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CHEMICAL
PLANT CLOSED -
A NEW ATAGE OF THE FIGTH BEGINS
The closure of a chemical
plant from the biggest chemical multinational corporation in Brazil
and one of the world's biggest, RHODIA / RHÔNE-POULENC, localized
in a strategic place for the national economy, was a historical event
and a resounding victory to the labor union, to the popular movement,
and to the organized society as well.
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| Chloro-acnes
in contaminated worker |
Skin disease in contaminated worke |
It took 20 years of uninterrupted,
persistent and unequal fightings between workers without any financial
resource and RHODIA / RHÔNE-POULENC with their economic power and high
level of influence on the Brazilian government, on the Chencellery,
and on the Ministry of Health (RHODIA is the major medicine supplier
to this Ministry, which is a center of power.)
The dispute was engendered by the continuous violation of both labor and environmental
Brazilian laws, which was, in the last analysis, a progressive transgression
of elementary principles of civilization by the French multinational. -DOZENS
OF DEAD; 10.000 PEOPLE CONTAMINATED; 2 MILLIONS SQUARE METERS OF SOIL AND
WATER POLLUTED; 300.000 TONNES OF CHEMICAL WASTE POLLUTING THE ENVIRONMENT;
COSTS ESTIMATED AROUND 1.5 BILLION US DOLLARS TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE.
The recovering of contaminated areas of just one city affected, São Vicente,
will take to RHODIA / RHÔNE-POULENC 1 billion dollars, as the environmental
engineer Werner Eugênio Zulauf has calculated. Zulauf is a former manager from
CETESB, the state organ to the environment control in the state of São Paulo,
and has presently become Secretary of Environment in the city of São Paulo.
For that reason, Zulauf has profound knowledge of the RHODIA affair since at
least 15 years.
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Reporting press: The Rhodia's Case |
The first epidemiologic
monitorings in order to evaluate the range of people's contamination
by organochlorates has just recently begin . The specialists suspect
there is a number around 10.000 contaminated inhabitants in the continental
area of São Vicente city.
Nonetheless, the amount
of 300.000 tonnes of contaminated material is not a fixed quantity.
Both natural and antropic factors increase every day the extent of
the contamination in the soil, in the water, and even in the ground
water.
In spite of this, it must be emphasized that in the Brazilian environmental legislation - which is almost complete is this area, one of the world's best - the subject of the legal protection is the human being, even before the nature protection. This fact was properly mentioned by G. Berlinger in his book "Medicina e Política" (Medicine and Politics):
" The concept of nature protection implies the acknowledgement that the first violated nature is the human nature, mainly among the workers."
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| Chemical Unit of Rhodia in Cubatão | Chemical waste: population exposed |
The Public Ministry
and the Curatory of Environment, both legally responsible for the closure
of the chemical plant, forced
RHODIA to give full employment guarantee for 4 years to the 156 workers
removed from work by the closure, and to assume all medical expenses
to diagnose diseases and care for them for all their life.Civil actions are presently being elaborated against
RHODIA .
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| POPs in underground waters | Construction a tank for PCB’s storage |
1. JUDICIAL
INTERVENTION IN THE CHEMICAL UNITY OF CUBATÃO / BRAZIL – RHODIA.
2. CHEMICAL
PLANT CLOSED - A NEW STAGE OF THE FIGHT BEGINS.
3. ACPO
- ASSOCIATION OF COMBATS AGAINST THE POPs.
4. TECHNICALS STUDIES “RHODIA’S
CASE”.
