..."The Eagle Ford dock was previously the site of a commercial waste-management facility under the ownership of ASARCO LLC subsidiary Encycle. Due to environmental litigation, the companies entered bankruptcy in 2005 and ASARCO made any agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to put $10 million of a nearly $2 billion settlement toward cleaning up the Corpus Christi site.

In 2014, Eagle Ford Terminals bought the 72-acre site from Encycle and began removing what remained of the former waste-management facility, finishing cleanup on the site in 2016..."

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/news/2019/09/13/crudecarrying-ship-pulls-into-new-corpus-christi.html

Press release on copper smelting players

It is interesting that article denying 73 page " 1998 us doj epa cofidential for settlement purposes only document" is wrong just because GAO did a report about how military handled waste (but was clearly stayed NOT to be an investigation into what asarco had done).  How did this article move to #1 spot 🤔😃😂😵. 

And also amazing to see this blog ( if you search for "asarco secret document"), pull up clean up trustee work ( he was directed to not deal with the invoices in the 1998  73 page confidential for setylement purposes only document between adarco, epa and us doj.

For a long time- yrs- if you googled "asarco secret document" you pulled up a lot of epgtlo hits ( my blog, not associated with GTLO).  Now, the "politically correct detours around this inconvenience of what the nytimes published 10/06 are getting google-higher and higher placements.

A coincidence? 
Just read the 73 page document and nytimes article for yourself and decide. Go to the source: the 73 pg doc and the nytimes front page coverage. 
Sierra blanca dump site activist bill guerra addington was correct when he said that the 73 page report was a national story.   He said if published non nationally that "they" ?? Would bury the document.

In 1998 when that secret asarco epa us doj document was drafted, the us epa had publicly reported that el pado tx was most radioactive city in usa- hotter beta radiation in water and soils thanneven oakridge tn or hanford wa.

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Toxic waste dumping by the 'Ndrangheta

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Calabrian coast

The 'Ndrangheta, a criminal organization from Calabria (Italy) has been involved in radioactive wastedumping since the 1980s. Ships with toxic and radioactive waste were sunk off the Italian coast. In addition, vessels were allegedly sent to Somalia and other developing countries with toxic waste, including radioactive waste cargoes, which were either sunk with the ship or buried on land. The introduction of more rigorous environmental legislation in the 1980s made illegal waste dumping a lucrative business for organized crime groups in Italy.^[1]

A 1995 parliamentary waste commission report spoke of the "possible existence of national and international trafficking in radioactive waste, managed by business and criminal lobbies, which are believed to operate also with the approval of institutional subjects belonging to countries and governments of the European Union and outside the EU." Its conclusions noted "interferences and threats" against investigators, and were critical of ENEA, Italy's state energy research agency, and their management of nuclear waste.^[2]

Waste dumping off Italian coastEdit

The 'Ndrangheta, an Italian mafia-type syndicate, has been accused by pentito Francesco Fonti, a former member of 'Ndrangheta, of sinking at least 30 ships loaded with toxic waste, much of it radioactive. In 2005, Fonti revealed the conspiracy in the news magazine L'espresso. His statements led to widespread investigations into the radioactive waste disposal rackets, involving Giorgio Comerio and his disposal company, the Odm (Oceanic Disposal Management).^[3]

Legambiente, an Italian NGO for the protection of the environment, provided the public prosecutor’s office with all the data collected by Legambiente since 1994 concerning the disappearance of at least 40 ships in Mediterranean waters.^[4] Over two decades, Italian prosecutors have looked into more than 30 suspicious deep-water sinkings. They suspect that Italian and foreign industrialists have acted in league with the 'Ndrangheta, and possibly government agencies, to use the Mediterranean as a dumping ground. Vessels that sank in fair weather had suspicious cargo, sent no mayday or the crew vanished.^[2]

According to Fonti, a manager of ENEA paid the clan to get rid of 600 drums of toxic and radioactive waste from Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, and the US, with Somalia as the destination, where the waste was buried after buying off local politicians. Former employees of ENEA are suspected of paying the criminals to take waste off their hands in the 1980s and 1990s. Shipments to Somalia continued into the 1990s, while the 'Ndrangheta clan also blew up shiploads of waste, including radioactive hospital waste, and sending them to the sea bed off the Calabrian coast.^[5]

