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Originally Posted by Mirador
Funny that you added this last phrase as a corollary, however, you forgot to reduce the font size to fine print. You must be aware that this case was already tried by Dominican law, and the Dominican court rulled for lack of evidence. Here is a situation not unlike our current energy crisis, people making money out of caos, and now in this case it is also US lawyers...
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Mirador:
Would it not be germane to mention that the manner in which the Dominican abogados presented the case was not complete?
As I recall, they focused on thehealth issues instead of the violation of theenvironmental issues and the "illegal" transport and dumping that took place in violation of the appropriate Dominican laws.
If that was the case, then the Dominican Courts had no choice but to rule "insufficient evidence" since the waste that was dumped was not as toxic as represented by the objectors.
The many complaints of "Ill Health" that were assedged by the inhabitants of Manzanillo were fabricated and were caused by contaminated water being pumped into the local sisterns after months of the pipes being not used. The stagnant water therein was mixed with the "fresh" water, thereby contaminating it with all sorts of algae and bacteria/virus.
While I agree that there are many aspects of the original "trial sequence", the verdict did have a foundation in fact.
I'm not so sure that the US courts will view the evidence with the same "eyes" as did the Dominican courts. The fct that the waste originated within US territorial jurisdiction will have a huge bearing on theoutcome. There are laws in theUS that prohibit this sort of "transportational dumping" and I don't think AES will get off "Scott Free" by any means.
Let us hope for the best and that Justice is forthcoming.
I imagine that the findings will be somewhat short of what the Dominican Government is suing for, however.
Texas Bill