Nuclear Waste Disposal Doesn’t Have to Be So Expensive: Mafia
The enterprising corporate arm of Mafia has found an answer (!) to the age old problem of energy growth: Go Nuclear!
And don’t worry about the astronomical cost of “disposing” of the permanent waste. They will dump it in the ocean for you at premium prices.
Italian authorities have located the wreck of a vessel with 180 barrels of toxic waste on board, which they say was sunk by the mafia, off the south coast of Italy. The sunken ship is reported to be one of more than 30 scuttled by Cosa Nostra.
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Italian officials say the 110-meter long sunken vessel, which lay in 500 meters of water in the Tyrrhenian sea, may contain radioactive waste, a report said.
The ship’s location was revealed by Francesco Fonti, an ex-member of Calabria’s feared ‘Ndrangheta crime group, who confessed to using explosives to sink this vessel and two others.
The ship lay less than 28 km off the coast of Calabria in southwestern Italy, and was filmed by a remote-controlled submarine. A short video is available at: toxic dump.
Video images show an empty barrel lay on the seabed, which appears to have fallen out of a gaping hole in the sunken vessel’s damaged hull.
“There could be problems of toxins and heavy metals … this is an issue for the whole international community,” Silvestro Greco, head of Calabria’s environment agency, was reported as saying..
Greco said investigators believed there were 32 ships carrying toxic waste sunk by the mafia since the introduction of tighter environmental legislation in the 1980s made illegal waste disposal a lucrative business for crime groups.
“The Mediterranean is 0.7 percent of the world’s seas. If in this tiny portion there are more than 30 (toxic waste) shipwrecks, imagine what there could be elsewhere,” he said.
Related News Links:
- Toxic shipwreck calls for action
- Mafia ‘sank nuclear waste ship’
- Italy finds wreck of toxic waste ship sunk by mafia
Related FEWW Links:
- STOP Killing Our Oceans!
- Back from the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”
- The Garbage Patch [You Tube Video]
- Algalita Photo Gallery
- Pt. 1 “Plastic in the Ocean” Interview with Capt. Charles Moore [You Tube Video]
- Pt. 2 “Plastic in the Ocean” Interview with Dr. Marcus Eriksen
- Southern Ocean already losing ability to absorb CO2
- Oceans, Where Life Started, Are Dying – Part IV : Researchers found evidence of corrosive water about 20 miles off the west coast of North America from Canada to Mexico.
- Human carbon emissions make oceans corrosive : ‘Carbon dioxide spewed by human activities has made ocean water so acidic that it is eating away at the shells and skeletons of starfish, coral, clams and other sea creatures …’
- The Eight Steps that Help Kill More of Our Fish : How Your Car’s Exhaust Emissions Helps Create Dead Zones and Kill Our Fish.
- Global warming could starve oceans of oxygen: study : Areas of the eastern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans with low amounts of dissolved oxygen have expanded in the past 50 years, apparently in line with rising temperatures.
- The Floating Toxic Garbage Island : A patch of garbage twice as large as the continental United States and dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch floats in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in North Pacific Gyre.
- Oceans, Where Life Started, Are Dying – Part III : Tourism: The Most Destructive Human Activity After Warfare
- Oceans, Where Life Started, Are Dying – Part II : Major Problems: Fertilizer Runoff; Tourism; Coastal Developments [and Ocean Warming due to climate change]
- Oceans, Where Life Started, Are Dying – Part I : Our Oceans Are Now Dying!
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