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| | Toxic trash spews high levels of lead in Bulacan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | The same company in Marilao, Bulacan, according to a June 2003 Greenpeace report, had already been identified as early as 1996 as posing a danger to the environment and to the health of its workers and of the residents of the community where it is situated, because of its lead-smelting operations. |
 | | At the briefing, Jose Bartolome, a retired colonel and resident of Barrio Patubig in Marilao, Bulacan where PRI is situated, said residents in the community have long complained to the authorities about the pollution caused by the PRI operations, "but nothing has happened". |
 | | But according to Hernandez, former PRI workers, with the assistance of the Office of Legal Aid of the University of the Philippines, are preparing to file a case against the company. |
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