Sludge Irony: One of the “revolving” advertisements attached to this article was selling European river cruises…for the well-healed, of course. I can hear the slogans now: “The Danube in Hungary is lovely…toxic and red, but flowing…this time of year. Take a cruise to the Black Sea before it becomes the Red Sea II.”

We’re fucked.

...the meadia can’t find an evil capitalist corporation…

Freudian slip?  ”...no sooner had she put on Medea’s gifts than a devouring
poison consumed her limbs as with fire…

Easy to be smug from 30k-feet, old boy, but a quick survey from the ground reports this - capitalist paradise 12, workers paradise 1:

September 21, 1921: Oppau explosion in Germany. Occurred when a tower silo storing 4,500 tonnes of a mixture of ammonium sulfate and ammonium nitrate fertilizer exploded at a BASF plant in Oppau, now part of Ludwigshafen, Germany, killing 500–600 people and injuring about 2,000 more.

1932-1968: The Minamata disaster was caused by the dumping of mercury compounds in Minamata Bay, Japan. The Chisso Corporation, a fertilizer and later petrochemical company, was found responsible for polluting the bay for 37 years. It is estimated that over 3,000 people suffered various deformities, severe mercury poisoning symptoms or death from what became known as Minamata disease.

April 16, 1947: Texas City Disaster, Texas. At 9:15 AM an explosion occurred aboard a docked ship named the Grandcamp. The explosion, and subsequent fires and explosions, is referred to as the worst industrial disaster in America. A minimum of 578 people lost their lives and another 3,500 were injured as the blast shattered windows from as far away as 25 mi (40 km). Large steel pieces were thrown more than a mile from the dock. The origin of the explosion was fire in the cargo on board the ship. Detonation of 3,200 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer aboard the Grandcamp led to further explosions and fires. The fertilizer shipment was to aid the struggling farmers of Europe recovering from World War II. Although this industrial disaster was one of the largest involving ammonium nitrate, many others have been reported including a recent one in North Korea.

1948: A chemical tank wagon explosion within the BASF’s Ludwigshafen, Germany site caused 207 fatalities.

June 1, 1974: Flixborough disaster, England. An explosion at a chemical plant near the village of Flixborough kills 28 people and seriously injures another 36.

July 10, 1976: Seveso disaster, in Seveso, Italy, in a small chemical manufacturing plant of ICMESA. Due to the release of dioxins into the atmosphere and throughout a large section of the Lombard Plain, 3,000 pets and farm animals died and, later, 70,000 animals were slaughtered to prevent dioxins from entering the food chain. In addition, 193 people in the affected areas suffered from chloracne and other symptoms. The disaster lead to the Seveso Directive, which was issued by the European Community and imposed much harsher industrial regulations.

December 3, 1984: The Bhopal disaster in India is the largest industrial disaster on record. A faulty tank containing poisonous methyl isocyanate leaked at a Union Carbide plant. About 20,000 people died and about 570,000 suffered bodily damage.[1] The disaster caused the region’s human and animal populations severe health problems to the present.

November 1, 1986: The Sandoz disaster in Schweizerhalle, Switzerland, releasing tons of toxic agrochemicals into the Rhine.

June 28, 1988: Auburn, Indiana, improper mixing of chemicals kills four workers at a local metal-plating plant in the worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history; a fifth victim died two days later.[2]

October 23, 1989: Phillips Disaster. Explosion and fire killed 23 and injured 314 in Pasadena, Texas. Registered 3.5 on the Richter scale.

probably the workers’ paradise is too embarrassed to fess up

September 21, 2001: Toulouse, France. An explosion at the AZF fertilizer factory killed 29 and injured 2,500. Extensive structural damage to nearby neighbourhoods.

October 4, 2010: Alumina plant accident. Ajka, Kolontár, Devecser and several other settlements, Hungary. The dam of Magyar Aluminium Zrt.‘s red mud reservoir broke and the escaping highly toxic and alkaline (~pH 13) sludge flooded several settlements. There were four victims including a little girl and hundreds of injuries (mostly chemical burns).

bigdog:

The reason it hasn’t gotten more coverage is because the meadia can’t find an evil capitalist corporation to pin it on.

I’m amazed this hasn’t received more news coverage. This is a potentially catastrophic ecological disater which has already claimed lives, and the pictures I have seen are incredibly shocking.
Just hope they manage to limit the damage.

Pat:

Only trying to point out that polluting knows no politics.

My bad captain suave, they need to schedule these ecological disasters to coincide with my daily routine.

After reading about the Hungarian governments corporate ecological and enviromental fuck up, especially after BP, I just want to cry. 

I am amazed at the inaction of earths nations to protect against the most prevalent terrorists out there, the unrestrained polluters of this planet.

Well, would you look at this. On the eve of the Republican Tea Party taking back Congress, even the formerly Blue Danube is turning Red, with sludge that is.

Rico:

It may have been “out there” as a general matter, but TD only posted it today.  Be patient.

As for blame, I think it was The Sludge Party.

Peace.

Come on truthdiggers!! This item has been out there for several days and NO comments!

Wassup? Can’t find any BP’s or Tea Parties to blame?

Any chance the source was some old factory built to “workers’ paradise” specs?