Greenpeace activists confront the tanker full of toxic sludge.
It reads a little bit like a John Grisham novel. An oil trading company at the heart of the city of London comes up with an innovative way to make massive profits by refining dirty gasoline. Only problem is, the process will produce a highly toxic sludge that is difficult to dispose of. Sure, they could pay an expensive fee to get it done in Rotterdam, but profits can be kept even higher by doing the dirty and dumping the caustic sludge in the city of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast, West Africa.
It's a plan designed to squeeze every last drop of money out of a dirty deal. But then the local population starts to suffer horrendous health effects, presumably from the toxic waste which has been dumped next to homes and workplaces. Whole areas of the city are evacuated, 15 people die, many more are permanently disfigured. People beseige health clinics demanding treatment.
