Success stories from a bastion of bio diversity st. Helena starts november 18th on d. W. Ah, hope we can close as i need a thump in the city for them. Hey, what do you think it is . Massive . I dont know whos i but theres lots of austin. They try oxide around here. Yeah. Are snacking . Wow. Ah, if the 7th avenue, this is the cemetery thing shes buried here. I believe her death was caused by all the arsenic and blood we have here day. Youll see a bay. I still asked myself why i was never allowed to see her medical records. But again, why is that . He was alone. I wasnt even allowed to take a picture of her if she lost her hair due to the chemotherapy and was completely bald later by a ship every time i wanted to take a photo of her. She said no mama, no. She didnt want to have her picture taken that way. Medical brumbalow on her final day, she said, come with me wait. I said to her later, darling medical. Very rarely she asked me if we dont. I said yes. And then ill be sleeping next to you. She put her head on my shoulder and drew her last breath. Did i miss . I looked it was, it was like when a baby says when alma for the 1st time in mamma, a medical smile, she breathed mamma. And at that moment i lost her. You will never forget that. Ready ringback ah ah no, some old, 14 years ago i began retracing the steps from my home town in swedens fat to my native country chile, and the desert town of our rica or earth installed adrica full cat said 2 places that have been connected my entire life wanted some unconnected by the mining company, alida, and well either mon, the had issue many people hear a sigs and thousands initially. They say its because of the wasted at their pocket and of all follow their some to the waste thats left over after we finished mining for gold. Back at home, after weve extracted the Precious Metals from the all good mama viewed a field, weve made this film on to tell that story for that visa. Awesome. Hm. Okay. Yeah. Ill add a yellow to this. Im yesterday today. Yes, that next me is now a lush. Happy mantle. My 1st question dear count, you feel about what your country sway jennifer has brought here. Okay. What do you mean the toxic waste . Cynthia i i think my countrys responsible guns. I would an should do something to help all of you as her uncle put it aside with her. Ah whom amy in the mid 19 eighties when chile was ruled by a military dictatorship, bullied and shipped nearly 20000 tons of toxic sludge to a rica in northern chile till erica. Ah. M. The nun hugo halted almosha neat, quicksilver oblique. This lodge contained high levels of arsenic luxury and lead she landscape all logged, promote t malone a corner for lead and paid that she lay in company promo, 1000000 euros to dispose of the toxic waste. But only a fraction of the sludge was processed in promised furnaces, rest them lively kunda box lumped. The rest was simply dumped into a pile on the outskirts of a rica and forgotten me. Order, scalable studded, except from alice until whos the modern day. And it stopped it forced us project in the years that followed by a densely populated neighbourhood emerged right next to it off was her again live only that ah, had him mom back han, bullied and is a pillar of society. You might say that it helped sustain and provide a living to my community. But what does bullied and have to say about how swedish mining ways ended up on the other side of the world upon does he that youd be at this afternoon . Youre simply not interested in a fair portrayal of this issue or as bleeding as a company was a must do, sir. Is bailey . Thats not true. We described bullied in as an Important Company that has done a lot for the community here than our big dental school. You know, plan on trying a connection between the people who work for bullied and to day and the situation and oscar gemini, of the. Okay, give me a 2nd. I dont think thats fair to the people who work for the company to day with her and that ought to be it that mozilla working on this film. I eventually came into contact with one of bullied and former directors rove the sped buried. Was one of those responsible for shipping the toxic sludge to a rica. Ah ha ha. We led us to wagner. He returned to over eager because he wanted to see with his own eyes the consequences of his decision. Ah, are you the music over there . Where it says k 15 . If you cool, glad i my children used to play there in about a kid on the where did you hear about the young man who died of the tumor in his head . He was also poisoned. Will do no one ever told him what was going on. The doctors in santiago didnt say anything because they said it would just affect the people here. Uneasy. G o, b, 10 year old children have to take these 3 months and the doctor see that theyre insulin resistant. I dont understand whats happening here. There are so many drugs in examination or you know what . I dont understand this one. The ellis ross is rove. He doesnt speak spanish. Aloud. I heard beth. Yes. Well metre, then . Yes, this, let me, i got she had to have surgery away because of the toxic waste extra nipples grew on her year after mamma. Thats why she had surgery did. If she got pregnant, all of these nipples would have produced milk. Thats why they had to be removed. I am at it, it isnt your fault. But i cant remember. No, i wouldnt say that. But i feel terribly sad about this bill and very, very angry. If id made a different decision, though, none of this material would ever have been sent here. No matter again. And when you know, when i go, when he came here to our account, when you eat, told me i came to my house. When we talked for quite a while, they all feel explain the deal to us. We have to tell them who am i remember that he was very emotionally affected after visiting the area and talking to the young people there the after that experience and i think that he said the bulletin has to address the damage done to the people there. For me, it was a question of justice, you know, and human rights. He did he again, when a go. So i went to my teeth. Yeah. Did i did it month, rodrigo, my sampler and i from from all rodrigo and i have known each other for 14 years. One of him he is from a rica and is an anthropologist. Madame somebody be true when i 1st met him, he had begun working with the people affected by the toxic waste from sweden. He dog. Today