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Saturday, July 24, 2010

Dutch court fines firm over Ivory Coast toxic waste

Waste removal experts work to remove hazardous black sludge from a garbage dump in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Sunday, Sept. 17, 2006. A clean-up operation began Sunday to remove hundreds of tons of toxic waste from Ivory Coast´s largest city as the gove
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AMSTERDAM (AFP) – A Dutch court on Friday slapped a one million euro fine on multinational shipping company Trafigura for illegally exporting toxic waste to Ivory Coast that the West African nation says killed 17 people. "The court sentences Trafigura to a fine of one million euros", equivalent to 1.3 million dollars, presiding...
Posted by Muhammad Usman Ali at 9:44 AM

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