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Huizen, The Netherlands, December 25. 2002
Second letter to the Ambassador of the State of India Mrs. Shyamala B. Cowsik
Buitenrustweg 2
2517 KD Den Haag
webmaster@indianembassy.nl
Your Excellency,
As a follow up to my letter of August 15. 2001 in which I tried to warn the Indian people for the dangers of burning biomass in your energy stations, I now feel obliged to do the same concerning the fabrication of so called 'green bricks' for building purposes.
As in The Netherlands a technology was developed to produce bricks with fly ash and other chemical waste with a so called 'cold immobilisation technology' (AARDELITE), I have serious doubts about the safety of those bricks in the long run. This because of the endless differences of the compounds of those raw materials that will be used which also contain radioactive emitters as radon nucleons.
As a victim of those tests in a secret laboratory at Hoogovens (now Corus) in the Netherlands mr. Robert Kahlman developed serious illness. He had to test all kinds of chemical waste in a bunker in order to create a brick that was hard enough to be used in buildings. Up to 90% of toxic-waste and fly ash is used in green bricks and is also used as a replacement for artigravel pellets in concrete and in cement, next to the production of building blocks.
As a result of that project, introduced by the trading commission called the International Clean Coal Technology Cooperation The Netherlands, which was promoted by the Ministry of Economic Affaires in China, this technology of cold immobilisation of fly ash and chemical an industrial waste in bricks was presented, as you can see in the official presentation.
The danger of using those bricks is that no guarantee can be given that chemical interaction and crystallisation of some elements in the compound will emerge. The use of those bricks for construction can be hazardous because of pulverisation and the cracking of those 'green bricks'. And this can lead to the possible collapse of a building after 10, 20 or 50 years. Next to this migration of highly toxic materials out of those bricks can poison the environment; especially the water in the ground.
Below is a message from the Indian Express Newspaper (Bombay) Ltd. This entire edition is compiled in Mumbai by The Indian Express Online Media Limited, a division of The Indian Express Group of Newspapers. Managed by The Indian Express Online Media Limited and hosted by CerfNet. Monday August 14th 2000
Clear proposals of flyash-brick manufacturers in 6 weeks: HC
The High Court has asked the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) to clear applications filed by manufacuturers of bricks using flyash-sand-lime technology within six weeks. The DPCC first gives permission to set up a unit and then to operate. All incoming proposals and the pending ones should be disposed off in a month-and-a-half, said a division bench comprising Chief Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justice D K Jain. Their directions followed two petitions filed by the Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) and advocate B L Wadehra, which said the government has failed to prevent dumping of flyash in land fields which is an environment hazard.
The petitioners also urged effective utilisation of flyash in building and construction activities. The manufacture of bricks using the flyash-sand-lime technology does not cause pollution as the bricks are cured using an electric process. CPIL counsel Rakesh Khanna said the DPCC refused to permit operations of two manufacturers who were earlier brick kiln makers but have now invested huge amounts to make flyash bricks. The two manufacturers have not surrendered the land as per Supreme Court orders, the DPCC said in its letter on January 5. Five days later, it directed the units to remain closed. On April 28, the Supreme Court said matters regarding brick kilns will be taken separately and the order of land surrender will not apply to them. The DPCC should be directed to grant the two units permission to operate, Khanna told the court.
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Huizen, The Netherlands, August 15th. 2001
Letter to the Ambassador of the State of India Mrs. Shyamala B. Cowsik
To H.E. Ms. Shyamala B. Cowsik
Ambassador of India to the Netherlands
Buitenrustweg 2,
2517 KD The Hague
Your Excellency,
Herewith I send you a copy of my letter to the appropriate European Commissions on August 15th 2001, in order to warn for a possible economical disruption concerning the energy supply in developing countries, as well as for the consequences for all people because of the diffused spread of carcenogenic and toxic materials, such as heavy metals, into the air. The text speaks for itself.
With the highest regards,
Robert M. Brockhus
Westkade 227, 1273 RJ Huizen,
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 035-5244141
E-mail: sdn@planet.nl
Website: india.htm
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Members of the committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy
Subject:
New type of economical colonialism in developing countries with subsidy of European Community
Huizen, The Netherlands, August 15. 2001
L.s.,
This is the third mail you receive from the Social Databank Netherlands. All members of your committee with an e-mail box will receive this mail, and the members of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer policy will be informed as well, next to the members of the committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market and on Budgetary Control. Also the appropriate contacts with the press will have a copy of this mail. In the Netherlands the government and all members of parliament with an e-mail address have received a third version, as well as the Dutch press and broadcasting services.
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