[ RadSafe ] Rad waste dumping off Somalia(?)

[Bill Prestwich]

see
http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2005-03/2005-03-15-voa34.cfm?moddate=2005-03-15

"Brennan, Mike (DOH)" wrote:

> I don't particularly doubt that foreign fishermen are going to Somalian
> waters and vacuuming up what they can, as you have to fish where the
> fish are, and as a world-wide community fishermen do not have a good
> record of sound stewardship of the resources.
>
> As for the claim that European governments are dumping rad and hazardous
> wastes off the Somalia so close that the barrels wash ashore: this is
> best answered in an old style computer program.
>
> 10 X=1
> 20 PRINT "HA, "
> 30 X=X+1
> 40 IF X<1000 GOTO 20
> 50 PRINT "HA!"
> 60 END
>
> The question that would need to be asked is why would anyone in Europe
> pay to have a ship go all the way to Somalia, through the Suez Canal
> (with non-trivial tolls) to dump in shallow waters off Somalia when they
> could dump it in much, much deeper waters in the Atlantic for much less
> money?  Even from the Eastern Mediterranean there are cheaper, easier
> places to illegally dump than off of Somalia.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
> Behalf Of Steven Dapra
> Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 6:40 PM
> To: radsafe at radlab.nl
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Rad waste dumping off Somalia(?)
>
> April 23
>
>         At the link below will be found an article from the Independent
> (UK) whose author (Johann Hari) claims that European governments have
> been dumping rad waste into the ocean off the coast of Somalia.  Hari is
> probably not a very reliable source, however he claims to have been told
> this by the United Nations envoy to Somalia.  True or not, has anyone
> heard any rumors about rad waste being dumped off Somalia?
>
> http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=1428
>
> Steven Dapra
> sjd at swcp.com
>
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