Posted on 05/01/2016 8:57:07 AM PDT by StCloudMoose
Hundreds of people demonstrated in Vietnam on Sunday against a Taiwanese firm they accuse of causing mass fish deaths along the country's central coast, with some also blaming the government for a sluggish response to a major environmental disaster. Though an official investigation has found no links between the fish deaths and a $10.6 billion coastal steel plant run by a unit of Taiwan's Formosa Plastics, public anger against the company has not abated. Hundreds gathered in Hanoi holding banners that said: "Formosa destroying the environment is a crime" and "Who poisoned the central region's waters?" Others said: "Formosa out of Vietnam!" and took aim at the government for being aloof in what it now describes as one of its worst environmental disasters. Demonstrations are rare in Vietnam and uniformed and plain-clothes police are usually quick to suppress them. On Sunday they cleared traffic to allow demonstrators to do a lap of a big lake in the heart of Hanoi. Huge numbers of dead fish have appeared at farms and on beaches since April 6, impacting 200 km (124 miles) of coastline in four provinces, with no known cause. The environment minister has demanded Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh dig up its waste pipe at the steel project to enable government to monitor its discharge.
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Expect a sudden spike in production of Nuoc Mam.
Good point. I will resist the sale price on Vietnamese fish sauce and stick to the Thai ones.
Some of us will stick with garum...
V ping....
Government over there likely did it themselves and need someone to blame.
Fukashima?
Formosa has a plant on the north side of Baton Rouge and one near Victoria, TX
Maybe the cause is “Agent-Orange Roughie.
That explains the odd people in Victoria, or more accurately, the people in Bloomington just south of Victoria.
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