#chisso — Public Fediverse posts
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Like the #Chisso corporation and #MinamataDisease pattern:
> The new company that emerges from the ashes of Purdue Pharma will be allowed to continue making and selling opioid products, including OxyContin.
> But architects of this deal say future opioid profits will go to help fund drug treatment programs.
> #PurduePharma itself will re-emerge from bankruptcy as a new company operated as a form of public trust corporation.
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/01/1031053251/sackler-family-immunity-purdue-pharma-oxcyontin-opioid-epidemic
#ChissoCorporation #TheCorporation -
I went to learn from Minamata again today and still need to digest the more important experiences. It would have been great if we had the time and energy to visit OtomeTsuka (Maid Hill) but we didn't so we took a look at this art memorial while walking to a view of the sea and back. Brass balls might serve to represent corporate attitudes toward externalities like poisoning an ecology and killing poor people.
- https://minamata195651.jp/guide_en.html
#MinamataDisease #Chisso #TheCorporation #MethylMercury -
> Presiding Judge Yuki Tatsuno ordered that ¥2.75 million in damages be paid to each of the 128 people who sued the central government, the prefectural government of Kumamoto and chemical maker Chisso, which caused the pollution.
- https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/09/27/japan/crime-legal/minamata-disease-osaka-ruling/
#Japan #JapanTime #Chisso #Kumamoto #KumamotoPrefecture #Minamata -
Corporate Tradition:
> .. at the end of 1959, #Chisso’s president publicly drank a glass of water from the Cyclator, without announcing that the wastewater from the acetaldehyde plant, which contained mercury, was not being run through the #Cyclator. An eerily similar performance took place on March 24, 2011 when Tokyo’s Governor #IshiharaShintarō drank a glass of tap water on national television..
https://apjjf.org/2012/10/11/Timothy-S.-George/3715/article.html
#TimGeorge #Minamata #FukushimaDaiIchi #KishidaFumio #SafetyPerformance -
> .. at the end of 1959, #Chisso’s president publicly drank a glass of water from the Cyclator, without announcing that the wastewater from the #acetaldehyde plant, which contained mercury, was not being run through the #Cyclator. An eerily similar performance took place on March 24, 2011 when #TokyoGovernor #IshiharaShintarō drank a glass of tap water on national television to “prove” that it was safe from #RadioactiveContamination.
https://apjjf.org/2012/10/11/Timothy-S.-George/3715/article.html
#TimothyGeorge #MinamataDisease
