Trafigura poison for profit update
September 20th, 2009Further to recent post. I really don’t want this to fall into Bell-Pottinger’s memory hole. The multi-million-profit oil trading business is getting away with “compensation” worth less than the cost of medications. Justice is too important to be left to lawyers.
The local contractor, the bottom end of the Trafigura poisoning-for-profit venture? He got 20 years jail. Probably deserved. But not as richly as the traders deserve it. Instead they get time to apply their “creative” techniques to molecular biochemistry:
It also denies that the waste – gasoline residues mixed with caustic washings – could have led to the serious illnesses the residents claim, which include skin burns, bleeding and breathing problems
This, folks, is why science is good. They’re putting forward a bold new theory, we now need to carry out a simple, controlled experiment to see whether this is actually the case:
- Mix petrol and quicklime
- Apply to skin
- Observe effect
All we need are some volunteers to test the hypothesis. Perhaps Tim Bell, Peter Carter-Ruck and Claude Dauphin would oblige? After all there’s no proof…
