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500 litres of Diesel Fuel Spills from Ruptured Truck in East End

September 28th, 2008 Posted in Health and Safety, News and Commentary

Ironically, on the very day that consultants from ROCHE-NCE promised an angry mob at Lansdowne that a new truck highway would be “100% safe”, an eighteen wheeler carrying diesel fuel collided with a van at Boundary Rd. The truck lost control and careened into the ditch, rupturing its fuel tanks and spilling more than 500 litres of toxic diesel fuel. A fire service haz-mat team and clean up crew was called in to contain the spill. The Ministry of the Environment is now investigating the accident.

Source: Metro News, Sept 26, 2008.  Click here for the full article.

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