tv Documentary RT August 9, 2017 6:29am-7:01am EDT
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or document that it is that is a bit long but depend on what they say the must visit look out that evening i meant as an a.m.a. argument given exert myself step in and say it was good but was immediately made us all still though they don't feel that by any number a remember that i don't is that is the pinnacle of this ng and. that no surprise i make the i'm never really pretty damn was not about the one you got me any. in two thousand and fifteen gave four point five billion dollars to each share holders but not a single cent has been given to the decontamination. for weeks we tried to reach the communications department at tao to get an interview without success while that. 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 so i have to agree. never called us back
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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. shareholder. yeah i've been talking about this here where the new resolution was at least. that i was there but what that would serve. me ask you to please leave. your. story stand here you understand you're arrested on this and. we quickly realized that we were not welcome. yes they're. going to call this. ok so i can stay there. ok so we carefully followed their rules for forty five long minutes. until the communications department had. decided to finally set foot outside.
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hello sorry to disturb you i'm a french journalist. relations and we told you all sorry why i don't have any thing to say you don't want to talk about. you don't want to talk about the kids that are sick i'm sorry it wouldn't be appropriate for me to say anything. so we 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. i'm not on the property here. though are. you working for mr d. there is over think of me all you working for. are you concerned about syria are
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you concerned about what's happening in bhopal you know there are still contaminating the kids look russia not just thirteen years old it's terrible so why don't he's not doing anything. i don't know sir. but doesn't touch you you don't mind that's everybody so whether he's not doing anything. a few days later we finally received an email from dow the company in the manse bhopal it was 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
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globe you know. nothing is more fundamental. nothing. 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 announce the 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. deal and then. there's a lot of the chemistry between. dupont made its fortune with dynamite.
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nylon. and tough line get a magical material that prevents food from sticking to pans want. to. be built. however behind the success of teflon dupont hides a dark secret i just can't believe. the line more than people. dying because of what they. think five. years ago were at a window on. this respect. at the heart of this drama is one city parkersburg. lost in the eastern us.
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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 the pictures it's you it's me. without gray hair. in the middle yeah you know i was so happy just by you 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 the dupont name and door swung open it was like princes coming through the door you know. and first one buyer and one. bright future with.
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where you're 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 it they've never 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.
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bucky survived he is now thirty five years old. but his childhood was spent between his home and the hospital. i had thirty surgeries in the 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. i still have one functioning. we had to put. a mask on him and it guards because he wasn't face. he had to wear those for. i would say three months one months. only the only way that he got to tame up was just to eat how he sees as a key to good and to have you know so many surgeries and it's pretty intense from
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walking out of public going through a store or a restaurant. food as you answer all the eyes around you. school when you go in and you're trying to make here for. all this is your differ. after her maternity leave suzanne bailey began to suspect her job as the cause of bucky's deformity. a mysterious source of to one molecule in particular. eight the molecule in tough love that stops food from sticking to pans and i went back to work the first day i went to the locker and i found 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 deformities that had around her face. and i thought that sounds just like back in. it was very similar to what they see absolutely very similar
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almost identical to what he had that's why i knew there was something wrong i thought that's why i connect. the scientific studies suzanne bailey found had been conducted by a subcontractor of dupont it's study baby rats whose mothers were exposed to see eight they developed abnormal eye lenses. i immediately walked at that door went down to medical and i said is this what's wrong with my baby oh no no. it was a motto. that. 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 susanne bailey and
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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 sell the women home out. don't worry it won't hurt the men just the when we feel that it can cause trouble so awesome or hurt me. clinton whimsically it was a lab technician she handled c eight for thirty years to bring the fumes from all the samples we bring. though we just you know as a time when we would take care of us and. so i just did my jobs for years. and we didn't realize our health was an issue then. surgeon diagnosed me.
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a batch or sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself and taken your last wrong turn. caught up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry but only i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each . but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was a case still some marshawn to feel those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters in mind it's consumed with this one to. speak to because there are no other takers. same that mainstream media has met its make.
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factory he worked in a team with three other technicians. the buddies people i really love seeing him every day cared about those guys are all dead and i should bet they didn't see retirement now not. when 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 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 so rather than to do anything they just read it out.
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i never seen a letter like that. i'm mad you can say well. we could've prevented a lot of laws. if they've told us there's a problem. i had to cover. my day law. why didn't they have us protected. too costly. 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 the truth that they were told everything when you actually know i have
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interviewed some employees and they were not aware of anything we told her lawyers everything we do is sit in your 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 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 and the setting in my court yard to live with water no flowers and we got our water bill and the mail on with that bill came a letter. the psychic gift form letters all the time saying like ants own banging
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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 starring that and then the flag started first of all i want. say air which is used by the or what do you have to do. joe cocker's 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 kennedy they. like to know more about the cia if you see this film is not in the 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
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a long legal battle the judge forces the company to declassify their internal studies on seeing. joe cocker discovers the truth behind the factory of parkersburg . project gates 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 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 hit them up about it and they. say right here they chose not to do anything about it. and they knew what was coming with a liability as of a god they were trying to slide under the radar trust for so long
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they have done nothing but lie for years the faithful about what this stuff is all about they're all out here because of what they've done there's people dying because of what they've done. during all these years more than seventy thousand people have been drinking contaminated water. in two thousand and eleven both scientific research and the us justice system established that c. 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 all and when bought.
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and out of quietness for about seventeen years. to kill me a couple. i still have time for a problem and her cholesterol. and theirs are also shared with siri. today can doesn't have a colon anymore he too is living with an astronomy bag of a sudden you don't function normally but you and. that's when. there is not any. any hope and that's called change. controllers where i go what i had to eat. and just control didn't want to things in my life. anyway i did throughout.
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the 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 plan to eliminate all c eight emissions. i wanted to show you these sentences here. but finally no measures are taken in their argument it's not economically attractive. that is what you're ready for. that's for we were married as a long. haul and all. that's crazy that's all that bad you know that the head of and it's. just disregarded kept on it every day or it was company greed that caused this whole situation they knew what they were doing to us
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and they continued to do it for money that's the only 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 thousand four hundred ninety nine remaining victims like robots can 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 to some point. there will be a trial so. transfers are made living long enough to receive. orders
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to know you're going. to be turned on which may very well you're injured. and i think they should straighten up. and i can write with a marriage. dupont refused all of our requests for an interview so we drove to their headquarters in 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. debase 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 seen you can see me i'm making signs that.
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you know that there is like an incredible amount of documents showing that you have known that people for the past thirty years. and knew that you were poisoning your employees at the washington word splints. season well you know the recognizing the fact that you have a degree poisoned so i was in the first sense. ok. yeah . my question is ok. today we are in two thousand and sixteen steals three thousand five. but first we serve a disease that's a waiting to just have the right to get to trial i mean how long are you going to deny your responsibility are you waiting that day old i. know it will provide for your nothing else. no out but
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if people provide with. we did receive a press release from dupont. but without a single word for the victims. they claim to have studied see it carefully for 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
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we all willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but noone signed up to be friggin poisoned by our own people that was nuked or biological and chemical products the said do not truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from to compensate every soldier marine airman and sailor that was on the ground that are complaining about illnesses from exposure from the berm pits would literally send to be a pro and they don't want to pay it so the waiting decades
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