'A sun as black as my lungs': how corruption crucified a polluted Albania city
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'A sun as black as my lungs': how corruption crucified a polluted Albania city
Environmental inspectors who rushed to two fires discovered 318 tonnes of toxic industrial dust that had been stored for months in a chrome factory, AlbChrome, with no transfer contracts for its treatment or safe disposal. The site, owned by the Turkish group Yildirim, was temporarily shut. It is the latest in a litany of disasters to befall one of the most benighted industrial cities in Europe, repeatedly blanketed in lethal smoke from similar …
‘A sun as black as my lungs’: how corruption crucified a polluted Albania city
The Albanian city of Elbasan was engulfed in smoke from its steelworks, revealing corruption and environmental mismanagement, with hazardous materials improperly stored at a local factory.
Black smoke again suffocated this industrial city in central Albania, and the inspectors found 318 tons of dust there... Read more In Elbasan, the air poisons and corruption protects the culprits appeared first on Le Singulier.
Still burning hazardous waste, the inhabitants thought.Dépêché on the site of two fires inside the complex, the inspectors of the National Agency for the Environment discovered 318 tons of dust...
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