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"Big business and industries unrestrainedly polluting rivers, lakes and water tables with untreated toxic waste are unaccountable. They cannot be curbed by legislation that essentially allows companies to pollute and pay negligible fines – if and when a legal infringement is discovered – while making huge profits at the expense of public health and the environment.
The EU and governments are aware of this but maintain a wall of silence about it. With the prospect of increased profits, they endanger the lives of workers by pretending to be ‘competitive’, while requiring them to fund anti-pollution measures through taxation.
The contamination of the water table in the Asopos River region with hexavalent chromium from unmonitored industrial activity highlights the substantial shortcomings in the legislation, which confines itself to setting the upper limit for chromium content and makes no provision for such a demonstrably dangerous carcinogen.
The EU’s proposed measures, even when they limit the content of hazardous substances, are invalidated by the absence of effective checks and pollution-deterrent measures that would affect industries’ profits. Only the worker’s struggle against the profits of the plutocracy can safeguard the inalienable right to health and life."@en1
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