Polish Minister of Climate and Environment Anna Moskwa: no toxins were detected in samples from the Oder River. There are three hypotheses

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  1. TRANSLATION:

    No toxic substances have been detected in any of the samples of water from the Oder River that have been tested so far, Climate and Environment Minister Anna Moskwa announced Tuesday. The first batch of fish testing for pesticides has also been completed. As the minister added, three hypotheses are being considered in investigating the causes of the mass fish die-off.

    The Chief Inspectorate of Environmental Protection has analyzed the samples, none of which showed the presence of any toxic substances, the minister stressed. The minister said that the first batch of fish testing for pesticides has also been completed. No pesticides were indicated in any of the species tested, the minister conveyed.

    **Oder contamination. Minister speaks of three hypotheses**

    The first hypothesis is the potential entry of a toxic substance, whether as a result of the activities of companies operating along the Oder River or illegal discharges into the river, she explained.

    The second hypothesis is that the causes were natural: high temperatures, low water levels and increased concentrations of pollutants.

    The third variant being investigated, she added, is the discharge of a large amount of industrial water into the Oder, which has a lot of chlorine in it. Chlorine could have potentially triggered pollution from bottom sediments, the minister explained.

    She also stressed that the simultaneous occurrence of these factors is also under consideration.

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  2. > **Doubts about whether it was the Germans who contaminated the Oder are not uncommon among PiS supporters.** **Krystyna Pawłowicz, the PiS-appointed judge of the Polish Constitutional Court and former deputy of the party**, supported this by asking why it was excluded that the Germans were responsible for the environmental disaster: “Are they also looking for the culprit among themselves? I think it is necessary to establish in whose interest this poisoning of the Oder was …” **she wrote on Twitter**.
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    https://twitter.com/KrystPawlowicz/status/1558484553529950208

    > Is the possibility that the Oder was poisoned from the shore on the German side also taken into account?
    > Are they also looking for the perpetrator, or has PL agreed in advance on only one version about the “guilt” on the Polish side ..?
    > I think it should be established in whose interest it was to poison the Odra River …
    >

    Quite bizarre, because how could “Germans” poison the Oder in Poland.
    Do Germans have magical powers that make a river flow uphill?
    This anti-German sentiment of the Poles is not very helpful. Imagine if this situation were reversed, the Poles would probably claim that the Germans wanted to poison them and start a second Holocaust. Just sickening how stupid some people are.

  3. This is really infuriating and those responsible will probably not face any punishment. At least PiS cannot blame Germany, even though some already did.

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