Recommendations should make future environmental scandals impossible – The majority MPs in particular are satisfied with the outcome of the inquiry committee. — © BELGIAN – The final report of the PFOS Commission of Inquiry provides recommendations that, in principle, a new scandal such as the one involving 3M in Zwijndrecht should never become reality … Read more
– © Marc Herremans – Antwerp, Zwijndrecht – Lantis, the developer of the Oosterweel Connection, can no longer move soil contaminated with PFOS at its yards on the Left Bank for the time being. On Thursday, the Council of State suspended the declaration of conformity of a technical report that makes this earthmoving possible. “We … Read more
READ ALSO. It has not stopped with a threat: 3M was unable to respond to inspection and now has to partially shut down production (+) The Environment Department and the Care and Health agency announced on Friday that 3M must at least temporarily shut down production lines that emit PFAS. The company had failed to … Read more
Speaking of bad luck: a pregnant woman bought a house in Zwijndrecht last year, just a few hundred meters from the 3M factory, which now appears to be a major source of PFOS pollution. Stefanie Bellinckx told her story on Wednesday evening in the VRT program ‘The appointment’. Striking: the soil certificate issued by OVAM … Read more
– © BELGA – OVAM top woman Henny De Baets had something to explain to the PFOS investigation committee. When the scandal erupted, she was very emphatically in the crosshairs because her service had failed to inform the population about the pollution in Zwijndrecht. But she did not cut that knot, she emphasizes. “The cabinets … Read more
Photo: MARC HERREMANS – MEDIA HOUSE – 3M, the American chemical company that is considered responsible for the PFOS pollution in Zwijndrecht and the surrounding area, has received more than 5 million euros in subsidies from the Flemish government in recent years. This is apparent from data that Groen MP Mieke Schauvliege has requested. – … Read more
Almost everyone in Flanders gets too much PFAS to be healthy. This is stated in the new report from the Flemish contract holder on the PFAS problem. He argues in favor of phasing out production and consumption and draws the attention of the government to the need for a remediation approach. But at the same … Read more
Zwijndrecht / Antwerp – At the end of June, her party chairman stated that a settlement had been reached with 3M “because the government had not built up a legal position for twenty years”. Today Minister of the Environment Zuhal Demir (N-VA) calls in a battery of lawyers to bring the American multinational to its … Read more
Two 3M bosses had come over specially from the US headquarters. The director for Europe was also there, in the Flemish Parliament. To be roasted there by the PFOS Commission of Inquiry about the chemical pollution in Zwijndrecht. It became a bare journey. The bangs didn’t bounce. “I can’t answer that question,” to the end. … Read more
Zwijndrecht – The 3M factory in Zwijndrecht operates in full accordance with the environmental permit. The company said so in a statement. According to 3M, the substance FBSA is indeed present in wastewater from certain production processes, but it is said to be in low concentrations with no indication of toxicity. – 3M operates with … Read more