the toxic truth - Greenpeace

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ANNEX NotEs
32. “We then went to the Banco station
laundry on the motorway on the way to
Youpougon. … Near a mango close to
the motorway at the Youpougon banco
station, we pumped water into each compartment
of the tank and we poured a
mixture of gresyl, Omo and oil into each
of the compartments. Then we shut the
compartments and went to Maca with
this mixture sloshing around. We dumped
the contents on the edge of the road
after the police checkpoint in the Banco
Forest before going back to Abobo. (Deposition
de XXX to Trafigura, 11 February,
2009, English translation).
33. “We went to a car wash in Abobo but
they wouldn’t let me clean my truck. We
then went to a second car wash on the
same road known as “Gros Trou. … In
order to tackle the smell, we use red
palm oil by soaking a rag in oil to wipe
the walls of the tanker compartment.”
(Deposition de XXX to Trafigura, 11 February,
2009, English translation).
34. “Officially, the capacity of my tank is
37,000 litres but, when I was loading
for the second time, I exceeded that
capacity and filled it with more than
38,000 litres. My tanker was so full that
there was a risk of spillage in the bends
and that is probably why (the smell of
the liquid) the police has pulled us over.”
(Deposition de XXX to Trafigura, 11 February,
2009, English translation).
35. “Loading took 35 to 40 minutes and,
just as I came off the quay, I talked to
XXX and asked him if I should return to
Akouédo. XXX said: wait, there are some
problems in Akouédo at the moment. ...
Later, XXX arrived at the Shell car park
to tell the truck drivers who were still
waiting that, now that the problems in
Akouédo had been dealt with, they are
looking for other sites and he suggested
that Djibi was a good place for
unloading the merchandise.” … “I didn’t
see anybody when I was unloading in
Djibi. I reversed onto an area near to the
abbatoir. I did not use a hose to empty
the tank; I simply opened the hatched.
The liquid poured out onto the ground
on the right because I had reversed onto
the grass so that the cab faced the road
at the top of the hill. Some cars did pass
but nobody stopped.” (Deposition de XXX
to Trafigura, 11 February, 2009, English
translation).
36. “I managed to fill up the tank only half
way, in other words between 10,000 and
15,000 litres. At that point, the liquid
was very heavy, almost like liquid mud. It
was a sort of thick and reddish mud.”...
“XXX told me to go to an old factory
near the Guichet Unique, a location near
to the Gestoci Terminal. XXX and XXX
went ahead and we entered the grounds
of the abandoned factory, where there
was a large drain right at the back. At
the Guichet Unique, I emptied my tank
into the manhole simply by opening the
hatches.” (Deposition de XXX to Trafigura,
11 February, 2009, English translation).
37. “I then went back to Abobo and I parked
my truck near Coco Service near to
the gully. I went home that night and I
returned to my truck to clean it about
9 a.m. the following day. Near the gully
at Abobo Coco Service, there is a place
where people can clean their trucks
called Lavage Coco Service.” (Deposition
de XXX to Trafigura, 11 February, 2009,
English translation).
38. “Quand je suis retourné à Koweit ce
matin-là, il y a plus de gens qui étaient
venus que la nuit passée, don’t les
kuchamen et des employés de garages,
mais pas XXX. Je leur ai it qui je devais
décharger car j’avais besoin de mon
camion pour un autre travail. Quelques
temps après, nou avons alors ouvert une
vanne au fond de la citerne et certains
d’entre eux ont prélevé des échantillons.
Certains ont dit qu’ils pourraient
uitilser le produit, d’autres pas. J’ai alors
déversé environ 30.000 litres dans deux
conteneurs cylindriques avec l’aide d’un
homme dans un camion rouge qui avait
une motopompe. ... Il a fallu plus d’une
heure pour transférer le contenu de ma
citerne dans les deux conteneurs cylindriques.”
(Deposition de XXX to Trafigura,
11 February, 2009).
39. “J’ai charge mes cuves mais seulement
aux deux tiers environ car je savais que
je devais simplement me debarrasser
de ce chargement de dechets pour XXX.
