Mothers who took the matter into their own hands
I went to see Dark Waters when it was in cinemas in Basel. It really scared me that as well as cattle being affected people were having kids with birth defects (I believe a man who had a small part was one of them).
My husband worked in the aluminium finishing industry for 20 years as a production director before leaving it behind in his early 40s and retraining in IT. He was glad to get out because the second company he worked for was pumping out high amounts of effluent into a canal that ran into the Thames. The Environment Agency were aware of this but did nothing. I used to deal with them at a heritage charity I worked for and they were pretty awful, it was like their management were just paper shufflers who couldn’t care less. One arm of the charity dealt with the preservation of wind and watermills and was trying to get the EA to address the issue of landowners allowing the leats of old watermills on their estates to become polluted causing environmental damage to wildlife, natural flora and fauna.
There’s danger everywhere, a beautiful stretch of beach on a bay near my home in Scotland was closed for years because of high radiation levels making it unsafe for the public. The Ministry of Defence had buried a load of instruments from WW2 aircraft there and it took years to make it safe.
Faslane in Scotland where the nuclear sub base has been stationed for years is another place where birth defects like babies being born without fingers and toes have occurred. The locals there have been trying to highlight this for years but nobody seems to listen.
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