The citizen collective Grondrecht, which was founded in response to the PFOS crisis in Zwijndrecht and the surrounding area, is asking that all residents of Zwijndrecht and the Antwerp district of Linkeroever be given the opportunity to undergo a blood test. A study among 800 residents of […]
Grondrecht, a citizens' collective launched in response to the PFOS problem in Antwerp, responds to the analysis of the population survey in which blood samples from 800 neighbours of 3M were tested for PFAS values. "The situation is very serious. However, it seems logical to us that
Three days after Apache's revelation about the PFAS smoke bomb with which chemical company 3M is slowly poisoning the Flemish groundwater, the enforcement department of the Flemish government's Department of Environment urged the chemical company to bring it to book. That
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The impact of the emission of 'short PFAS' such as PFBA and PFBS via the chimney of chemical company 3M is a cause for concern. Concentrations of the chemical substances were recently measured in the groundwater several kilometres away from the factory in Zwijndrecht above
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23.09.2021 | META: Jean-Luc Wietor EEB European Environmental Bureau The PFAS scandal surrounding the 3M factory in Antwerp has continued to unfold, teetering ever closer to the realms of absurdity. While Belgians are no strangers to surrealism, the scandal is
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Emails, internal memos and legal advice that Apache was able to access indicate that Lantis and chemical company 3M have worked more closely together in recent years than official communications suggest. The goal: 'minimizing the total damage for both parties'. 21.09.2021 | apache:
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For years, 3M emitted huge amounts of the extremely heavy greenhouse gas HFC-23. The chemical company did not report this pollution until 2019. The Flemish government then gave the company 341,235 euros in 'strategic ecological support', intended to build a plant that would
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In the Left Bank project area, 460,000 m³ of heavily PFOS-contaminated soil would initially be excavated and packed by Lantis, the developer of Oosterweel. Ultimately, it will only be 160,000 m³. This is evident from internal documents from Lantis that Apache, De
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During the works on the Oosterweel connection in the Left Bank project area in Antwerp, 460,000 m³ of heavily PFAS-contaminated soil would initially be excavated and packed. In the end, it will only be 160,000 m³. The vast majority of it will be dumped in the controversial
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A predecessor of the Department of Environment had a plan ready in 2015 to bundle all self-monitoring reports of the 800 most polluting companies. The Bourgeois government whistled back its administration in consultation with the chemical federation Essenscia and the business network Voka. Nevertheless
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