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...Asbestos, tobacco, sugar, mining, carbon, plastics, fish, poultry — to name but a few. Often the perpetrators are long gone....
...Ukrainian officials have warned that mines from the area around the dam, near to the frontline, could have been washed out to sea....
...In the 1960s, asbestos companies were aware of the hazards of their products. At the time, it was not illegal to mine or process asbestos without proper protection. By the 1980s, the mood had changed....
...BMD Group, which is working on Adani Enterprises’ Carmichael mine, said in an appeal at a parliamentary inquiry that it may have to ask the government for insurance....
...Responding to repeated questions from analysts on Monday, Conrad Keijzer, Imerys chief executive, acknowledged “a level of contamination from asbestos” at the Willsboro plant, where the group mines and processes...
...Those who worked in coal mines and with asbestos in buildings are particularly affected....
...“We’ve got wet rot, dry rot, bats, asbestos — the lot,” says McLeod. Nearby, the door of the chapel opens to a wall of scaffolding that keeps the roof from falling in....
...The occupier, who eventually left of his own accord, told us that the fraudster had shown him several properties, not just mine, and claimed he owned all of them....
...He oversaw the development of legal technology that can mine non-privileged factual safety data from litigation to “help GM do a better job — making cars safer”....
...The bank also said it would stop financing oil exploration and production from tar sands and in the Arctic, mountain-top removal coal miners, simple hull oil tankers, new nuclear power plants, asbestos extraction...
...“You can say ‘All this land is mine,’ ” he says. He recalls how first their vines were burnt, then a field of lentils....
...Workplace pollution is responsible for a diverse range of non-infectious problems such as lung cancer and mesothelioma in people exposed to asbestos and bladder cancer in dye workers....
...In the chamber where trainees practised saying mass, a devil has been expertly painted above an altar alongside the words “YOUR SOUL IS MINE”....
...However, when you factor lower restructuring, asbestos litigation and write-downs on acquisition charges, the outcome was a more humbling 9 per cent fall to £189m....
...Potentially the most valuable manorial rights relate to mines and minerals....
...“We believe any potential deal is unlikely to lead to a full breakup of the group given the pension and asbestos related liabilities.”...
...An attempt by Indian and other investors to revive a big Canadian asbestos mine has run into a storm of protest from health and environmental groups....
...Where Andrews and pro-sale board members see dry rot, wet rot, asbestos and prohibitive bills, others who visit 38 King Street see great potential....
...Asarco, an Arizona-based copper miner, paid a record $1.79bn to the US government on Thursday for the clean-up of environmental damage and restoration at contaminated mines in 19 states....
...RSA Insurance advanced by 1 per cent to 127¾p as analysts at Cazenove played down the claimant risk from benign lung scarring caused by asbestos, a condition known as pleural plaques....
...Asarco owns three copper mines in Arizona....
...Asarco, owner of three copper mines in Arizona, is still technically owned by Grupo Mexico, which bought it through a leveraged buy-out in 1999....
...Arizona-based Asarco filed for bankruptcy protection in 2005 after it was sued for $1bn for environmental and asbestos claims....
...Asarco filed for bankruptcy protection in 2005 after it was sued for $1bn for environmental and asbestos claims....
...Asarco is also a high-cost producer in spite of being integrated with its own copper mines....
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