Chinese-owned steel mill coats Serbian town in red dust; cancer spreads

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  1. That’s what you get with doing business with the devil. They don’t care about your environment or the health effects.

  2. I notice the plant has remained pretty much unchanged since 2003 on Google Earth. Save for the very recent projects the plant itself said they are building to reduce the pollution.

    Is the dust more a result of a sudden increase in production, or changing up the way things have been manufactured there in the five years since it was bought by a Chinese firm?

  3. What the fuck? And of course China will deny it and offer no compensation nor correct the issue. I would hope the Serbian government steps in but they may be hesitant to possible lose future business. Sad for the people there. Being a Croat, I am certain the Croatian government would fail to act if it happened in Croatia. Ideally the Balkans should be running its own steel industry.

  4. This is bad, yes, but it must be noted that articles like this are purely there to pin-point “the enemy”. There is a steel mill in the Netherlands (Tata Steel in Ijmuiden) that has also been in the national news here many times for being hugely polluting (cancer included) to its immediate area, but of course you don’t see headlines about that in international publications.

    With that said, both are bad and should be regulated to not be harmful or closed down entirely, regardless of who owns them.

  5. In the 90s the US bombed Serbia with depleted uranium which has caused Serbia to have some of the highest rates of cancer in the world.

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