Following a cleanup, the activists used salvaged material to build benches, mobile sunshades and other elements of an ingenious, rapidly reconfigurable parliament – and the first question they put before this parliament was how to manage the site itself.
"Storing massive amounts of water onsite is not sustainable".Experts involved in what is probably the world's most complex industrial cleanup agree.
What's more, the scale of the cleanup at Bankia raises fears that other lenders will require more cash at a time when there is no obvious way of raising it.The good news is that the larger-than-expected rescue means the government is at last serious about cleaning up Bankia.
The toxic bullshit, which began to spew from the mouths of BP executives shortly after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April, has completely devastated the Gulf region, delaying cleanup efforts, affecting thousands of jobs, and endangering the lives of all nearby wildlife.
In 2010 a cleanup effort in Slovenia brought out an estimated 270,000 people, or more than one-eighth of the country's population.
The psychological stress has been intense, and the long-term bill for cleanup will be massive.
In previous cases of suspected contamination, the government and industry has not been fully transparent though it improved its response, such as after the release of small amounts of radioactive water following an earthquake near Niigata in 2007 that closed the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant.The nuclear crisis adds to a day of chaos and cleanup for the country.
UPI has the numbers:[S]pending on leisure travel will fall by $691 million through 2013, but business travel, including by media, government officials and cleanup crews, will rise by about $395 million.The net cost of the spill to the state's travel sector will still be nearly $300 million through 2013, according to the tourism agency's report.
Already, as part of a government-led cleanup, its proportion of non-performing loans has fallen from 24% in 2007 to 3% in 2009.That, however, leads straight to the sceptical view of ABC.
There would be a neat symmetry if a country that helped to pioneer offshore oil-drilling also pioneered the cleanup necessary once all the oil is gone.
