Cartography of Darkness

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Construction Site Powerplant

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Electricity Energy

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Symptom(s) Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

Documentation of symptoms resulting from exposure to toxic waste.

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Energy Fuel

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Beach Power Station

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Electricity Energy

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Pierre Malychef

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Conference

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Barrel

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Residential Toxic Waste

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Container Port Ship

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Toxic Waste

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Environment

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Quarry

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Powerplant Smoke

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Highway Powerplant Smoke Vehicle

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Toxic Waste

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Field Research Water

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Portrait

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Residential Smoke

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Landscape Quarry

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Pierre Malychef

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Land Reclamation

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Pierre Malychef

Land reclamation project in Dbayeh under development. Currently known as Waterfront City Dbayeh.

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Cistern explosion Port Sea Smoke

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Ammonium Nitrate Atmospheric Atmospheric Pollution Damage Discharge Ecology Energy Environment Military Pollution Toxic Water

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Pierre Malychef

Image from the same roll of film taken and developed by Dr. Pierre Malychef showing molten oil tanks after they exploded on March 30th 1989 at the Dora Port. Smoke is still fuming and a murky water fills the ashen ground of the port. For more information on the explosion, please go to: https://dark.society.systems/contribution/a-history-of-ammonia/

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Smoke

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Agriculture Atmospheric Pollution Electricity Energy Resort

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Pierre Malychef

Image taken by Dr. Pierre Malychef documenting the 1989 Dora Port Explosion and its aftermaths on March 30th 1989. For more information on the explosion, please go to: https://dark.society.systems/contribution/a-history-of-ammonia/

آلاء القيسي Alaa Alqaisi

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explosion Fire Power Station Powerplant Smoke

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Atmospheric Pollution Energy Environment Explosion

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Online users

ليلة ١٧ آب ٢٠٢١: فيديو للحريق الذي اندلع في محطة تحويل كهرباء لبنان في قصقص بعد أن سمع دوي انفجار في المنطقة قد يكون ناجماً عن انفجار المحوّل الأساسي في الشركة

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Herbology Medicine Pharmacy

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Pierre Malychef

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Wastewater

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Toxic Waste

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Field Work Landfill Waste

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Barrel

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Field Research Toxic Waste

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Animal Vegetation

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Pierre Malychef

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Residential Smoke

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Landscape

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Residential Toxic Waste

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Station

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Damage Water

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Pierre Malychef

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Pierre Malychef

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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

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River

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Waste Water

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Pierre Malychef

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Energy Fuel

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Portrait Quarry Residential Toxic Waste

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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

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Highway Powerplant Vehicle

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Electricity Energy Industry

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Quarry Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

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Water

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Barrel Port

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Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

Toxic waste barrels in the port of Beirut.

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Barrel

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Field Research Quarry Toxic Waste

Amnesia Scanner, live at MUTEK Mexico

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Field Work Landfill Waste

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Pierre Malychef

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Field Research Portrait

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Port Ship

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Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

The ship Yvonne A docked at the fifth basin of the port of Beirut to be loaded with toxic waste barrels from the fake recuperation of Summer 1988. The ship, one out of four sent by the Italian embassy, was sunk before it reached Italy.

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Land Reclamation

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Pierre Malychef

Land reclamation project in Dbayeh under development. Currently known as Waterfront City Dbayeh.

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Barrel

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Field Research Residential Toxic Waste

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Pharmacy Portrait

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Pierre Malychef

"01- بلا كهربا".

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Heritage

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Pierre Malychef

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Toxic Waste

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Quarry

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Field Research Toxic Waste

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Construction Site Powerplant

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Barrel

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Powerplant Resort Vehicle

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Agriculture Electricity Energy

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Power Station

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"City soundscape (sea) 2".

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Field Research Portrait Toxic Waste

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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

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Ammonium Nitrate Quarry

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Power Station

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Damage Electricity Energy Portrait

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Conference

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Landscape

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Pierre Malychef

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Landfill Marine Pollution Waste

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Quarry

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Power Station Smoke

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Electricity Energy Landscape

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Toxic Waste

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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

Two cans of paint and coating, produced by the Italian chemical company, Industrie Vernici Italiane ("Italian Paint Industry") stylized as I.V.I, that specialized in the production of paints. Starting 1983, I.V.I, then-majoritarily owned by Fiat, was gradually sold to the American multinational company, PPG Industries Inc. The selling of the entire shares was effectuated in 1992. Following a lawsuit filed by American environmental organizations, Penn Environment and Sierra Club, in 2012, PPG Industries, Inc. was found liable in 2018 for decades of pollutants discharge in the Allegheny River. Read more on: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/usa-court-finds-paint-manufacturer-ppg-liable-for-pollution-posing-risk-to-health-environment-in-lawsuit-over-chemicals-spill/. These cans ended up on Lebanese territories due the toxic waste deal between the Italian Mafia and the Lebanese Forces. The author of this image is unspecified.

