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September 21, 2009

Oil Trader Pays $49 Million for Illegal Dumping in Ivory Coast
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In news from Africa, the oil trading firm Trafigura Beheer has agreed to
pay nearly $49 million compensation to people in Ivory Coast for
illegally dumping 500 tons of petrochemical waste and caustic soda in
open landfills in 2006. The chemicals killed fifteen people, and more
than 100,000 were made nauseous and vomited from the fumes.



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