DR1 News 21 March 2006:
Veteran Puerto Rico-based journalist John Collins writes to share the article he wrote on rock ash from Puerto Rico deposited in the DR.
"I think people in the DR would be very interested in the lawyer's opinion regarding the role of the GovtPR in not monitoring the toxic material exported from PR. In fact he stated that both US & PR govt agencies have to share the blame for this problem. I can assure you that the position of AES is that they had permission from the US & PR govts to ship it. The lawyer is also going to insist that if AES thought it was nontoxic then why didn't they process it in PR rather than ship it to the DR?," he asks.
He recently covered the issue for Trinidad-based Caribbean Investor publication: http://caribbeaninvestor.com/article.shtml?browser_query=varticle&field=4762
Veteran Puerto Rico-based journalist John Collins writes to share the article he wrote on rock ash from Puerto Rico deposited in the DR.
"I think people in the DR would be very interested in the lawyer's opinion regarding the role of the GovtPR in not monitoring the toxic material exported from PR. In fact he stated that both US & PR govt agencies have to share the blame for this problem. I can assure you that the position of AES is that they had permission from the US & PR govts to ship it. The lawyer is also going to insist that if AES thought it was nontoxic then why didn't they process it in PR rather than ship it to the DR?," he asks.
He recently covered the issue for Trinidad-based Caribbean Investor publication: http://caribbeaninvestor.com/article.shtml?browser_query=varticle&field=4762