Trafigura a belated update

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 … Continue reading

Of church bells and minarets

A bit late to the party with this one, and not that much to add except that when it comes to the Swiss passing a law to ban minarets we should remove the beam in our own eye rather than worrying about the mote in another countries. For a bit of background as this is rather late after the immediate fuss has died down, the Swiss have decided that four minarets is quite enough and they’d not like any more. As far as I can tell they don’t care who wants to build them or why. Generally speaking I’m with … Continue reading

Carter-Fuck and Trafigura at it again

So it seems that the worlds most loved law firm, Carter-Fuck, are up to their normal tricks again on behalf of that bastion of environmental concern Trafigura. My attention has been drawn to this post by Richard Wilson, it would seem that Carter-Fuck would really much rather we didn’t see a Panorama report on the wast they dumped on the Ivory Coast. So via yet another gagging order forcing the BBC to take down this video from their web site. Richard Wilson has a PDF capture of the Panorama site from googles cache before it got Carter-Fucked. (Anonymong copy) The … Continue reading