Environment, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Barbara Creecy said it will take years for the environment to recover from the impact of the UPL Chemical Warehouse fire.
CAPE TOWN - Environment, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Barbara Creecy said it would take years for the environment to recover from the impact of the UPL Chemical Warehouse fire.
Rioters in July torched the Cornubia facility, in KwaZulu-Natal, releasing chemicals into the environment. Creecy has described the incident as a serious ecological disaster: “The range of chemicals that were housed in that warehouse in undiluted form, when they went into the environment as the result of the fire, they created a very unique cocktail of toxins.”
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