Why would the DOJ release this press release just last december after the Asarco Bankruptcy ended, without EVER requiring the court(s) to consider what ASARCO had actually done?!?
The EPA secretly told the DOJ in 1998 that ASARCO had burned illegal dangerous secret hazardous wastes for profit for nearly ten years. Then they sealed their agreement with Asarco and kept this from the community for eight more years.
It was the DOJ's responsibility (through someone called a "DOJ BANKRUPTCY TRUSTEE") to make the Asarco court consider the liabilities from the secret haz-waste. The DOJ never did this -- even though SPGEG (Sunland Park, N.M.) requested it through proper legal-court-channels. The press announcement from last December was made by the DOJ ALONG WITH THE EPA. That had to be a NATIONAL EPA decision -- higher than the regional offices that administer the El Paso TX and E. Helena MT Asarco smelter sites where the illegal secret burnings happened for years...
Representative Reyes said (after the confidential-for-settlement-purposes-only-1998 DOJ/EPA document was publicly released after 8 years of silence, in 2006) that ASARCO had paid MILLIONS OF DOLLARS on condition that the details of what it had done would NEVER BECOME PUBLIC. For more information use google to search "Asarco Secret Document".
What is going on, that they are not being honest with us?
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2009/December/09-enrd-1326.html
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
London Financial Times: Vedanta renews fight for Asarco ownership
"Google News Alert for: asarco
"Sterlite, a Vedanta subsidiary, has joined the biggest US labour union in seeking to reverse a lower court ruling in November that returned Asarco to Grupo México, its original owner.
Grupo, lawyers for Sterlite and the union said, represented “a self-interested equity holder” that “previously defrauded the debtors [Asarco] and their stakeholders”.
In February, Sterlite and the United Steelworkers union, which represents Asarco’s miners, jointly filed an appeals brief before the appellate court in New Orleans. "
| Vedanta revives bid battle for Asarco Financial Times By William MacNamara in London Vedanta, the UK-listed Indian miner, has revived a $2bn (£1.3bn) takeover battle for Asarco, the bankrupt US copper producer, ..." |
"Sterlite, a Vedanta subsidiary, has joined the biggest US labour union in seeking to reverse a lower court ruling in November that returned Asarco to Grupo México, its original owner.
Grupo, lawyers for Sterlite and the union said, represented “a self-interested equity holder” that “previously defrauded the debtors [Asarco] and their stakeholders”.
In February, Sterlite and the United Steelworkers union, which represents Asarco’s miners, jointly filed an appeals brief before the appellate court in New Orleans. "
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