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Compensation not enough, say victims of toxic waste
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9-19-2009 8:24 AM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4ee0c29c-1bff-408c-b82a-8f1f5f54cf5a/3C6B60E9-9E29-452C-9BFC-E3335793BAC3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.smh.com.au/environment/compensation-not-enough-say-victims-of-toxic-waste-20090918-fvds.html?page=fullpage" href="http://www.smh.com.au/environment/compensation-not-enough-say-victims-of-toxic-waste-20090918-fvds.html?page=fullpage" style="font-size: 11px;">www.smh.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/environment/compensation-not-enough-say-victims-of-toxic-waste-20090918-fvds.html?page=fullpage"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.smh.com.au/img/22DC0043-58FA-4275-9FE5-E87706289EEE" alt="Legal fight...a woman show skin damage that she says was caused by the dumping of toxic waste in Abidjan." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/environment/compensation-not-enough-say-victims-of-toxic-waste-20090918-fvds.html?page=fullpage"><P>Legal fight...a woman show skin damage that she says was caused by the dumping of toxic waste in Abidjan. <EM>Photo: AFP</EM></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/environment/compensation-not-enough-say-victims-of-toxic-waste-20090918-fvds.html?page=fullpage"><P>VICTIMS of alleged contamination from a toxic waste dump in Ivory Coast have called on Trafigura, one of world's largest oil traders, to ensure a full clean-up of a polluted site after it settles a compensation claim.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/environment/compensation-not-enough-say-victims-of-toxic-waste-20090918-fvds.html?page=fullpage"><P>Trafigura has prepared an offer for 31,000 locals in Ivory Coast who claimed the dump caused a range of illnesses. But a victim's association said the concerns of the wider community needed to be addressed.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.smh.com.au/environment/compensation-not-enough-say-victims-of-toxic-waste-20090918-fvds.html?page=fullpage"><P> ''Now they are talking about over 30,000 victims, but for us there are more than that,'' said the president of the National Federation of Victims of Toxic Waste, Denis Titira Yao. 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