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The Exxon Valdez’s Eco-Friendly Afterlife

Bloomberg -- At some point before the weekend, the ship once known as the Exxon Valdez will come to its final resting place on an oil-stained beach in Alang, India, where it’ll be recycled in the world’s largest and most notorious shipbreaking yard.
Environmentalists inside and outside of India are outraged. The Valdez -- now renamed (I am not making this up) the Oriental Nicety -- like almost all ships scrapped in India, is filled with hazardous substances including asbestos and PCB-laden oils. Under Indian law and international treaties to which India is party, that should render it illegal to import. And yet, not only is it being imported, it’s one of hundreds of ships that are brought into Alang every year for recycling. Despite an order from the Indian Supreme Court on this week requiring that ...

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Submitted Aug 03, 2012 By: BurntOrange

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Metrolizer Champion Author Fort Worth Posts:2,015 Points:2,210,155 Joined:Feb 2005	Message Posted: Aug 3, 2012 7:54:45 PM Ignore Metrolizer Report Abuse kgbellman Posted: Aug 3, 2012 12:38:06 AM >>If not for India, what would we do with it << If not for “reccyling”, the world would be forced by a glut of derelict industrial gear to surrender economic as well as political control to the enviro-whackos, who would reduce world population to small bands of hippies “treading lightly upon the earth” as they were supposedly doing, until the dawn of history a few thousand years ago. [Edited by: Metrolizer at 8/3/2012 8:55:18 PM EST]
dave27johnson Champion Author Chicago Posts:1,790 Points:411,010 Joined:Feb 2012	Message Posted: Aug 3, 2012 6:35:44 AM Ignore dave27johnson Report Abuse An interesting article.
MidNJ Champion Author New Jersey Posts:7,568 Points:1,174,430 Joined:Sep 2009	Message Posted: Aug 3, 2012 1:19:52 AM Ignore MidNJ Report Abuse Interesting "postitive spin" on the oil filled beachs (and workers) where these ships are broken apart.
kgbellman Champion Author Ann Arbor Posts:2,728 Points:734,765 Joined:Mar 2011	Message Posted: Aug 3, 2012 12:38:06 AM Ignore kgbellman Report Abuse If not for India, what would we do with it
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TBONE3 Champion Author Pennsylvania Posts:8,761 Points:1,979,575 Joined:Mar 2005	Message Posted: Aug 2, 2012 11:47:32 PM Ignore TBONE3 Report Abuse Interesting read although I I would love to know what India is going to with all that material. They sure will not consider life and health of the people and the environment as we are required and should be.
ectolle Rookie Author Indiana Posts:67 Points:19,440 Joined:Jul 2011	Message Posted: Aug 2, 2012 11:44:54 PM Ignore ectolle Report Abuse Everyone loves oil, nobody wants to get it here so it has to be shipped. The ships wear out and what the heck are we supposed to do with them.
Badjef Champion Author Florida Posts:4,060 Points:820,765 Joined:Jan 2011	Message Posted: Aug 2, 2012 11:40:42 PM Ignore Badjef Report Abuse That should show you that the concerns for the environment are more a pandering to the left than anything substantial. A 4.5B year old planet and this generation thinks they can "save" it is the height of arrogance!
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10k Champion Author North Carolina Posts:21,275 Points:2,256,945 Joined:May 2006	Message Posted: Aug 2, 2012 11:36:11 PM Ignore 10k Report Abuse serious question: where in the heck do we put that stuff, so that no humans, nor the environment, are affected by it now or in the future ??..
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tedjm1 Champion Author New York Posts:5,609 Points:800,300 Joined:Dec 2006	Message Posted: Aug 2, 2012 11:26:04 PM Ignore tedjm1 Report Abuse That's intresting. Well, India takes control of anything.
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