Fonti personally sank three ships and identified a wreck located 28 kilometres off the coast of Cetraro, in Calabria, by environmental workers as MV Cunskyand says he sank it himself in 1992, complete with 120 barrels of toxic and radioactive waste. He said 'Ndrangheta received £100,000 for the job.^[1][6][7] Fonti had been put on the job by his boss Sebastiano Romeo of the 'Ndrangheta clan from San Luca in collaboration with Giuseppe Giorgi. Another 'Ndrangheta boss involved was Natale Iamonte who sank ships near Melito di Porto Salvo.^[8]

However, the vessel they surveyed off Cetraro in deep waters off the coast of Calabria turned out to be a passenger steamship sunk by a German submarine in 1917. Consequently, one of the prosecutors questioned the reliability of Fonti on the alleged sinkings, although his collaboration with the authorities since 1994 had resulted in high-profile arrests of 'Ndrangheta members involved in drug trafficking.^[9]

Alleged delivery of toxic waste to SomaliaEdit

Both Fonti and environmental group Legambiente claimed vessels were sent to Somalia and other developing countries such as Kenya and Zaire with toxic cargoes, which were either sunk with the ship or buried on land. Legambiente alleges that local rebel groups were given weapons in exchange for receiving the waste ships. Fonti claims that Italian TV journalist Ilaria Alpi and her cameraman Miran Hrovatin were murdered in 1994 in Somalia because they had seen toxic waste arrive in Bosaso, Somalia.^[7]

According to Fonti, Christian Democrat politicians, including former prime minister Ciriaco De Mita, had been involved in illegal disposal operations, using the secret service SISMI to cover up their connection. De Mita denied the allegations.^[8] Fonti also claimed that Socialist politicians Gianni De Michelis and Bettino Craxi intervened to ensure that Italian peacekeeping troops in Somalia turned a blind eye to the transports.^[10]

The huge waves which battered northern Somalia after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami were initially believed to have stirred up illegally dumped toxic and nuclear waste. There are also heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and mercury. The waves broke up rusting barrels and other containers and hazardous waste dumped along the long, remote shoreline in the war-racked country during the early 1990s, according to the United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP).^[11][12]

However, a United Nations technical fact-finding mission in 2005 did not find any traces of toxic waste along the shorelines after the tsunami.^[13] In 2006, the Somali NGO Daryeel Bulsho Guud, with access to the different warring clans, conducted a survey and identified 15 containers of "confirmed nuclear and chemical wastes" in eight coastal areas. A source with the United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) described the search for hazardous material in Somalia as "like looking for a needle in a haystack. It’s not that they don’t know it’s there ... but that they don’t know where to start looking for it."^[14]

ReferencesEdit

1. ^ ^a b Mafia accused of sinking ship full of radioactive waste off Italy, by Nick Squires, The Telegraph, September 16, 2009
2. ^ ^a b Italian police close in on 'toxic' shipwreck, The Financial Times, October 21 2009
3. ^ (in Italian) Parla un boss: Così lo Stato pagava la 'ndrangheta per smaltire i rifiuti tossici, by Riccardo Bocca, L’Espresso, August 5, 2005
4. ^ (in Italian) Dal plutonio alle polveri di marmo il "cimitero" delle navi radioattive, La Repubblica, September 14, 2009
5. ^ From cocaine to plutonium: mafia clan accused of trafficking nuclear waste, The Guardian, October 9, 2007
6. ^ Mafia sank boat with radioactive waste: official Archived 2009-09-29 at the Wayback Machine, AFP, September 14, 2009
7. ^ ^a b Shipwreck may hold radioactive waste sunk by mafia off Italian coast, by John Hooper, The Guardian, September 16, 2009
8. ^ ^a b (in Italian) Complotto sotto il mare, by Riccardo Bocca, L’Espresso, September 17, 2009
9. ^ 'Toxic' shipwreck turns out to be red herring, Financial Times, October 30, 2009
10. ^ Establishment hit by fresh accusations in toxic waste scandal, by Phillip Willan, The Herald, September 20, 2009
11. ^ Waves 'brought waste to Somalia', BBC News, March 2, 2005
12. ^ After the Tsunami. Rapid Environmental Assessment^{[dead link]}, United Nations Environment Programme
13. ^ UN Probe Team Finds No Toxic Waste Along Coastal Somalia, Xinhua, October 8, 2005^{[dead link]}
14. ^ Somalia used as toxic dumping ground, The Ecologist, March, 2009