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      • The last phosphorus waste carrier
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        • Phosphine production at Trinity Street #number 1
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          • Gower Tip, Tividale
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    • Rhodia UK Limited
      • Meetings @ Trinity Street
        • “Small amounts” of sincerity
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      • How do you solve a problem like “the mere”? Part one
        • Part two
        • Part Three
        • Part Four
          • Post script propaganda
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      • CLOSING DOWN- FOR SALE PART ONE
        • About face-The slippery slope
        • Hydrogeological risk assessment #1
      • CLOSING DOWN FOR SALE- PART 2
    • Solvay
  • Waste Dumping
    • AW’s Trinity Street canal links
      • The Jim Crow Arm
      • The Houghton Chemical arm
      • Cutting off the toxic limb
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      • Toxic trail revisited
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      • Licensing context
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        • The preposterous line up.
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          • Waste Side Story 2- The HSE site Director’s cut.
        • Rhodia’s laughing gas- Begone with the wind
      • Licence breaches
        • Swanwatch observations
    • wastes of time and space!
    • Pants on fire
  • FOI/EIR
    • ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
      • FOI REQ 1- The AW phosphorus factory.
        • FOI REQ 2 Rhodia Phosphoric acid leak
      • FOI REQ 3 Links between the Trinity Street Factory and Rattlechain Tip
        • FOI REQ 4 Rattlechain lagoon waste audit
      • FOI REQ 5 Discharge consent into Birmingham canal
        • FOI REQ 6 Restoration options for Rattlechain lagoon
      • FOI REQ 7 Phosphine monitoring
        • FOI REQ 8 Dredging lagoon- Further Risk assessment
      • FOI REQ 9 other P4 waste sites in UK?
        • FOI REQ 10 Closure plan for the Rattlechain site
      • FOI REQ 11 Guidance at rattlechain
        • FOI REQ 12 “Missing links”
      • FOI REQ 13 environmental consultants
        • FOI REQ 14 what’s in your backyard?
      • FOI REQ 15 Gower Tip
        • FOI REQ 16 site licence 303
      • FOI REQ 17 LICENCE SL947 “RATTLECHAIN TIP”
        • FOI REQ 18 LICENCE SL261 BRADES HALL TIP
      • FOI REQ 19 LICENCE SL130 REAR OF LONDON STEEL WORKS
    • BRITISH WATERWAYS
      • BW Request 1 Jim Crow and Houghton Chemical arms
      • BW Request 2 silt sampling and disposal on BCN
      • BW Request 3 Historic British waterways tips on the BCN
      • BW REQ 4- Monks Tip
      • BW REQ 5 Dredging in Dudley Port/Oldbury areas
      • BW REQ 6 historic deed maps
      • BW REQ 7 Churchbridge and Portway Arms
    • SANDWELL MBC
      • SMBC FOI 1 Hazardous substances
        • SMBC FOI 2- Rattlechain fire correspondence
      • SMBC REQ 3 Gower Tip
        • SMBC REQ 4- Brades Village
      • SMBC REQ 5 Contaminated land
        • SMBC REQ 6 Inspection strategy
      • SMBC REQ 7 Radioactive nuclides
      • SMBC REQ 8 and 9- Sheepwash LNR
        • SMBC REQ 10 WASTE LICENCES SL113 and SL129
      • SMBC REQ 11 SL502 Duport Properties Ltd
        • SMBC REQ 12 Extra cctv/planning at rattlechain
      • SMBC REQ 13 Coneygre Foundry site licence SL487
        • SMBC REQ 14- Dudley Port planning document
      • SMBC REQ15 & 16- Sheepwash landfill site licence SL434
    • MOD
      • MOD REQ 1& 2 Albright and Wilson’s military weapons and rattlechain
        • MOD REQ 3 AW bomb disposal and recovery
      • MOD REQ 4 AW bomb publications
        • MOD REQ 5 Albright and Wilson defence contracts
      • MOD REQ 6- The 120mm white phosphorus shell
        • MOD REQ 7 White phosphorus munitions in the environment
      • MOD REQ 8 Removal policy of MOD munitions from SSSI sites
        • MOD REQ 9- White Phosphorus Naval flares
      • MOD REQ 10 Experiments involving avian and marine species
    • DEFRA
      • FERA- REQUEST- WHITE PHOSPHORUS TESTING
      • DEFRA REQ 1- Who are the CHaIRS group?
