In a newspaper interview (Dagens Nyheter), the former minister of energy, Birgitta Dahl admits that she approved Boliden’s export of toxic waste to Arica. In the article she describes it as one of her career’s biggest mistakes. Since the Swedish government many times has described the shipments in the mid 80’s, as solely the responsibility…
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The human rights organisation Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos Chile-Suecia, (National Commission for human rights Chile-Sweden), together with several organizations in Sweden and Europe, is now demanding that the authorities in Chile…
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In August 2019 two Femen-activists performed a manifestation outside the Swedish embassy in Paris.The message was ”toxicjustice” and they presented claims that Sweden shall take responsibility for Boliden’s toxic waste in Arica,…
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Arica in campaign for Corporate Responsibility Swedwatch and the European Coalition for Corporate Justice launch a campaign for stricter EU-regulations for corporate responsibility. The goal is to make EU-law include: A corporate…
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In a debate in Swedish Parliament, the Swedish Minister of Environment suddenly changed the Swedish position towards supporting Chile in cleaning up the contaminated areas in Arica, Chile. In a non-scripted part…
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The Senate demands that President Sebastián Piñera instruct the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to ask the Swedish government to take back toxic waste from the Scandinavian country that is currently located in…
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They defend toxic emissions in the rainforest, have questioned the benefits of seat belts and deny that passive smoking causes cancer. Exponent, the American consulting company that Boliden hired to defend itself…
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They’re Everywhere! Big Companies in Legal Scrapes Turn to Science-for-Hire Giant Exponent The Fall of Icarus is the Greek myth about a youth who gets a pair of wax-and-feather wings but soars…
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UN letters include harsh criticism of Swedish government and Boliden mining company Over 30 years after Swedish mining company Boliden shipped almost 20,000 tonnes of toxic mining waste to the Chilean city…
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Swedish law magazine Dagens Juridik (Law Today) publishes a feature report about Boliden’s controversial consultants and the ”science for hire”-firm Exponent. …
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