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Trust me I respect where you are coming from. I've also had to deal with rock ash from a regulatory point of view. But I would respect the references more if they weren't so biased or had a wider range.
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Originally Posted by gardito
I’m tired of the tone that some use in this thread. I won’t refute you directly, I’ll let the people whose job it is to educate people on the subject of ash do that. Please check out these websites and their links before you go yelling “the sky’s falling”.
WASHINGTON - The Dominican Republic is looking to Washington for help recovering at least $80 million in damages from a U.S. utility it accuses of dumping thousands of tons of coal ash on the country's beaches, sickening residents and harming the tourism industry.
The Dominican government has hired a Washington lawyer to attempt to open settlement talks with the company, AES Corp., or failing that, to file a lawsuit in U.S. courts against AES [article]
Bart Fisher is a trade lawyer well known in Washington circles for decades, primarily for some of his international lobbying efforts, successful or not (and yes, there have been some of the latter).
BTW, aegap, the law in the "published work" you refer to is not about dumping materials, substances or wastes, but rather is about importing goods at below-market prices. "Antidumping" in international trade circles refers to measures to counter what the competition lawyers like to refer to as "predatory pricing." So it has no relation whatsoever to this case or this thread...
thank you, knew that....i.e. China in the U.S.............with a bit of a stretch, I guess it could be considered such?
My point is that he could be considered one of the best for this type of cases...and this Dominican government should be somewhat commended for apperently going all out....with AES pull, I didn't expect them too......or do you think this is just politicking?
[quote=aegap].. Dominican government should be somewhat commended for apperently going all out....QUOTE]
All out? more like all out to expand the opportunity to profit from this disaster. The day after announcing that the DR government will sue AES corp in a US court, the Ministry of Environment announced it will burn the stuff locally at a cost of US$1 million (or RD$50 million, according to other sources). What happened to our avid journalist? always ready to ask the compulsory questions, and inform the restless public? Will the Ministry of the Environment conduct the necessary environmental impact studies on San Pedro de Macorís, and Palenque, San Cristobal, where the rock ash will be burned in a recently built Japanese cement plant? Why wasen't the rock ash burned in origin (PR) in the first place? There are many other questions...
Isn't hiring one of the most experienced lawyers with this type of case, and suing AES in the U.S. just about going all out?..
Not quite! "going all out" should be nothing less than taking out all DR Environmental Ministry officers, Customs Dept officers, owners of front companies involved, and other individuals who conspired to bring the trash into the DR...
