The #MauritiusOilSpill Newsletter

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November 2020

A bird sanctuary is at risk
From the Wakashio oil spill. We'll explain.
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Ariel Saramandi
Dead dolphins: Government refuses to make scientific report public
Traces of oil found in some dolphins but minister rules out oil spill as cause of mass stranding
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Khalil A. Cassimally
Another oil spill, this time on land
More fresh hell
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Ariel Saramandi
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'Even if I don't see it, I can smell it.' How people are coping three months after the oil spill
'My heart will break in two. I will stay indoors.'
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Khalil A. Cassimally

October 2020

Is it even safe to swim?
Summer's here but we still don't know just how toxic our lagoons are.
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Ariel Saramandi
Two months since we started the newsletter – what do you think?
Tell us how we're doing and how we can improve.
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Khalil A. Cassimally
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The spill has reinvigorated social justice movements
It's time for a #MeToo reckoning.
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Ariel Saramandi
Make ecocide law and send the powerful to jail
The only way to stop the few from destroying our planet is to make them accountable to the many
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Khalil A. Cassimally
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The truth is one scientific test away
On autopsies, fingerprinting and more crime-scene mysteries
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Ariel Saramandi
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