Subject: [cwj 109] Need info on KANEGAFUCHI
From: "Adam Ma'anit" <ashaman@xs4all.nl> (by way of Corporate Watch in Japanese <cwj@corpwatch.org>)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 12:58:05 -0700
Seq: 109
------- Forwarded message follows ------- Organization: Friends of the Earth International Date sent: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:49:54 -0400 Subject: FOEI: Urgent message from FoE Norway Dear friends, We need your urgent help. Do you have any information about the=20 Japanese company KANEGAFUCHI? =20 We have found that Kanegafuchi is responsible for pollution of the=20 harbour of Oslo, Norway. The pollution is PCB, mostly used in ships=20 paint up until PCB was forbidden here in 1980. The trade name of the=20 Kanegafuchi product identified in sediments in Oslo harbour is=20 Kanechlor. =20 Friends of the Earth Norway has worked for several years to make=20 producers responsible for environmental damage caused by their=20 products. We have now made important progress. Any information you=20 might be able to come up with on this particular company would be=20 greatly appreciated. We are also interested in information on the other=20 big PCB manufaturers Monsanto, Bayer and Rhone Poulenc. =20 Thanking you in advance for your help, =20 K=E5re Olerud Head of Information/International Co-ordinator Norges Naturvernforbund / Friends of the Earth Norway E-mail: kare.olerud@naturvern.no=20 <mailto:kare.olerud@naturvern.no> Tel.: (+47) 22 40 24 00=A0 /=A0=A0 (+47) 950 73 320 CEO, is a European-based research and campaign group targeting the=20 threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment=20 posed by the economic and political power of corporations and=20 their lobby groups. Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) Paulus Potterstraat 20 1071 DA Amsterdam Netherlands Tel/Fax: +31-20-612-7023 Email: <ceo@xs4all.nl> http://www.xs4all.nl/~ceo ______________________ The Corporate Watch in Japanese http://www.corpwatch.org/japan (CWJ) mailing list is a moderated email list in English designed to connect activists campaigning against Japanese corporations and investments around the world. * To unsubscribe from the CWJ mailing list, send an email to majordomo@jca.apc.org with text "unsubscribe cwj". To subscribe to the CWJ mailing list, send a message to majordomo@jca.apc.org with the text "subscribe cwj" * The CWJ mailing list is NOT intended for wide distribution. If you would like to post messages from this list somewhere else, we ask that you first contact us at cwj@corpwatch.org ______________________