Asbestos Removal in Manila Thermal (no captions)

This is a compilation of videos of friable asbestos removal in Manila Thermal Power Plant. For the video with captions and explanations of what is happening see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GUWHiPVsaQ

In this video you can see how much asbestos dust is released and you can also see how it poses risks to exposed workers who are only using store-bought dust masks or no masks at all. Dry asbestos is being swept out in the open with no safety measures to protect the many other workers who are demolishing the plant, and the surrounding community which includes Adamson University, Unilever and residential areas.

Removal was made by Waste Solutions & Management Services, Inc. or WSMSI

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• asbestos removal
• manila
• mtpp
• philippines
• adamson university
• dust
• emission
• lung cancer
• illegal
• denr
• violation
• environment
• hazard
• safety
• napocor
• psalm
• friable
• npc
• asbestosis
• wsmsi

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Part III:

that nobody was bothered and even the Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources did not know this. THIS WAS KEPT SECRET. But the effect on Filipino people and surroundings at site, as We saw it, it is the worse accident for PCB. This could be comparable to an explosion of Chemical Bomb in the Middle East during 1990 Gulf War or Dessert Storm...

BUT NOBODY CARES...

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Part II:

The contamination goes beyond re-claiming it, that up to the catch basin and drain canal to Pasig River was evidently tainted. As per previous laboratory test the contamination is about 850,000 PPM fluid that burst-out on the atmosphere and surroundings. This happened August 12, 2009.

May be if we considered this seriously this accident will be the first accident of PCB unsafe handling in the Phlippines and in the whole world...

(Pls. see Part III for the continuation)

[mahalkobayanko]

Part I:

This Asbestos incident is only just a small concern from the dismantling of MTPP. But the worse scenario that this group had tookpart was they let the transformer containing PCB exploded as accident at the site, Approx. 1,400 liters of PCB transformer oil accidentally explode to the environment when it was hit by falling metal from above. They did not cautiously handled this matter.

(Pls. see Part II for the continuation)