Author Archives: swanny

Opinion- The WMCA is facilitating economic fraud- It’s time to choose a side

Posted on January 14, 2024 by swanny

    The polluter pays principle is usually defined as “those who produce pollution should bear the costs of managing it to prevent damage to human health or the environment.” The research that myself and others have done to uncover … Continue reading →

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Happy 2024- Your alternative toxic calendar

Posted on January 1, 2024 by swanny

  HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU, except if you worked for Albright and Wilson or Rhodia, in which case UP YER BUM!! Yes it’s that time of year when Solvay push a calendar through local doors blowing their own trumpets, and … Continue reading →

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Albright’s toxic archives #46 The Wilson/Threlfall retirement Powwow

Posted on December 18, 2023 by swanny

  They did like their social gatherings in “the society of friends” and banquets and feasts- from pig to man and from man to pig again.  I have already revealed the centenary event of 1951 held at The Savoy Hotel … Continue reading →

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Albright’s chu chu

Posted on December 5, 2023 by swanny

Sorry steam engine buffs, but I’m not a fan. I have looked at how toxic and highly dangerous chemicals came to be carried through residential Oldbury HERE. This post is an addition to that piece in that I came across … Continue reading →

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The toxic Sandwell plan and legacy- OBJECT NOW!

Posted on November 23, 2023 by swanny

    And so another chapter begins in the endless cycle of corruption in allowing housing to be built on contaminated land and what little green space is left in this rotten borough. The name has changed, from The Black … Continue reading →

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Bending Science- book review and 2023 perspective opinion

Posted on November 11, 2023 by swanny

“How special interests corrupt public health research.” The title of this 2008 published book drew me in, because I already knew the playbook having experienced the long denials of an multinational company spinning lies and deceit about their waste dumping … Continue reading →

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The horrors of white phosphorus

Posted on October 30, 2023 by swanny

It’s all very well the apologists of Albright and Wilson promoting how wonderful this chemical was when it clearly brought death and injury to the area, and if the Germans had been lucky in World War Two and hit this … Continue reading →

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Peter Bloore- CIMAH, CIMAH CIMAH CIMAH CIMAH COMEDIAN…..

Posted on October 18, 2023 by swanny

…..he lies and nose, it grows and grows, it grows and gro.oh.oh.oh’s   The semantic snake and phosphorus pork pie projectile vomitter known as Peter Bloore was something else of the night. Throughout the 1980’s and early 1990’s his name … Continue reading →

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White phosphorus misadventures #19 Who spiked The Baron’s Brew?

Posted on October 6, 2023 by swanny

  This early misadventure concerns another 19th Century crime involving this notorious easily obtainable poison. To Germany then with the story, as the 5th October 1861 Kent Times, Tonbridge and Sevenoaks Examiner explained. It is stated that the case had received popular … Continue reading →

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Pondering an old Bugle Barnett’s brick works query

Posted on September 24, 2023 by swanny

  The above picture and article below appeared in the 12th August Black Country Bugle in 1999. It was a query sent in by a descendent of a brick worker thought to be Barnett’s brickworks in Dudley Port. The photograph … Continue reading →

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