lexmackie
08-28-2010, 05:40 AM
and also corruption, I think.
About a week ago the headlines informed us that Angosturas highly toxic effluent, was a/ going through WASA pipelines to the Beetham Treatment facility. But then, due to a monumental screwup in design and implementation, many years ago and well known, it poured throigh the intended settlement pond, right into Caroni Swamp.
Moreover that this appalling situation has been going on for some ten years with nothing being done to rectify it. And that now, the original cost of 260 millions for those ponds is to be near eclipsed if they are to actually fix it.
Then, within 24 hours, the entire topic disappeared off the news, entirely.
For what? Perhaps another 10 years of "see no evil, hear no evil, and do damn-all?"
To many, as to me, it is nothing short of criminal that Angostura's process residues, are not being taken care of by Angostura. We just know, don't we the very tangible daisy chain that existed between that company's hierarchy and the government of the prior day. Is it therefore such a stretch to imagine how the situation may have been "smoothed over".
But it was well known and even talked about at that time, between a senior company manager and a business friend of mine, that this incredibly polluting poison was just pouring through the WASA drains, day after day, year after year. And as was confrimed in the articles this week, WASA both knew what the poisonous material was / and still is, and further that it has been known for more than a decade now, that it was going absolutely nowhere, other than into Caroni Swamp.
WASA top managers and several echelons below them, plus the Governments that have successively over time employed them in that capacity, are guilty of major environmental crimes. Further, no-one so involved can ever be trusted to pontificate on their respective concerns for the environment, ever again.
Oh, but wait now! The "Head honcho then, and again now, was and is, ........?
Now that's rewards for faithful service!
About a week ago the headlines informed us that Angosturas highly toxic effluent, was a/ going through WASA pipelines to the Beetham Treatment facility. But then, due to a monumental screwup in design and implementation, many years ago and well known, it poured throigh the intended settlement pond, right into Caroni Swamp.
Moreover that this appalling situation has been going on for some ten years with nothing being done to rectify it. And that now, the original cost of 260 millions for those ponds is to be near eclipsed if they are to actually fix it.
Then, within 24 hours, the entire topic disappeared off the news, entirely.
For what? Perhaps another 10 years of "see no evil, hear no evil, and do damn-all?"
To many, as to me, it is nothing short of criminal that Angostura's process residues, are not being taken care of by Angostura. We just know, don't we the very tangible daisy chain that existed between that company's hierarchy and the government of the prior day. Is it therefore such a stretch to imagine how the situation may have been "smoothed over".
But it was well known and even talked about at that time, between a senior company manager and a business friend of mine, that this incredibly polluting poison was just pouring through the WASA drains, day after day, year after year. And as was confrimed in the articles this week, WASA both knew what the poisonous material was / and still is, and further that it has been known for more than a decade now, that it was going absolutely nowhere, other than into Caroni Swamp.
WASA top managers and several echelons below them, plus the Governments that have successively over time employed them in that capacity, are guilty of major environmental crimes. Further, no-one so involved can ever be trusted to pontificate on their respective concerns for the environment, ever again.
Oh, but wait now! The "Head honcho then, and again now, was and is, ........?
Now that's rewards for faithful service!