According to the Earthmoving Commission, the works on the Scheldt tunnel on the Antwerp Left Bank can continue without additional risks to public health and the environment. A few interventions should suffice to prevent further contamination with PFOS. However, the standards used by the commission are
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While Flemish politicians are bickering about stricter discharge standards for 3M, the outdated remediation approach of the company site is causing a much larger inflow of PFOS into the Scheldt. 15.07.2021 | apache: Tom Cochez Read the full article in the newspaper…
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The environmental permit that the province of Antwerp approved in September 2020 gives chemical company 3M the right to discharge thousands of kilos of PFBS and PFBA into the Scheldt until June 2022. These are substances that, like PFOS, belong to the group
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Residents of the 3M site urgently need a clear view of the existing PFOS contamination based on current standards. The doubt that is still being sown causes confusion, unrest and anger. Residents and companies within the perimeter around 3M
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Can the Scheldt tunnel on the Left Bank be excavated safely? Client Lantis is confident that it can move a million cubic meters of soil that is heavily contaminated with PFOS completely risk-free. Although not everyone is convinced of this. The question
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Over the past ten years, 3M Belgium has paid its shareholders over 225 million euros in dividends. This amount is in stark contrast to the amounts that 3M provides for the remediation of the heavily PFOS-contaminated industrial sites in Zwijndrecht.
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A large part of the European population is said to ingest more PFAS daily than is safe according to the standards recently calculated by the European Food Safety Authority EFSA. This is partly due to drinking water that contains excessively high concentrations of these harmful chemicals. Main culprit
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Power politician, manager without compassion and mandate champion. There are more politicians who can be described like this, but Koen Kennis, the Antwerp alderman responsible for Mobility and Finance, among other things, sits on a great many chairs at the same time in the PFOS dossier.
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PFOS is just one of many hazardous substances that are measured in far too high concentrations in water, soil, humans and animals. Flanders only drew up a PFAS action plan in 2019, while the problems with these types of substances have been around for more than
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Chemical producer 3M from Zwijndrecht was fined 7,500 euros at the end of last year for excessively high PFOS concentrations in discharged rainwater. This was confirmed by the Antwerp public prosecutor's office and the Department of Environment. The violation of the standard for PFOS occurred in 2019. The
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