Giuseppe
Emeritus
KENYA - 22/7/2008 19.14 [SysTran machine translation - ioh]
OIL ON LAKE TURKANA: POLLUTION RISKS AND POVERTY
Nature and Atmosphere, Brief
The oil perforations on the rivers of the lake of Turkana, in Kenya, risk to cause serious damages acclimatize them and to favor the spread of diseases between the population: it is the fear of some local associations, that they ask to suspend the activities of the titular Swedish society of the concessions.
To speed up a stop or however a dismissal – they report some average of Stockholm today – has been from last l ’ Organization for the development of the communities of shepherds (Pdco); the activists ask l ’ shipment for a task force in order to assess the causes of a series of infections, diffuse between the local population, after the last oil prospectings carried out in years eighty.
Quoted on the ag of Stockholm, assets also in other countries Africans like Sudan and Ethiopia, ‘ the Lundin Petroleum ’ has obtained nell ’ past autumn a concession in order to verify the hydrocarbon presence on the western river of the Turkana.
The activists do not move some specific accusation regarding the Swedish society, but they suggest a tie between l ’ I accumulate of chemical wastes produced from the perforations of years eighty, the presumed pollution of water pools and “ respiratory pathologies like tumors and diseases that before did not exist ”.
Blue eye that allonge for various hundreds of kilometers till to touch the borders of Sudan and Ethiopia, the Turkana seems to in itself reassume the paradoxes of the Kenya: the government thinks that the lake guards important reservoirs of oil but, in a relationship of 2007, emphasizes as the 93 _ of the adults of the communities local seed-nomads he does not assume the indispensable kilocalorie for the survival.
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http://www.misna.org/news.asp?a=1&IDLingua=2&id=220114
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OIL ON LAKE TURKANA: POLLUTION RISKS AND POVERTY
Nature and Atmosphere, Brief
The oil perforations on the rivers of the lake of Turkana, in Kenya, risk to cause serious damages acclimatize them and to favor the spread of diseases between the population: it is the fear of some local associations, that they ask to suspend the activities of the titular Swedish society of the concessions.
To speed up a stop or however a dismissal – they report some average of Stockholm today – has been from last l ’ Organization for the development of the communities of shepherds (Pdco); the activists ask l ’ shipment for a task force in order to assess the causes of a series of infections, diffuse between the local population, after the last oil prospectings carried out in years eighty.
Quoted on the ag of Stockholm, assets also in other countries Africans like Sudan and Ethiopia, ‘ the Lundin Petroleum ’ has obtained nell ’ past autumn a concession in order to verify the hydrocarbon presence on the western river of the Turkana.
The activists do not move some specific accusation regarding the Swedish society, but they suggest a tie between l ’ I accumulate of chemical wastes produced from the perforations of years eighty, the presumed pollution of water pools and “ respiratory pathologies like tumors and diseases that before did not exist ”.
Blue eye that allonge for various hundreds of kilometers till to touch the borders of Sudan and Ethiopia, the Turkana seems to in itself reassume the paradoxes of the Kenya: the government thinks that the lake guards important reservoirs of oil but, in a relationship of 2007, emphasizes as the 93 _ of the adults of the communities local seed-nomads he does not assume the indispensable kilocalorie for the survival.
[ VG]
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http://www.misna.org/news.asp?a=1&IDLingua=2&id=220114
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