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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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 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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OVAM did not conclude that the PFAS contamination in the vicinity of the 3M chemical plant would not pose a risk to public health. The political steering committee of Lantis, including Bart De Wever, Ben Weyts and Joke Schauvliege, was indeed aware of this.
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According to Danish environmental epidemiologist Philippe Grandjean, the consequences of the PFAS pollution in and around the 3M factory in Zwijndrecht are greater than previously assumed. 'The substances are harmful to immunity, especially in children. The concentration of antibodies
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Lantis, the developer of Oosterweel, did not find it necessary to raise the issue of PFAS pollution in the final stretch of the famous Future Covenant between government and action groups. The question of whether communication is a spanner in the works
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The passage of Joke Schauvliege (CD&V), Ben Weyts (N-VA) and Bart De Wever (N-VA) in the Flemish PFAS-PFOS investigation committee was a waste of time. Instead of answers and explanations, the political protagonists only served up platitudes and diversionary manoeuvres. decisions is well
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Le Corbusier once dreamed of turning Linkeroever and Zwijndrecht into a dream city, but in 2021 it is a heavily PFAS-polluted area due to the actions of chemical company 3M. Do the residents feel the same way? Are they afraid of
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