hes probably the person who knows the most about the waste scandal, lina rica in chile, both that she lay in state and promo that the company that received the ways were convicted in court. Some took him and a small group of victims received compensation for the damage they suffered in elite and their lot on the arbiter men bully them, but bullied and has never been taken to court. I thought a target had o laden has avoided commenting on the a rica case whenever possible. That a committee erica father they probably assumed the case has been forgotten about clump with welcome kimberly. Hey, you are now, but i, i, id like to speak to eva wooten. Yes. Hey, you wanna . My name is johan, either from carrot, law, firm in stock overflow. Understand that you believed in this legal representative . Yes. I mean, you can go on the, um, her, im calling because of the exports of toxic mining waste to the mid, 1980 chilling partition. I assume youre familiar with that. You thought you all to some of my thumb. Ive been looking into this case for a while. I it together with some colleagues from sweden, she lee and the u. S. And weve prepared a lawsuit her against bulletin about from missouri. Justice andersons are come boldly dont ah come sir, can said malformations bone and joint pain. The waste thats believed in ship to chile in the 1980. This is dale, causing serious harm to day for 3800 people from a Poor Community in the desert of northern chile have lost a claim against the swedish company. Mm. With this has to it feels good to see that there are people who are pursuing the matter in a way that we as filmmakers arent able to do it. Kenyatta if you dont tito from the court cases the result of 4 years of preparation which began after the release of a documentary film. As much as the report showed children played in the pile of toxic waste, which was full of arsenic lead, and mercury with the waste came from sweden and bullied. And none of this would have happened if the waste had stayed in sweden to study. Ah, we were struck by how symbolic al representative was of cases of this type. There are many, many situations like this around the world where typically multinational corporations based and developed countries do things overseas that they would never dream about doing in their own country. Ah lewis gordon lewis gordon is the founder of an american Non Profit Organization backed by private donors that provides Legal Support to environmental cases around the world. He and a team, a swedish lawyers watched our film yet he can. Why are we lee, suitably i wish for each one of whom believe between the outdoor it is very crucial for becoming a violin on savage to me. We have okay. Miss young. This was the case i dreamt told when i was in law school to represent the weak against the mighty step tried to let him push no kiss in air at sight. Its flattened out. Problem with the had a plot. This is you city o f, that bull the place where bullied into waste was kept until 1998. When she lane authorities instructed prom l to move the waste about a kilometer away. Lance can mean bought for 14 years before that. The sludge was located next to a residential area, volta islam, methodical nellikka. If you on all the people here say that by that time, toxic dust had spread across the entire area. Say that if they had on how to speed its your middle that a thank you for how to food problem still existed . Yes. Oh. Really from before we were talking about when the waste was moved in 1088 and when it arrived here in 1995, before the waste is still here. Its unbelievable when you watch your film. In fact, its hard to grasp how close the hoses actually are, who not, and nobody there knew anything in color, but nobody knew what it was or some loss of the wind blows from here, straight over there. What can diana say and nobody knew what it was like them back then . There wasnt even any walls when this will help later. Mommy, the kids we used to come here to play. Mommy, that was easy to get inside went up what he ended up, the children would play her. What were some of the things they would do specifically come, why the m a on people . They were piles where kids would play in the do, all of them in some of them build castles with the minds at thought on bon, some of jocilan is one of the many children who grew up in this neighbourhood. In the 1st time i met her, she was 10 years old, the home of t. O. I lived with her family when i was in a rica and the normal one on that. Yeah. Body with and this class at 10 oclock. So i watched her grow up on my visits to a rica and soon shew have a baby herself, scone child for bottom, where it is just a little over there. This is simply of the family 1st, because im pregnant. My baby is sharing my blood, or youre suffering from drama from that or, and arsenic, and as a me arsenic. As anything the now youre going to have a new member of the family. I only wish that the baby is born healthy in. Wow. If i figured that i had a film with 3 out of city, i knew that 8000 people and all were tested and 2010 out of 8000 samples or 6600 were examined by lab and santiago means and arsenic was confirmed. Some of this will, so in the 6600. 00 samples that are arsenic poisoning was confirmed and 12. 9 percent of them which is approximately 8 on the 1st. Cpp. Yes is by 800 the follow the people who are already part of the lawsuit as i just said minority of the local residence, 825 people out of a group of 15000 or 18000 different persona. A possible to join a new group of clemons. We can add people who have suffered harm, even though the case is already before the court. In sweden. If you have arsenic levels of 30 or more, you can join the lawsuit. The whole idea with this is a court case we might win or we might lose just like in any lawsuit. Okay. Oh thank you to think of how many thousands of tons of toxic waste with doors here. It was contaminated with whole teen different heavy metals. We presented the case dont belinda wound up or dealing with a huge company. It has a great deal of power in europe over the next level. Celia they the mainland given the opportunity to super legion in a Swedish Court. Thats already a success even without knowing what will come of it and guided me now. Oh i lost your lars. Youre responsible for launching the biggest lawsuit weve ever had here. So era really . Very