The Flemish environmental enforcement policy is terminally ill and no politician is to blame for it. This is how the final report of the PFOS-PFAS investigation committee can be summarised somewhat lapidarily. 'Just because a politician says something does not mean that people believe it', says whistleblower […]
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Politicians do little to restore confidence, says Marc Reynebeau. The PFOS report contains a sharp critique of Flemish political culture. 30.03.2022 | DS: Marc Reynebeau Read the full article in the newspaper…
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The parliamentary inquiry committee PFOS-PFAS is saving the cabbage and the goat and therefore does not point out political responsibilities for the biggest Flemish environmental scandal of the past decade. In its final report, the committee does give the political steering committee of Lantis between
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The government decided in 2008 that the chemical company 3M did not need to thoroughly clean up its polluted sites. The reason? Too expensive. To clean up is to make healthy or purify. At least that is what the dictionary teaches us. But in the case of the chemical plant
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Hoboken – About fifty interested people sacrificed their Sunday afternoon to attend the first PFAS forum in the Hoboken Blikfabriek. At the request of the citizen collective Grondrecht, scientific and legal experts came to inform them about the state of affairs in the
In addition to the judicial investigation into the PFOS pollution, the Antwerp public prosecutor's office has also opened an investigation against 3M for concealing a leak of caustic soda. The public prosecutor's office confirmed this to De Tijd. 19.02.2022 | Het Nieuwsblad Read the full
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The plans of the Antwerp council to build a new district barely two kilometers from the chemical company 3M are met with disbelief from toxicologist Jacob de Boer. 'You don't want to expose future residents to excessively high concentrations of PFAS. Only
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The Flemish Government has acted against the legal obligations in the PFAS scandal and the Oosterweel dossier. The public prosecutor's office has sufficient ammunition to target, among other things, the settlement between Oosterweel developer Lantis and chemical company 3M regarding the pollution. 15.02.2022 | apache: Walter
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Barely two kilometres from the 3M chemical factory, a new Antwerp city district is being built. To achieve this, the Antwerp council of mayor Bart De Wever (N-VA) wants to adjust the existing building conditions for the 21.5 hectare area, tailored to project developer Ghelamco. Already in
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MIEKE WINDEY THOMAS GOORDEN JOERI THIJS TYCHO VAN HAUWAERT We do not want to 'sabotage' the Oosterweel shipyard. Provide local residents with clarity about the environmental standards used, the prevention of further pollution and a substantiated plan for the remediation of their living environment and the
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