      • DEFRA REQ 2- Hazardous Oldbury substances
      • DEFRA REQ 3- emails between VLA and Rhodia
    • FSA
      • FSA REQ 1 Chemical hazards group
      • FSA REQ 2 Rattlechain/P4
      • FSA REQ 3 CHaIRS minutes
      • FSA REQ 4 “
      • FSA REQ 5 and 6 – CHaIRS meeting 7 and 8
      • FSA REQ 7 a query
      • FSA REQ 8 Another
    • HPA
      • HPA REQ 1 White phosphorus poisoning
      • HPA REQ 2 Proposed human health study
        • HPA REQ 3 The HPA contract and clauses
      • HPA REQ 4- SIP grenade risk management
        • HPA REQ 5 AW bombs at large
      • HPA REQ 6 Birth defects
    • THE HSE
      • HSE REQ 1- White/yellow phosphorus rodenticides
      • HSE REQ 2 Advice given in relation to “site inspection”
      • HSE REQ 3 FIRE AT RHODIA TRINITY STREET
      • HSE REQ 4 and 5 FIRE AT RHODIA TRINITY STREET INVESTIGATION REPORT
    • NORTH SOMERSET COUNCIL
      • NSC REQ 1 A/W Strode Road Clevedon site
      • NSC REQ 2 Albright and Wilson Portishead site remediation
    • KNOWSLEY COUNCIL
      • Knowsley B.C REQ
    • NATURAL ENGLAND
      • NE REQ Removal of swans from rattlechain
        • NE REQ 2 Further icences issued concerning rattlechain lagoon
    • Miscellaneous REQ 1- white phosphorus
      • Miscellaneous REQ 2- White phosphorus and zinc phosphide-Dangerous chemical shakes on a plane
    • SANDWELL PCT
      • SPCT REQ
    • WEST MIDLANDS FIRE SERVICE
      • WM Fire Service REQ
  • People
    • Advice for the suffering resident
  • Wildfowl
    • Wildfowl Poisoning
      • P4 Risk to predators
      • Monitoring movements
      • The birds of Rattlechain lagoon
    • Death of a Swan
      • The “total phos” up
      • Rhodia’s dirty dozen part 1
      • Rhodia’s dirty dozen part 2
    • Post mortem reports
    • Chemical Hazards and Identification Risk Surveillance group (CHaIRS)
  • White Phosphorus
    • White phosphorus is “highly toxic”- Albright and Wilson tell us so.
      • “Safety first”- chuck it all down the Rattlechain
    • White Phosphorus Toxicity
      • US ATSDR Toxicity Profile
    • Environmental releases
      • P4 in sediments- persistence
      • P4 in sediments- remediation
    • Historic methods of production
    • Poison, Murder and Deception
      • Military study smokescreens
  • Beyond The Rattlechain lagoon.
    • The changing site-John’s Lane
    • The former Vono lagoon/London Works Steel
      • The Autobase site
    • Former Duport’s Tip- ACT 1-Soilage
      • Former Duport’s Tip-ACT 2- Sand Castles in the sky #1
        • Former Duport’s Tip-ACT 3- Sand Castles in the sky #2
          • Former Duport’s Tip ACT 4- The Never Ending Foundry
    • Sheepwash Local Nature Reserve
    • Former Tividale Sewage works 1- where there’s muck….
      • Former Tividale sewage works 2- ….there’s money
        • Former Tividale sewage works 3- “A crap site for residential”
          • Former Tividale sewage works 4- Flawed assessments
            • A flawed appeal #1
            • A flawed appeal #2
    • Former Rose Lane and Brades Hall- From agriculture to industrial tips
      • Former Rose Lane/Brades Hall- Temple Way built on dangerous ground
        • “East of Rose Lane” – Mintworth’s carry on tipping
          • Land East of Rose Lane/Macdonald Close- a pathway to nowhere
  • Toxic deceptions of the chemical industry
    • Boardrooms, lobbying and with a little help from your “friends”
    • Educating “plebs” and Willy Peter.
    • Oh what a tangled web they weave….
    • The cost of “small amounts”- the elixir fallacy
    • “You need us” consumer
      • Whiter than white
    • Hymn of the scientific farmers
  • West Midlands Doomwatch sites
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