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12-18-2006, 04:50 PM
Oops! It seems that after removing 27,500 tons of fly ash, misnamed as "rock ash" in the newspapers, there is still some 10,000 tons of the stuff in Samana. The fly ash in Manzanillo is still there, intact. The environmental authorities have still not been able to transfer all the controversial deposits for safe disposal. "We thought that there were 27,000 tons, but there is evidently some ten thousand tons left," said Environmental Minister Max Puig. The government had contracted Sotramotier to transfer 27,500 tons of the ash to the Cemex factory in San Pedro de Macoris where it would be used in cement production. The contract was for US$1.0 million. One observer, a chemist from the UASD, said that the original piles of fly ash were much larger even than the 37,500 now calculated, since, according to his estimates, at least one third of the fly ash was swept into Samana Bay by the last hurricane to hit that area. The Dominican Republic government is suing AES in a court in Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
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