RE: He's in trouble - who is He?18 Sep 2022 12:58
Trafigura a toxic company and the clever Guardian newspaper
The 2006 Ivory Coast toxic waste dump was a health crisis in Ivory Coast in which a ship registered in Panama, the Probo Koala, chartered by the Singaporean-based oil and commodity shipping company Trafigura Beheer BV, offloaded toxic waste to an Ivorian waste handling company which disposed of it at the port of Abidjan. The local contractor, a company called Tommy, dumped the waste at 12 sites in and around the city in August 2006.[1] The dumping, which took place against a backdrop of instability in Abidjan as a result of the country's first civil war,[2] allegedly led to the death of 7 and 20 hospitalisations, with a further 26000 people treated for symptoms of poisoning.
On 11 September 2009, Trafigura, via lawyers Carter-Ruck, obtained a secret "super-injunction"[45] against The Guardian, banning that newspaper from publishing the contents of the Minton report. Trafigura also threatened a number of other media organizations with legal action if they published the report's contents, including the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation[43] and The Chemical Engineer magazine.[12] On 12 October, Carter-Ruck warned The Guardian against mentioning the content of a parliamentary question that was due to be asked about the Minton Report. Instead the paper published an article stating that they were unable to report on an unspecified question and claiming that the situation appeared to "call into question privileges guaranteeing free speech established under the 1689 Bill of Rights".[46] The suppressed details rapidly circulated via the Internet and Twitter[47][48] and, amid uproar, Carter-Ruck agreed the next day to the modification of the injunction before it was challenged in court, permitting The Guardian to reveal the existence of the question and the injunction.[49] The 11 September 2009 injunction remained in force in the United Kingdom until it was lifted on the night of 16 October"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Ivory_Coast_toxic_waste_dump
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