BBC deletes important story on toxic waste dumping in the Ivory Coast after legal threats

Wow, Thanks for all the great comments. I couldn't agree more about traditional journalism's demise and needing to seek out alternative truthful ways to receive the news. In a place that is not controlled by money.

Trafigura actually paid $198 million to the 30,000 victims. The Ivory Coast Gov't. resigned
over the incident, but the real story is Trafigura's attempt to limit news related to the incident. This is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to dumping of European waste off of African waters. Most of the dumpers have ties to Mafia controlled operations near Naples. Even legitimate corporations seem to have no conscience.

It seems the only way to get real news now and days, true unchanged news, is from here.

This is a little ironic considering the BBC tends to deliver slightly less sugar coated news than US media, but as previously mentioned, "not exactly the kind of story they would typically cover." Depressing story to say the least, and rather than try to clean up the mess, valuable time will be wasted denying the toxic dump.

Trafigura is a Swiss based company (thus no shoreline to worry about endangering). Trafigura has close ties with a member of the House of Lords, thus the pressure to shut down the story. This company is also run by former associates of Marc Rich (famously pardoned by Bill Clinton) for financial crimes. If you check out the story you will see that they bought heavily contaminated crude oil then dumped it killing 15 people and sickening 100's. My next question you can ask yourself? How does the stolen oil from Nigeria get to the market? The technology exists to code the source of crude oil yet the men in power are resisting this effort to stop oil dumping and slops dumping in the Seas.

Some brave reporters have surely overstepped their bounds . I am glad they did . I wish they were free to cover the story and let us all know the truth !

I'm suprised the BBC even attempted to cover this in the first place, surely they must know that they should reserve themselves to banter with the government and covering the royal family, the BBC shouldnt cover real issues, otherwise we'll just end up with a load of sensationalised bull crap full of lies.

I would say "this is the problem with state run news and people who don't have freedom of press" but who am I kidding right? Like our news isn't censored by or directly written by the government on a daily basis? hahaha

This is why there are pirates in those waters, they are doing what they are going in retaliation for not having justice for the dumping of the toxic wastes.

Freaking outrageous. Good catch, Vick, thank you for finding and sharing this.

i cant imagine the blinding greed that must take over a persons mind that would allow them to do such a thing to a fellow human being

I read that it was suggested the African pirate situation developed as a way for the people to protect their shores from the dumping of toxic waste. I don't doubt it!

Its because real news rarely makes the paper. things like this the higher government dont want the people to have the power,freedom, and/or opinion because all three takes in one aspact or another;control. And (they) don't want that.