Also, a police report of an 11-year-old girl found playing on waste ground was picked up by a health visitor whose records showed the girl's mother suffered from mental health problems.
"Without this facility, we would not only be faced with the depressing prospect of piling millions of tonnes of waste into the ground over the coming years, but we would also pay through the nose to do it, " said Cllr Matheson.
In addition to property, the conglomerate includes ports management, ground services for private jets, waste management and a 26% stake in mobile operator SmarTone.
The high-level waste would then be enclosed in glass canisters and buried deep underground while the low-level waste was stored above ground in special secure facilities.
If the offcuts weren't fed into power stations, they would be burned as waste or left on the ground to decay, producing methane and CO2.
And two, the way to claim the high ground in such a debate is to contrast that waste with projects of real importance (like the Katrina bridge).
Prosecutors said the company also illegally stored and disposed of hazardous waste without a permit, instructing workers to mix coal tar sludge, a listed hazardous waste that contains benzene, on the ground.
But while these are warning signs, it is not clear that the harm in absolute numbers will be great even if the worst should happen and significant amounts of radioactive waste are spewed into the air or the ground.
Vegetables that grow on the ground are more likely to be contaminated with bacteria, since runoff from animal waste is likely the source of contamination.
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