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point five billion dollars to it shareholders but not a single cent has been given to the decontamination. for weeks we tried to reach the communications department to get an interview without success i was going to answer those questions it's pretty important i'm not aware of who that is read off the top of my head we have fifty thousand employees i have. never called us back so we decided to go to the company's general assembly in midland in the us to ask our questions. cameras are not allowed inside so we stayed in the parking lot sorry. yeah i've been talking about this here whether any resolution is that you still. serve. me ask you to please leave. your. respect starts down here to understand.
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yet understand. we quickly realize that we were not welcome. yes there. is a call this. ok so i can stay there in the traffic. ok so we carefully followed their rules for forty five long minutes. until the communications department had. decided to finally set foot outside. alone sorry to disturb you i'm a french journalist yet for the property relations and we told no sorry. i don't have any thing to say you don't want to talk about both oh oh. you don't want to talk about the kids that are sick there i'm sorry it wouldn't be appropriate for me to get it. so we
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thought of another solution. we would bring our questions directly to the personal residence of the c.e.o. of dow mr liveris along with this letter we displayed an american style election sign to make sure that he would miss it. and i'm not on the property here. though are. you working for mr neither is over at the company are you working for. are you concerned about siri are you concerned about what's happening in bhopal you know they're all still clinton in one thousand look the kids look rational she's just thirteen years old is terrible so why does not doing anything. i don't know sir. but doesn't touch you you don't nine. so why dolly's not doing anything. a few days later we finally received an email from dow the company in the manse bhopal it was
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a terrible tragedy that we will never forget. but they relieve themselves of all responsibilities stating that we acquired union carbide more than sixteen years after the catastrophe of one thousand nine hundred four continues to address global issues through human solutions. issues like clean water as important as life itself . was working to make water safe and readily available to people all over the globe . you know. nothing is more on the mend. in dollars wake countless victims and human tragedies pile up without any damage to the company's profits. in december two thousand and fifteen dow announced the
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biggest financial operation in its history. a merger of one hundred thirty billion dollars with another american chemical giant du pont. a match made in heaven. gillette. there's a lot of good chemistry between. dupont made its fortune with dynamite. nylon. and tough line get the magical material that prevents food from sticking to patents. however behind the success of teflon dupont hides a dark secret i just can't believe. the dents on the line more than people.
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dying because of what they. think. there's a girl worth a window on. this respect. at the heart of this drama is one city parkersburg. lost in the eastern u.s. . this city was built around the dupont factory. suzanne bailey came here in one thousand seventy eight to work on the tough line production lines. i went to work in may the eighth one thousand nine hundred seventy eight that was my glorious day right there i took up pictures it's you it's me. without grey hair. in the middle
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yeah you know i was so happy just my age i was that was the lead job i mean everybody want to go there because of the money but the benefits and everything like that it was secure the chemical industry is a growing growing by leaps and bounds. i mean you can just mention to dupont name and door swung open it was like princes coming through the door you know. in first . bright future with. where you are at the so i was thrilled i was absolutely thrilled to death. a few months after starting her job at dupont suzanne bailey became pregnant in january of one nine hundred eighty one she gives birth to the little bucky. when he was born it was very traumatic they didn't know what to do with him they've never
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seen anything like it. i cannot figure out what happened. he had half an hour. half a nose the eye as a keyhole pupil. i didn't know what to do i was fraid. i had no idea what was wrong. bucky survived he is now thirty five years old. but his childhood was spent between his home and the hospital. had thirty surgeries. and in a span of you know six or seven years where they took cartilage so for my nose a metal plate here they stretched my forehead out so that they could use that skin
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to burn it down and hold my nose here and still have one functioning natural we had to put a hockey mask on him and the guards because he was in lab potentially face. he had to wear those for. i would say three months it's. only the only way that he got to take it was just to eat i always eat as a key to good and to have you know so many surgeries and it's pretty and walking out of going to. a store or a restaurant. food as you. are a new. school where you go and you're trying to make here for. all this. you're there for. after her maternity leave suzanne bailey began to suspect her job as the cause of bucky's deformity. a mysterious source of to one
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molecule in particular. the molecule in tough that stops food from sticking to it and i went back to work the first day i went to the. paper laying there i picked it up i began reading about it. it was talking about how the rats were fed the ca and what the forty's that had bass. and i thought that sounds just like backing. it was very similar to what they see absolutely very similar almost identical to what he had that's why i knew that there was something wrong i think that's why connect. the scientific studies suzanne bailey found had been conducted by a sub contractor of dupont study baby rabbits whose mothers were exposed to see if they developed abnormal eye lenses. i immediately
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walked at that door went down to medical and i said is this what's wrong with my baby. and. that was the motto. i think here. but in the meantime dupont was secretly investigating the pregnant women working in their factory two out of seven children born to the factory workers had facial deformities like bucky. shortly after dupont decided to transfer suzanne bailey and her colleagues to other departments. at the time clinton whimsically also worked in the manufacturing department of tough line. he remembers the discussion he had with his manager he said can we send all the women home out of all of. the cell don't worry him or her the men just and when we feel that it can cause trouble so awesome or hurt me.
