PACIFIC ISLAND TO DUMP ASBESTOS AT SEA?
Following the 2004 hurricane, Heta, there are reportedly sheets of asbestos lying around on the island of Niue in the South Pacific Ocean. Opposition MP, Terry Coe, says he wants these to be dumped at sea.
Apparently, sheets of asbestos are stacked in containers near the airport, while some houses, occupied and unoccupied still have asbestos roofs that need removing, but the government has not yet come to a decision regarding their removal.
Coe is reported as saying, "The Forum’s coming and the place looks so untidy with all this fibre-lite that’s stored around the villages that’s been taken out. The best idea is the same as the Cooks - is that we take it out to sea and dump it in the sea. We could put in containers and then hull the containers, take them out and just sink them out there."
I'm sorry, but I think untidiness is the least worrying of the issues that need to be addressed.