NewsWhore
01-12-2007, 06:00 PM
International organization the Blacksmith Institute, which is focused on helping resolve some of the worst environmental problems around the world, is voicing concern at the Dominican government's seemingly continual indifference, and the Environment Ministry in particular, in tackling the lead poisoning problem in Haina, to the southwest of Santo Domingo. According to Blacksmith's president Richard Fuller, and Stephen Null, who represents "Friends of children of lead", Haina has the third worst lead pollution levels in the world. They say that Dominican Environment Minister Max Puig has not responded to phone calls and requests. Haina is a major industrial area where a battery-manufacturing factory is known to have caused much of the pollution.
See http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org/site10c.php
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See http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org/site10c.php
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)