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clinton whimsically it was a lab technician he handled c eight for thirty years breed the fumes from all the samples we breathe we just you know and the time when we would take care of it and. so i just did mage all those for years. and we didn't realize our health was an issue then. surgeon diagnose me have a new cancer. he had to take all my rectum part of my cold. i don't see clear at accounts that that is in any way i always see that because. if it was good for today. you have a team for one brief period of time and you know divorce immediately i
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feel that we got a. bad historical moment in the middle east and it is very difficult to predict how things will be called. all right i'm stan collymore and i'm neil harvey. we are going to be your hopes for the two thousand and seventy confederations cup right here in russia we're going to be visiting the host cities or so chief has a chance to petersburg and moscow can be great when i'm talking full of course also politics i think pretty much covering every topic the fans need to know about the head of the match so don't forget to tune in to some field guy it's going to be fun . let's talk about blackness and blue of being black. and always well in a big house down at least that's what i've been told but it was simply that we in relays is such because we simply forgot i'll. be seen without them the rearranged
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our playing you've told us the sickness of trusting our enemy we became their face . that's what i call a lack of blackness or understand in the blues have been black. sheep the blues have been black should mandate that we attack knowing how when and what to do to come this simple in its natural as be beck is simply tat the feelin blue is black and blue. weak. to.
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eat. for every minute. now continue emsley has to live with an astronomy bag attached to his stomach. he changes it day and night. at the factory he worked in a team with three other technicians. the buddies people i really love seen him every day cared about those guys are all dead and i should bet they didn't him see retard. now no. way emsley and his colleagues were never warned about the risks of c eight. however we procured a confidential document from dupont. it's dated one nine hundred eighty two thirty
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four years ago. in it mr carr the medical director at the time expresses concern about the consequences of c h retained in the blood of employees . he specifically recommends that practical steps be taken to reduce this exposure. all employees not just kept on area more cursed are exposed to do anything they just read it out. i never seen a letter like that. i'm mad you can say well. we could have prevented a lot of laws. if they would told us there's a problem. well i didn't cover. my day law. so i didn't have us protected. too costly.
