Poisoned Paradise
The other night, watching a program that us ually deals with sup ernatural themes ( I like a good ghost story), they brought up this story. I don't rememb er hearing about it when it happened, but it made me think about how sin gular Spain and Spanish industry are. Or were, if we're lucky. I have been to the Pyrenees and they have awed me . Every green corner and rolling stream look like man has never touched it. But down in their foothills, in the province of Huesca, near Jaca, the town of Sabiñ án igo is invisib ly ill. Man has imposed himself with his poisons on this land. This is where the chemical company, Inquinosa, spewed its poi son for almost t wenty years. In 1975 the company set up a factory to make lindane. This is an organochlorin e that was first synthesi zed in 1825 by Michael Faraday, pionee r in ele ctrochemistry and electromagnetism. However, it wasn't until 1942 that it began to be used as a pestici de. It has been used to treat almost eve rything...