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Cote d'Ivoire: Toxic dumping case reaches court

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繁體中文 · 象牙海岸:毒廢棄物傾倒案開庭
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Cote d'Ivoire

L'actualite de Cote d'Ivoire writes that twelve people, including the head of Tommy, a local waste processing company, are set to appear before a court in Abidjan later this month; they are charged with “poisoning or conspiracy to poison” for illegally dumping 500 tons of toxic waste.  Tommy was under contract with Trafigura, a Dutch energy company, to process the waste after Trafigura decided it was too expensive to process in Amsterdam.

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