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Port Ship

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Toxic Waste

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Barrel Container

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Field Research Residential Toxic Waste

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Smoke

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Quarry

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Vegetation

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Pierre Malychef

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Field Research Portrait Quarry Toxic Waste

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Station

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Water

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Pierre Malychef

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Powerplant Resort Vehicle

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Agriculture Electricity Energy

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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

Blue gallons containing residual products from chemical industries as indicated by their label that also reads in Spanish "M.L.S.A. via Puerto Cabello", a town in Venezuela. We couldn’t find more information around the sources, and whether they were related to the Italian toxic waste trade brought to Lebanon through a deal between the Italian mafia and Lebanese Forces. The image was taken by Pierre Malychef in the late 1980s.

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Barrel

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Field Research Portrait Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

Inspection of toxic waste barrel.

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Pharmacy Public Works Water

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Land Reclamation

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Pierre Malychef

Land reclamation project in Dbayeh under development. Currently known as Waterfront City Dbayeh.

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Construction Site Powerplant

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Discharge Electricity Energy

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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

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Diagram Document

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Atmospheric Pollution

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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

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Laboratory Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

Wilson Rizk testing samples of toxic waste in the lab.

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Pierre Malychef

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Pierre Malychef

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Field Research Portrait Toxic Waste

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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

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Highway

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Quarry

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Pierre Malychef

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Sanitary Sewage

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Pierre Malychef

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Pierre Malychef

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Construction Site Powerplant

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Electricity Energy

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Public Works Water

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Pierre Malychef

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Field Research Portrait Toxic Waste

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Residential

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Pierre Malychef

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Barrel

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Pierre Malychef

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Vegetation

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Pierre Malychef

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Pierre Malychef

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Cistern Construction Site Powerplant

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Environment Field Research Militia Portrait

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Pierre Malychef

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Containers of toxic waste barrels kept on an empty plot of land in Antelias, close to the highway and amidst residential and commercial buildings.

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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

According to the label, this barrel contained diphenylmethane-4,4'-diisocyanate (MDI), a light yellow-colored solid. It is not soluble in water. It may be toxic by ingestion, inhalation, or skin absorption; acute (short-term) inhalation of high concentrations of MDI may cause sensitization and asthma in humans. If in a solution it may or may not burn depending on the nature of the material and/or the solvent. It is used to produce polyurethane foams. The next picture (probably of the front label) indicates that the content of the barrel is related to polyurethanes, produced by the British chemical company, Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). The barrel may be related to the toxic waste deal between the Italian mafia and the Lebanese Forces through its Italian division, Atlas Europol s.p.A. From 1982 till 1987, the chairman of the company was Sir John Harvey-Jones, a British naval commander during World War II and a naval intelligence specialist post-World War II, whose approach to the chemical business was focused on speed, more power into fewer hands, and high profit. The barrel is rusted and has seashells growing on it, signs that it was submerged in seawater for a certain period of time. The image was taken by Pierre Malychef in the late 1980s.

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Residential

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Pierre Malychef

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Quarry Residential

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Document Report

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Environment

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Barrel

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Field Research Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

Barrels containing toxic waste fall on the side of the road in Maameltein area while being transported to the port of Beirut, spilling their contents.

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Residential Toxic Waste

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Animal Port

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Construction Site Powerplant

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Field Research Portrait Residential Toxic Waste

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Hospital Portrait Public Health Symptom(s) Toxic Waste

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Power Station

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Pierre Malychef

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Conference

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Sea

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Pierre Malychef

People fishing on the coast of Zouk Mosbeh, near the Zouk Thermal Power Plant.

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Powerplant Smoke

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Agriculture Electricity Energy Residential Resort

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Wastewater

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Quarry Toxic Waste

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Quarry Waste

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Power Station

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Waste

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Pylon

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Pierre Malychef

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Residential Smoke

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Pierre Malychef

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Subordinate militia men managing an illegal quarry whose environmental impacts Pierre Malychef has been investigating and publishing against, planted a bomb in the mid-1980s in his first pharmacy in Jal el Dib. The bomb was luckily detonated in Maychef's absence. This image shows Malychef standing in front of the collateral damage.

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Toxic Waste

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Power Station Residential Smoke

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Powerplant Smoke

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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

The lid of a barrel with two duct tapes running over it labeled "RORER ITALIANA S.p.A." with the logo of RORER. The latter focuses on the production of organic fine chemistry, pharmaceuticals, machines, and macromolecular chemistry and polymers. The last patent published by the company was on April 2, 1987. Read more on: https://goodip.io/iq/assignee/rorer-italiana-spa#patents. This lid ended up on Lebanese territories due the toxic waste deal between the Italian Mafia and the Lebanese Forces. This image was taken by Pierre Malychef in the late 1980s.