Common Health and home garage. Huh. Thank you. So this is our home for 8 weeks. Well public office, each guy. Yeah. Can you watch out, dan polluters from f. Were coming for you . Ah, it all been all. Dont start robin aldens tom. Im a lawyer representing bulletin in this case of over and i wont be the we know fairly well what theyll say. Weve been exchanging arguments for several years now. Its been a long journey job. My name is lucille sydney, head of communications of Belinda Boley them. So boldly the hard so bullied and has done nothing wrong here of it. So these are so be our standpoint, is that we have a responsibility to clarify what happened, support the cleans with fatness in the fact that everything is on the table. Oh, it is an emotional chase is an important case for many people including gleaton ball. So we have to get to the bottom of this would almost be what it and get closer to the truth lovable would necessarily be the most spectacular truth from it. It should be that they did not the full truth. There are some oliver older than it must have been left thus far less at a fresh trace. Its lock the case is the 1st of its kind in sweden. Both sides have submitted thousands of pages documenting the various investigations a show and the evidence take these denise thing. Mm aah. Sees it for the hearing will begin in case t 10. 12 flash 13 between the adrica plaintiffs and bullied and mineral ab long board. Us even both sides have brought in witnesses and scientists from all over the world explorer experts on chile and law, meteorologists, toxicologist, as soil experts at chemists, semi metallic. Jessica politicians and former employees and directors were schafer under meaning. 7 holden, utter cassie, them hotel, exempt, and expended. Plaintiffs from america will present experts who will support the claim, that toxic levels of arsenic were found in that urine operation, and that it originates from bullied and smell to sludge. All fun. I am a professor at Chapman University in california. And my expert opinion, the smelter sludge, is a clear and significant a source of arsenic in the area to discounted as a source of arsenic. It takes that tremendous stretch of imagination when i 1st heard from one of the lawyers that the bullet and waste had 17 percent arsenic. I didnt believe it. Ive never heard anything like that. A pile of waste that close to a city to with that high of arsenic concentration. In one woman, how do you tell your children that their father is going to die in . Let me last sunday thought of your thoughts. He was my reason for everything he wanted you to and they took him from me as i think would i believe this could have cathy a little better than darrows good of kevin finney. We have plaintiffs here as well. I got the 2011 study sure that there are high levels of arsenic here. Anyhow, ive been in the honeywell t like youre going to recover this woman who lived in the house with the bars of them. She sold the house and died of cancer. Donnie t. Conan lived next door. She had an aggressive cancer in her head and died to them. You for you. He died. Im e s as a. Yeah. And the wife of her son had a baby who died. But her son doesnt want to talk to anyone about it or hear anything about the contamination. And i used to be here for this. And another neighbor, marty subpoena had the stomach cancer. The woman who bought her house had a tumor on her face, put in the men across from her, also had cancer way. And then theres so many cases you, this seems like every one here and marty on madina. She had ovarian cancer, qualified by the time she died, the cancer had spread everywhere. Then theres mrs. Yaya, who also died of cancer. It started in her years and spread you can, and then theres mrs. Theresas husband, who also died of cancer. He had lung cancer and skin cancer gum from libyan and then mottos, father, we thought about it, no more. Melanie korea bigger. I guess. Whats the Health Situation like in other parts of attica, is he gets a home in the area near the disposal site is very striking. You know that we can in place not only compared to the rest of america in the me, but to all chill, little put him blood cancer. When we started our research in 25 a, we didnt find higher rates. I can start in, but the will have, but to day it are cases in almost every family that in the areas near the disposal site, the level to level rate of cancer is much, much higher than in the rest of kilo elephant to lynette and the grocer. Yolanda roberson santo lasagna, be a bill doll who hung up for listening to him was very interesting. He paints a picture of what he sees as the situation in the region to us. But as so often, i dont believe his account holds up as evidence. It could be that in 1998, when people became aware that a big pile of potentially Hazardous Materials were stored there and they began to see it as the cause for all sorts of things for you. It became an explanation for all sorts of things. Sca Pacific Gloria clogged ah offs on that. The still melon lady, a rica and bo laden are a world apart like 2 worlds that never meet the reality of what is happening on the other side of the world are you seems far, far away, long or less than im the lastest. Hey you, im me fall i you had to live in all my father worked the boy lead me and visited chili when the sledge was being sold on a dale to have. Im sure he died in 2008 other off, but often talked about how they, he and his bosses knew that the waste would not be handled properly in chile, the case haunted him for the rest of his life. Turned down to sleep. The boy that my father spent his entire working life and in his last years he was dragged into the fray. A little sledge hammer. Okay. To fun solid. Saddam somebody until you meet them all to toilet. So even in the mid 19 eighties, there were people who doubted that the slides would be handled safely and chilly on accordions, father, Martin Lindstrom, appears on rovers, fed, buried photo from a rica. Now you amanda, that a papa . Oh yes, thats my father. Definitely. Men body tense advocate that said at fido ladens, lawyers say that the company because of its visits to a rica who gray to precautions than they were required to. And that it was impossible to foresee that people would be exposed to the waste atman. This was gillis pinellas, ralph holland. Yes, you can jump i