The newspapers in Flanders were full of it in recent weeks: heavily polluted soil and groundwater in and around Zwijndrecht, Antwerp. What is going on, what needs to be done and who is going to pay for it? We list a number of […]
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Within a radius of ten kilometres around the 3M factory in Zwijndrecht, it is not recommended to eat eggs from your own chickens or vegetables from your own garden. In Menen in West Flanders and surrounding municipalities, this has been the case for eighteen years
1,000,000. That's how many people live within a radius of 15 kilometres around the 3M site in Zwijndrecht. Do they hear all those voices, there in Brussels? On Wednesday 16 June, the Flemish Parliament will vote on the establishment of a parliamentary
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More than 15% of the more than 420 Flemish teenagers examined have too high a mix of four so-called perfluorinated compounds or PFAS in their blood. This is evident from a recent update of the Flemish Human Biomonitoring Program. A calculation last year, based on
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Although the substance has been around for decades, hardly anyone in Flanders had heard of PFOS until recently. The company premises of manufacturer 3M in Zwijndrecht and the surrounding grounds are contaminated with tons of the chemical waste. With serious risks
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Next week, the Flemish Parliament will vote on a parliamentary inquiry committee. This is one of the necessary steps to clarify the PFOS problem. Bond Beter Leefmilieu, Greenpeace & Natuurpunt Waasland also ask to look to the future and find solutions
This is it, the one and only webinar that got the ball rolling for most of us. The webinar organized by Grondrecht to provide clarity about the PFOS pollution on the Left Bank and Zwijndrecht.
20.05.2021 | Webinar PFOS the facts Read More »
Attorney Rob Bilott has been fighting DuPont, the chemical giant that deliberately poisoned his client Wilbur Tennant's farm with PFOA, for over twenty years. The lawsuit he filed exposed the largest environmental scandal in the United States. In his
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THE DEVIL WE KNOW is a must see documentary about the events surrounding the Dupont plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and far beyond. Since 1945, Dupont has been producing C8 or PFOA in Parkersburg, for the production of Teflon. PFOA is closely related
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