Stocamine in Alsace: 'Toxicity of chemical waste won't disappear, nobody knows how to deal with it'

A Strasbourg courtroom has authorised the everlasting containment of roughly 42,000 tonnes of extremely poisonous chemical waste: cyanide, arsenic, mercury, and extra, on the former Stocamine potash mine. France is ready to inject concrete and seal the mine galleries to guard Europe’s largest aquifer. Geological subsidence, heat-induced rock shifts, and corroding obstacles increase fears of eventual leakage into the Higher Rhine aquifer, which provides ingesting water to hundreds of thousands throughout France, Germany, and Switzerland. For in-depth evaluation and a deeper perspective on this veritable “timebomb for future generations”, FRANCE 24’s Eve Irvine welcomes Marcos Buser, Geologist and Social Scientist.



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