Monsanto, BP and Veolia agree to pay for cleanup of contaminated Welsh site
by Tom Levitt from on (#E845)
Five decades after toxic waste from a Monsanto plant was dumped at Brofiscin quarry in south Wales, companies agree to pay towards cleanup costs
Monsanto, BP and Veolia have agreed to pay to contribute to the cleanup of a former quarry in South Wales that was polluted with a cocktail of toxic waste, including Agent Orange derivatives, dioxins and PCBs.
The agreement, confirmed by Welsh officials to the Guardian, marks the end of a five-decade-long saga that began when thousands of tonnes of chemical and industrial waste from a Monsanto-owned plant in Newport was dumped at the Brofiscin quarry, near the village of Groesfaen, in the 1960s and 70s.