… Après le chargement, je suis revenue
sur le Parking Shell et j’ai continue a attendre.
... XXX ne m’appelé que plus tard
dans l’après-midi pour me dire que je
devais apporter mon chargement au parking
de l’ancienne usine près du Guichet
Unique, ou il m’attendrait.” (Deposition
de XXX to Trafigura, 11 February, 2009).
40. “J’ai ensuite conduit la camion jusqu’à
à la station Banco de Youpougon où les
femmes lavent leurs vetements. Nous
avons verse du crésyl dans chaque cuve,
et avec la pompe que j’avais pris la nuit
précédente au Garage UTD, nous avons
pompé de l’eau dans chacune des cuves.
Nous nous sommes ensuite dirigés
vers la Maca pour les vider du fait qu’il
ya peu d’habitations le long de la route
et que, juste en bordure, d’épaisses
broussailles s’étendent sur plusieurs
kilometers. En cours de route, j’ai cependant
été arête à un poste de controle du
CECOS.” (Deposition de XXX to Trafigura,
11 February, 2009).
“Paragraph 44 About one hour later, XXX
called me to tell me that everything had
been arranged. So I went back to where
the truck was parked near the Maca
checkpoint. I stayed near the truck but I
hid because I wanted to know what was
going on. It was while I was waiting that I
noticed that my tank had leaked and that
there was a pool of about 200 to 400
litres of product under the truck.
The last sentence should be as follows:
“It was while I was waiting that I noticed
that my tank had leaked and that
there was a pool of about one thousand
(1000) litres of product under the truck”.
Para 48 Reluctantly, the CECOS squad
let us go after long discussions with the
ministry representative. XXX and I got
back into the truck and drove for about 1
or 2 km before I stopped on the edge of
the road in the Banco Forest. There are
no houses in the vicinity and we were a
long way from the prison.
What is incorrect in this paragraph is the
statement that we dumped a long way
from the prison, because we dumped
close to the prison. The second and
third sentences should read as follows:
“XXX and I got into the truck and we went
about 800m before I stopped on the
edge of the road in the Banco Forest.
There are no houses in the vicinity and
it is not far from the prison.” There must
be a reason why Trafigura wanted to have
it stated that we were a long way from
the prison, but I don’t know what that
reason is. Trafigura may be trying to undermine
the arguments of the opposing
party. “ (Written statement by driver 4 to
Greenpeace from 27 April, 2010 (English
translation) referring to the alleged false
elements in his written statement to
Trafigura).
41. “Le Garage UTD est un vaste local et
XXX est sorti pour voir les reservoirs de
stockage vides qu’il pourrait utiliser. …
Nous avons commence à transférer le
chargement de ma citerne dans celle
de XXX avec la pompe mais elle est vite
tombée en panne d’essence pendant
le chargement de la troisième cuve. ...
Nous avons transferé tout le contenu de
ma citerne en environ deux heures. A la
fin, il faisait nuit et c’était juste avant les
premières priers.” (Deposition de XXX
to Trafigura, 11 February, 2009, English
translation).
42. “We took my truck again to go to the
Gros-trou car wash in Abobo. We dumped
the last 1000 litres or so of product in
a manhole at the car wash. The tanker
was then washed with bleach, water
and Omo to try to get rid of the smell.
XXX and the people doing the cleaning
got into the tanks to clean them but,
unfortunately, without the desired effect;
the smell persisted and we were forced
to go and negotiate with a painter to get
him to paint the entire truck; that costs
is CFA two hundred thousand (200,000).
Despite all these efforts, the smell persisted
and we parked at the car park late
at night. We left the truck where it was
for the disinfection team to tow away and
disinfect.” (Written statement by driver 4
to Greenpeace, 27 April, 2010, English
translation).
43. “Nous avons déversé environ 20.000 litres
des cuves mais nous en avons gardé
environ 11.000 litres et, au depart de
l’enceinte, nous avons appelé le kuchaman
qui nous a dit de nous rendre au
Garage … à Koumassi. A la longue, il est
arrive au Garage ... avec une motopompe