-- begin forwarded message: -- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:25:59 +0900 From: Hendrik To: Multiple recipients of NETSOURCE-L <netsource-l@mail.think.service> Subject: [NS] On the Environmental Impact of Modern Warfare (4) Excerpt from InfoBeat Morning Coffee Edition for Friday, April 23, 1999 *** Serbs say bombs damage ecology PANCEVO, Yugoslavia (AP) - Normally spring green, the wheat fields blackened overnight, enveloped by a thick, eye-stinging vapor that moved slowly northward. For local farmers, the black rain that discolored their fields added a new fear to their struggle to endure NATO airstrikes - a toxic harvest this fall. Recent hits on the country's biggest oil refinery and a fertilizer plant left a chemical pall hanging over the fertile farmland just northeast of Belgrade. Plant manager Miralem Djindo claimed catastrophe was averted only because tanks normally holding 20,000 tons of choking ammonia were empty. Toxicologist Slobodan Tosevic said the hit caused some leakage of phosgene, a poison gas with the smell of newly mowed hay. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559276480-a48 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Subscription information, appended by the listserver: * if you want to leave this list please send an empty message to <leave-netsource-list@hiz.bc.ca> * if you know someone who wants to join this list, please tell them to send an empty message to <join-netsource-list@hiz.bc.ca> ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- end forwarded message --