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What are your views on this???
They plan on opening not one but 2 plants in south Trinidad. One in La Brea and another in the Cap-de-ville/Chatam area. Just last week we were talking about ALCOA in my Business Ethics class and the harmful effects of aluminum production. I have been doing some research and this is what I found so far:

Aluminum industry laborers, wherever they work, face severe on-the-job health risks. Smelter potrooms are a particularly hazardous workspace. At an Alcan smelter in British Columbia, Canada, over 20 workers have been disabled by or died from on-site exposures to cancerous emissions.

Since the late 1970s, scientists have correlated elevated bladder cancer rates in smelter potroom workers. In 1989, Alcoa told an Australia newspaper that it "emphatically rejects" any such risk for smelter workers. In 1999, Alcoa finally sent warnings to thousands of its workers worldwide that "a small increase in cancer could be expected at lower levels of exposure than had previously been expected."

Ecological Toll

The industry also exacts steep tolls from surrounding communities and ecosystems. Fluoride emissions from the Nalco smelter in India plague local villagers with brittle bones, tooth and gum diseases, and lumps of dead skin. Their cattle, more prone to fluoride contamination, commonly suffer from bone deformities and rising death rates. In one village within a kilometer of the plant, the local herd of cattle dropped from 3,000 to 100 head in a ten year period. Similar symptoms of fluorosis are apparent in villages around the world's fourth largest smelter, in Tursunzade, Tajikistan.

A Quebec, Canada, region that hosts four Alcan smelters has the highest

birth defect rate in the country. It leads the province in deaths caused by malignant tumors. Biologists have connected emissions from these smelters with cancers in beluga whales downstream in the Saint Lawrence Estuary.

What are your views???

I just found this site.

http://www.nosmeltertnt.com/fight_alcoa.html

I dunno...on the surface I support it, and don't really buy into the hype of green activist...as pro-environment as I am.

Build them on Carrera----Transport the Workers there by Ferry or build a long ass bridge----

-----Only a Dumb Ass will allow Industrial Pollution to float over dey nice house that dey spend so much $$$$ on.

That's is a good idea. They are concentrating it in Point Fortin because that is where the natural gas is. They figure it will cost too much to run gas lines out there.

I am totally against it cause that is where I am from and that is where I plan to move back to in a few years.
Well of the ALCOA execs emailed me yesterday, he said it will only produce "low emissions". Which means it will just take alot longer for people to get sick.

Or that the levels may be harmless....

JuicyTriniJJ:

Fock the cost of the Gas Line to Carrera where peoples Health and Gene Pool concerned-----

-----Patrick was talking about piping gas to Grenada an everybody else up de road---He could run a gas line to Carrera.

Well this thing is about to take an interesting turn:
http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,38210.html

This is getting really good. Finally some much needed attention. Did you see this...........

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index...s?id=160956698

Juicy:

I'm so happy to see the people of La Brea struggling against this Industrial Insanity:
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index...s?id=160956698
At least Somebody struggling to keep de air nice an clean for we-----

-----something to go back to after EVERYTHING is RADIOACTIVE and RUINED within Current US Domestic Borders.

We posted the exact same article. I am not exactly sure where in La Brea they are putting the plant, but if it's on the main road, the place that I am thinking about has been cleared for at 7 years, but who knows........

Maybe this photo might refresh your memory:
http://rightsactiongroup.blogspot.com