' Locals ' concerned about ' carcinogenic ' green stuff

09-06-2015 10:17

Inhabitants of Curaçao are affected by the flue gases from the refinery in the middle of Willemstad. That has long been so, but a few months ago is there new dirt.

 

A strange green substance has settled over the neighborhood in the Curaçao Wishi capital under the smoke of the Isla-installations. The residents do not know what it is and demands clarity of the authorities.

Sisi Dulfer has taken the lead and residents asked their concerns and complaints. Mean to them to the Minister of health. When she hears that who used to own family doctor has been in Wishi, she is angry: "he has taken an oath, how can he people here death let go?"

Because that the situation is severe in Wishi, confirms doctor Alexandra severing. She is a family physician in the district. "It's very much here. Babies of two weeks old come here beeping on my practice. I do not catch my stethoscope to see that that asthma is. What I really like is that these little ones nothing at all to be able to do. They are victim of this refinery. "

And now that green stuff. On almost all lamp posts about. Fencing and letterboxes are exactly on the side of the wind turned green. So the side of the refinery. Isla did not respond to calls from the neighborhood to explain what it is. Even the Government does not give at home.

Peter van Leeuwen of the environmental group SMOC (clean environment On Curaçao) know it though. He has the green stuff tested by TNO Netherlands. "This is, carcinogenic compounds containing nickel and vanadium. That are heavy metals, carcinogens so. "" Measurement results indicate that the Isla spits out three to four times more mess than a year ago. " The emission of vanadium pentoxide, which the Green attack also caused, according to Verma as the Isla heavier oil refines. "There are more nickel and vanadium. A filter would be able to stop, but the refinery many places that are not. "

Evacuated the inhabitants of SMOC Wishi and also look not only to the Curaçao Government, but also in the direction of Netherlands. They find that the Hague should appeal to the Curaçao do not act against the Isla. "Netherlands knows exactly what is happening here. Defense has even though his staff evacuated due to the extreme amounts of sulphur dioxide

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