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Ivory Coast: Trafigura to pay for toxic clean up
Date: 13 Feb 2007
Trafigura, the Dutch oil trading group, has said that it will pay nearly $200m to clean up the consequences of a pollution incident involving toxic waste.
The company has stressed that the payment does not constitute damages, and it is not admitting liability for the event, during which ten people died and thousands of others fell ill. The company said that waste had been passed to an authorised company for incineration, but instead the waste was dumped.
The Ivory Coast government is to drop any future prosecution over the affair.
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