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WEBApr 30, 2021 · Insurgent countryside: Social justice and territorial stigma in creating advanced wind energy landscapes. David Rudolph, Technical University of Denmark. In February 2019, Dansk Energi, a business and lobby organisation for energy companies in Denmark, launched their latest Renewable Energy …
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WEBToxic News online magazine is a forum for discussions about toxics in everyday life. We aim to bring together a wide range of stories, cases, and perspectives about toxics, from researchers, activists, writers, and artists.
‘Critical’ Minerals and the Politics of Refusal – Toxic News
WEBApr 30, 2021 · The social, political, and ecological changes that will come with the extraction of minerals in the Ring of Fire are irreversible, and the resources in contention include so-called “critical minerals” — those that have been deemed necessary for the very transition from fossil fuels that climate justice demands.
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The Global Petrochemical Map: Drawing the Political ... - Toxic News
WEBAug 29, 2019 · In fact, the siting of the most toxic petrochemical plants in the vicinities of minority and low-income communities or the deployment of extremely repressive employment practices in countries where labour is weak can only be understood through the prism of power relations embedded in space.
Translating Toxic Exposure: Taiwan RCA – Toxic News
WEBFeb 1, 2018 · In countless toxic-tort cases, courts have adopted a “one-chemical-one-disease” view of causation, enabling companies that have unlawfully exposed people to a mix of hazardous chemicals to avoid any liability, as the causal links are so complex.
The Bahía Blanca Petrochemical Complex: Why I Have Made a
WEBNov 18, 2019 · Toxic clouds emanating from the industries’ chimneys, strong smells. Cracks in people’s houses caused by the building of port terminals for these enterprises. It became impossible to fish in the contaminated waters.
PX Events from the Perspective of Social Constructivism - Toxic News
WEBNov 8, 2016 · ZHANG Hubiao, Associate Professor, Sociology Department of Hohai University, China In recent years, a series of PX (paraxylene) events have occurred in China. Public concern in China over PX first started with the mass protests in the city of Xiamen in Fujian province, over a planned paraxylene plant. The …
A Reflection on the Tianjin Explosions – Toxic News
WEBMay 28, 2019 · The exploded Ruihai Warehouse, storing thousands tons of hazardous goods, including 700 tons sodium cyanide, a highly toxic chemical substance, is only 600 metres away from its nearest residential area.
In search of environmental justice and possible futures for the ...
WEBNov 17, 2020 · We analyzed how the many senses and meanings around pollution, toxicity, harm to health and environmental impact given to Flammable by several powerful actors performed as a “labor of confusion” linked to the social production of toxic uncertainty, deceit and denial.