Code of the West:The only 'good' Indian is dead Indian!

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In today's paper: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-exporting-dirty-fuel-pollution-choked-india-51504786

U.S. oil refineries that are unable to sell a dirty fuel waste product at home are exporting vast quantities of it to India instead.
Petroleum coke, (petcoke) the bottom-of-the-barrel leftover from refining Canadian tar sands crude and other heavy oils, is cheaper and burns hotter than coal. But it also contains more planet-warming carbon and far more heart- and lung-damaging sulfur — a key reason few American companies use it...Laboratory tests on imported petcoke used near New Delhi found it contained 17 times more sulfur than the limit set for coal, and a staggering 1,380 times more than for diesel, according to India's court-appointed Environmental Pollution Control Authority. India's own petcoke, produced domestically, adds to the pollution.
Industry officials say petcoke has been an important and valuable fuel for decades, and its use recycles a waste product. Health and environmental advocates, though, say the U.S. is simply exporting an environmental problem. The U.S. is the world's largest producer and exporter of petcoke, federal and international data show...."Fifty percent of children in Delhi have abnormalities in their lung function — asthma, bronchitis, a recurring spasmodic cough. That's 2.2 million children, just in Delhi," said Dr. Sai Kiran Chaudhuri, head of the pulmonary department at the Delhi Heart & Lung Institute

No doubt President There's No Global Warming would tweet: ''Better them than U.S."

[propbeanie]

Surely someone can "invent" a safer use for that junk? If it's coke, it burns, so can it be crushed and separated by weight, then used for fuel or in steel manufacturing, I wonder? Then you'd have a really dirty by-product of that process...

[Eichhörnchen]

I believe we 'export' a lot of our household refuse to India as well...

[Jimbuna]

Give it to NK, I'm sure they would accept it with open arms.

[Catfish]

..which all only diverts from the initial practice of sending trash and waste to other countries, while selling it as help. Double standards.

OT here but Trump has done so much against environmental protection, that it will take decades to even get it back to those halfways civilised double standards (which are already ridiculous). Hard to believe that people like him or Pruitt are even able to do what they do, today. Seems the times are anything but "enlightened".

[Platapus]

If we can't make profits over here
we might as well make profits over there

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Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

I believe we 'export' a lot of our household refuse to India as well...

Indeed starting with the world's largest ship breaking yard at Alang India.

The shipyards at Alang recycle approximately half of all ships salvaged around the world. It is considered the world's largest graveyard of ships. The yards are located on the Gulf of Khambat, 50 km (31 mi) southeast of Bhavnagar. Large supertankers, car ferries, container ships, and a dwindling number of ocean liners are beached during high tide, and as the tide recedes, hundreds of manual laborers move onto the beach to dismantle each ship, salvaging what they can and reducing the rest to scrap.
The salvage yards at Alang have generated controversy about working conditions, workers' living conditions, and the impact on the environment. One major problem is that despite many serious work-related injuries, the nearest full service hospital is 50 km (31 mi) away in Bhavnagar.

(enlarges) In Pakistan it's much the same: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/11/the-ship-breakers/100859/

A shipyard worker is enveloped in fumes coming off a separating wall he is cutting through with his blowtorch inside the hull of a ship being dismantled in one of the 127 ship-breaking plots in Gaddani, some 40Kms west of Karachi, Pakistan, on July 9, 2012. Gaddani's ship-breaking yards employ some 10,000 workers including welders, cleaners, crane operators and worker supervisors. The yards are one of the largest ship-breaking operations in the world rivaling in size those located in India and Bangladesh. It takes 50 workers about three months to break down a midsize average transport sea vessel of about 40,000 tonnes. The multimillion-dollar ship-breaking industry contributes significantly to the national supply of steel to Pakistani industries. For a six-day working week of hard and often dangerous work handling asbestos,(Note: asbestos related Mesothelioma killed former ship-breaker Steve McQueen -age 50- He blamed breaking up asbestos pipe lagging while a Marine aboard troopships!) heavy metals and PCBs, employees get paid about 300 USD a month of which half is spent on food and rent for run-down rickety shacks near the yards

[vienna]

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