Can anybody tell me about the toxic waste spillage in aznalcollar?

Question

Is this true - the toxic waste contaminated the soil and the rivers? Please let me know what you know about it or any good websites. Thanks

Answer 1

Indeed there was a spillage.

I searched "Contaminación Aznalcollar" for you and several sites, in spanish, give you good information and pictures. There are several websites that translate the text online for you, or some of these sites might have an english section.

Here is a good one:

http://edafologia.ugr.es/donana/aznal.htm

Hope it helps!

P. S. I just searched Aznalcollar contamination and turned some good stuff in english:

Copy this line:

http://search.msn.co.uk/results.aspx?q=Aznalcollar+contamination&mkt=en-GB&form=QBRE

And check the sites you get.

Right now up in Galicia they are suffering more problems; the intense rains they have had are washing the ashes from this summer's forest fires down to sea, to the oyster beds that they have there and this is suffocating the oysters that are farmed there, affecting the local economy. A lady interviewed on TV said that they were being affected more by these toxic muds than by the oilspill that hit the area a couple years ago, when the single-hulled oil tanker "Prestige" cracked up and lost a large part of its cargo.

Who needs wars to mess up human lives?