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we tracked down bruce carr dupont's former medical director. he is now enjoying a peaceful retirement by the ocean far from parkersburg. i have a document of nine hundred eighty two showing that you are aware that see it was toxic for workers why have you not told them the truth at the time they were all told they were told the language you actually know i have interviewed some employees and they were not aware of anything we told her lawyers everything we do . you know back at night you know. you're trying to do reconstruction history and you can't do that why have you not print takin your own please. dog bullshit. du pont would not only put their employees in danger once again tens of thousands of people would be affected. they live up to seventy kilometers away from the
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factory. one man would discover this a bit by accident. joe kiger. on october thirty first two thousand he received a letter from the municipality concerning the quality of the tap water it mentions c eight the setting in my court yard to live with water in the flowers and we got our water bill and the mail on with that bill came a letter. this i can give form letters all the time saying like asamoah banging in front of over and you think about the next thing you know you throw it away and that's basically what this was it just caught my attention and i star rain that and then the flag started first of all i want. say air which is used by or what do you have to do. joe cocker's
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sought clarification on the matter. and called upon to try to find out so they put me in touch with a guy i don't know mr candidate you know like to know more about the cia this you see this film is not to worry about about it was this. and it wasn't anything to worry about and he was flat out lying on the me and i can tell them. to get to the bottom of it he takes to pont to court. after a long legal battle the judge forces the company to declassify their internal studies on cd. joe cocker discovers the truth behind the factory of parkersburg. for decades they've been dumping c eight waste into the river. to make things worse dupont has known since one thousand nine hundred four that the molecule spread into the regions tap water. the company found astronomical levels in public taps. up to
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fifty times the limit of toxicity according to the u.s. environmental protection agency. that was nineteen eighty-four and we didn't come out till two thousand so sixteen years yeah before we even had them up about it and they. say right here they chose not to do anything about it. and they knew what was common with a liability if they got they were trying to slide under the radar people trust to do it for so long they have done nothing but lie for years to pay for about what this stuff is all about they're sick people out here because of what they've done there's people dying because of what they've done. during all these years. or than seventy thousand people have been drinking contaminated water. in two thousand and eleven both scientific research and the u.s. justice system established that c.
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eight could cause six diseases thyroid disorder high cholesterol all sort of collide just high blood pressure kidney cancer or testicular cancer. today three thousand five hundred people in the parkersburg region are ill. they've all filed complaints against dupont. this is the case for earl and gwen. and out of quietness for about seventeen years. to document couple. restaurant of current problems and hair are cholesterol. and those are also shared with siri. today can doesn't have a colon anymore he too is living with an astronomy bag of
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a sudden you don't function normally but you and. that's when. there is not any and only hope and that's called change. controllers who are what i eat. and just control and want to things in my life. in a way i lived through there at. a document reveals that all of these victims could have been spared. on may twenty second one thousand nine hundred eighty four a meeting took place at the dupont headquarters the directors are worried about the consequences for the inhabitants they'd. plan to eliminate all c. eight emissions. i wanted to show you these sentences here.
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but finally no measures are taken in their argument it's not economically attractive. that is what you're paying for. that's for we were married. that's crazy that's all that bad that the head. just disregarded kept on every door it was company greed that caused this whole situation they knew what they were doing and they continued to do it for money. reason they continued to do it. dupont refuses to collectively compensate the three thousand five hundred sick people they prefer to study the cases one by one as a result since two thousand and twelve only one victim has been able to get a trial. dupont was sentenced to pay her one point six million dollars the three
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thousand four hundred ninety nine remaining victims like robots are still waiting at the current pace of the trials the last one would take place in one hundred years do you trust and then that you will get a trial at some point. there will be a trial. the chances of me living long enough to receive christ. were just another garcon another. case has to be tried. has made brilliance of. i think they should stand up to. a right with a. dupont refused all of our requests for an interview so we drove to their headquarters in
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delaware on the east coast to convince them to answer our questions. at the other end of the line we reached the head of media relations daniel turner we are doing a documentary feed the basic ways you know we meet and to make a proper interview you know at some point but first let's me it's you know i'm just here i sing you can see me here i'm making signs. you know that there is like an incredible amount of documents showing that you have known the all the boss thirty years. and you are that you were poisoning your employees at the washington word splints. season well you know the recognizing the fact they do have degree employees and so i was of persons. ok. the question. again. my question is ok i'll
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be. fine later today we are in two thousand and sixteen they'll steals three thousand five hundred person we serve a disease that's a waiting to just have the right to get the trial i mean full how long are you going to deny your responsibility are you waiting the old guy. so it will provide for your nothing else. you know how like it that people provide which i think. we did receive a press release from dupont. but without a single word for the victims. they claim to have studied c h carefully for
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decades and affirmed to have always acted responsibly. in two thousand and fifteen dupont finally stopped using c eight the company was also ordered by the courts to clean up the region. but how many generations are still to experience the after effects of this contamination. in the chemical world history inexorably tends to repeat itself. it takes decades to reveal the truth and just as many years for the multinationals to be prosecuted . in their laboratories new toxic molecules are constantly being developed. but in ten twenty thirty or forty years who knows how many new victims will be poisoned.
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