Toxic flood

[123everton]

Who owns the aluminum mine that's flooded a village in Hungary and threatens to pollute the Danube?

[squarebear]

These people:
http://www.mal.hu/Engine.aspx

[jno]

Ajkai Timfoldgyar Zrt alumina plant, owned by MAL Zrt

according to the Guardian

MAL is here:

http://english.mal.hu...px?page=bemutatkozunk

[sandyRoe]

Unfettered free enterprise is a wonderful thing. What does it matter if a few people get drowned in a flood of sludge and a village is almost washed away?

[Kromovaracun]

I don't really know anything about the case, but it's kinda presumptuous to just chalk it down to private enterprise....

[jno]

Kromovaracun, I think sandyRoe's objection may be to the unfetteredness rather than the privateness. That said, I don't know whether this incident was the sort that can be legislated against.

[ludwig]

What are you on about sandyroe? you don't don't anything about the reasons behind this. Was it unfettered free enterprise that caused the Chernobyl reactor to blow up?

[sandyRoe]

ludwig, I don't know. Was it a highly regulated environment when Three Mile Island's reactor suffered meltdown?

[ludwig]

Doh!...you've got me there Sandy - 3 mile island proves conclusively that unfettered free enterprise is behind the collapse of this dam in Hungary - I should have seen that coming.
It's ok everyone, cancel the inquiry. It's the evil capitalists that did it. probably sneaking down there and night and joyrding all over the place in their Porsches, weakening the structure.

[123everton]

There are certainly questions that need to be answered with regard to safety.

[boxtops]

Smacks of Bhopal too?

[123everton]

Just looked at the link, so it is a Hungarian company, not a multi national?

[Kromovaracun]

", I think sandyRoe's objection may be to the unfetteredness rather than the privateness"

The same objection still applies. As I say, I'm ignorant about the incident but as far as I'm aware there's not much evidence to indicate that it was a company cock-up aside from the fact they happen to own it.

[askyourgran]

I;m glad it isn't us, Obama would have be putting the word out again.