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Balkan Death Grip
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12 Jul 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Balkan Death Grip Fleeing extreme poverty, thousands of Albanians are squatting in and near the abandoned Porto Romano chemical plant -- one of the most severely contaminated sites in the Balkans, with soil and groundwater pollutants at 4,000 times the levels considered acceptable by the European Union. Despite admonitions from United Nations experts, the Albanian government has failed to put up fences or warn ... |
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| Topics: business, pollution and waste, United Nations (all these topics) |
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