RESIDENTS, OFFICIALS REACH ACROSS INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY TO BLOCK SECRET TOXIC LANDFILL
12.5.06 - Leído 115 veces. Enviar esta notaBy Talli Nauman*
Within the last decade, residents on opposite sides of the international border have struggled against developers’ faulty proposals for toxic burial sites. In the meantime, the Mexican government quietly has approved six more hazardous waste burial site proposals
ARIZONA, EUA/SONORA, México; 5 Diciembre 2006.- With citizen pressure mounting, U.S. environmental officials have told Mexican counterparts to guarantee public safety or reject the proposed La Choya hazardous waste landfill near the Arizona-Sonora state boundary.
Indigenous government and environmental activists at the international crossroads want to nix the private, commercial project. The 247.1-acre (1 square kilometer) site is 25 miles (41 kms) south of the U.S.-Mexico border in the municipality of Gen.
Plutarco Elias Calles. It is conceived to handle 45,000 metric tons annually of hazardous industrial waste over a 50-year period.
Within the last decade, residents on opposite sides of the international border have struggled against developers’ faulty proposals for toxic burial sites. In the meantime, the Mexican government quietly has approved six more hazardous waste burial site proposals.
* Talli Nauman is an environmental analyst for the Americas Program (www.americaspolicy.org).
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