Re: Dioxin costs Belgium almost $1 bn

[Ralph Ryder <Ralph@tcpublications.freeserve.co.uk>]

In article <3.0.6.32.19990916153006.008de250@essential.org>, Neil Tangri
<ntangri@essential.org> writes
>Dioxin seen costing Belgium $899 mln -
>                govt source
>
>                EU: September 15, 1999
>
>                BRUSSELS - Belgium's crisis over dioxin
>                contamination in food is set to cost the country's
>                Treasury an estimated 35 billion Belgian francs ($898.8
>                million), a government source said yesterday. 

Don't you think its strange the dioxin contamination should cost the
country so much if its really true, as industry and supporters of
incineration have been claiming for years, that: "no-one ever died from
dioxin"?
Earlier this year Professor Dame Barbara Clayton, a greatly respected
member of numerous influential government committees, gave evidence to
the House of Lords on Waste Incineration saying the worst thing caused
by dioxin is chloracne "a nasty skin complaint." 

Perhaps she should have contacted the Belgium government with her view,
or perhaps she would like to consume some of the contaminated produce to
back up her words, after all what is a bit of acne at her age?

It is through misleading people like her that Britons now face an uphill
battle against the building of 160 odd incinerators. 








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