Leo at protest on toxic waste dump - Dordrecht - Holland - 31 January 2001
The Socialist
Party (SP)
put a protest sign on the toxic waste dump
De Stort van Troost in the national park Hollandse Biesbosch
on Wednesday morning 31 January 2001.
In the
seventies and eighties lots of (petro)chemical companies
like Shell and DuPont sold tons of toxic waste
to the waste company Troost that dumped it in the Polder
Stededijk.
The
toxic waste is still leaking into the river Beneden Merwede,
to the nearby village Sliedrecht and in the national park Hollandse Biesbosch.
The Province
Zuid-Holland already decided that it has to be
cleaned before 2004.
But still nobody wants to pay for it. The SP says Shell has to pay for it
because most of the waste comes from that oil company.
When we came there by boat the first thing we saw were the Shell drums.
The
companies and the authorities are alreay talking for years but
nothing happens.
Therefore on the erupted sign you can see a kind of calculation:
Shell stands still
+
Poison going on
=
Environmental disaster Biesbosch
I made a
live report with my mobile phone and did an interview
with Member of Parliament Remi Poppe of the SP
about this regional news on Radio Rijnmond.
© Made by Etienne Busink
