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River disaster preventable, WWF tells mining industry.

M2 PRESSWIRE-24 February 2000-WWF: River disaster preventable, WWF tells mining industry (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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Brussels, Belgium -- WWF, the conservation organisation, will tell the mining industry and the European Commission at a meeting on mining and the environment tomorrow in Brussels that the spill of cyanide and other toxic waste into tributaries of the Danube in Romania and Hungary was predictable and preventable.

The meeting between the mining industry and the Commission takes place as experts assess the damage caused by the toxic spill in Romania and Hungary at the end of January. WWF will attend the meeting and point ...

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