Again rather late with getting round to posting this update, but for completeness sake I think it best not over looked. Sadly it seems that Trafigura and carter-fuck have had thier day in court and the BBC have issued an apology in open court., as well as £250,000. the full apology from newsnight can be found here. The gist of the statement is basically that experts hadn’t been able to find any link between being exposed to highly toxic slops and “deaths, miscarriages and chronic and long-term injuries”. Of course you might be inclined to still think that perhaps shipping such toxic slops to a poor african nation to be dumped rather than dealing with it in proper facilities isn’t the most ethical, pleasant or enviromentally sound thing to do. But that of course wasn’t the matter before the court.
For more details go read Old Holborn‘s take on the matter.
