin kaatopaikalle. Eli homman ainoa hyöty oli ollut, joku oli myynyt alueen taloyhtiöille kalliit kierrätyslasipöntöt!