Cartography of Darkness

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Sea

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Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

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Container Port

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Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

Container of toxic waste at the port of Beirut.

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Barrel Port

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Field Work Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

A tractor shovel moving piles of toxic waste barrels.

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Smoke

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Fire Landscape

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Contact Sheet Photograph

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Album

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Pierre Malychef

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Sea

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Landscape

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Pierre Malychef

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

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Residential Toxic Waste

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Land Reclamation

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Pierre Malychef

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Field Research Landfill Portrait Waste

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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

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Smoke

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Fire Medicine Waste

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Waste

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Toxic Waste

Author

Pierre Malychef

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Barrel Container Residential

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Field Research Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

Inspection of containers containing barrels of toxic waste, kept in a parking lot near the highway in Antelias amidst residential and commercial buildings.

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Barrel

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Field Research Portrait Toxic Waste

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Cable

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Electricity Energy

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Atmospheric Pollution

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Portrait

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Toxic Waste

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Portrait Quarry Residential Toxic Waste

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Construction Site Powerplant

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Electricity Energy

"City soundscape (sea)".

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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

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Smoke

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Quarry Residential

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PDF

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Container

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Field Research Portrait Toxic Waste

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Smoke

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Landscape

Author

Pierre Malychef

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Document Minutes of Meeting

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Powerplant

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Atmospheric Pollution Energy

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Barrel Container

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Quarry Toxic Waste

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Construction Site Powerplant

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Discharge Electricity Energy

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Field Research Portrait

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Construction Site Powerplant

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Electricity Energy

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Land Reclamation

Author

Pierre Malychef

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Ammonium Nitrate Marine Pollution Military War Weapon

Author

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/ The photograph shows workers in a destitute hangar with a pressure-torn roof post-explosion. Similarly to Hangar 12, the hangar is filled with white sacks, akin to the ammonium nitrate sacks we all became familiar with in the last 3 years. A huge number of the sacks in the upper left part of the image are molten, due to the heat of the explosion.

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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

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Cistern Construction Site Powerplant

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Electricity Energy Fuel

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Ammonium Nitrate Ammonium Sulfate Damage Ecology Energy Explosion Military War

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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. A destitute hangar with a pressure-torn roof post-explosion. We see 5 frontal sacks with the same “Ammonium Sulfate, BASF, made in Germany” mark as in another image with a close up portrait view of one of the sacks, dfound in the same album. Similarly to Hangar 12, the hangar is filled with white sacks, akin to the ammonium nitrate sacks we all became familiar with in the last 3 years. For more information on the explosion, please go to: https://dark.society.systems/contribution/a-history-of-ammonia/

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Barrel Container

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Toxic Waste

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Quarry

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Field Research Portrait Quarry Toxic Waste

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Residential

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Landscape Quarry

Author

Pierre Malychef

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Barrel Port

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Toxic Waste

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Construction Site Powerplant

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Album

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Electricity Energy

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Quarry

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Quarry Toxic Waste

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Toxic Waste

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Animal Vegetation

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Author

Pierre Malychef

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Water

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Water

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Quarry

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Vegetation

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Author

Pierre Malychef

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Conference

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Smoke

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Album

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Landscape

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Quarry

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Water

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Pharmacy Portrait

Author

Pierre Malychef

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Construction Site Powerplant

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Album

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Discharge Electricity Energy

Author

Pierre Malychef

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Photograph

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Smoke

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Agriculture Atmospheric Pollution Electricity Energy Resort

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Media

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Conference

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Residential Smoke

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Landscape Quarry

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Pierre Malychef

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Ammonium Nitrate Energy Environment Explosion Military War Weapon

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Pierre Malychef

Image of a 50 KG sack of Ammonium Nitrate taken and developed by Dr. Pierre Malychef at the Dora Port, on March 30th 1989. For more information on the explosion, please go to: https://dark.society.systems/contribution/a-history-of-ammonia/

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Quarry

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Certificate Photograph

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United Nations

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Folder

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Environment

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Vegetation

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Author

Pierre Malychef

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Quarry

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Power Station

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Album

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Damage Electricity Energy

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Album

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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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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

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Container

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Toxic Waste

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Analytical Report Document

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Powerplant

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Folder

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Atmospheric Pollution Electricity Energy

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PDF

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Field Research Landfill Portrait Waste

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Toxic Waste

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Barrel Port

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Toxic Waste

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Field Research Toxic Waste

Inspection and media coverage of toxic waste found in ʿOyūn el-Sīmān.

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Public Health Symptom(s) Toxic Waste

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Audio Field Recording

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Omar Itani

"Generator (nabaa gas station)".

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Sea

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Portrait

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Animal

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Laboratory Toxic Waste

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Note(s) Photograph

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Station

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Water

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Pierre Malychef

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Symptom(s)

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Pierre Malychef

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Quarry

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Fire Smoke

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Album

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Landscape

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Field Research Portrait

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Field Research Portrait Sanitary Sewage

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Power Station

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Damage Electricity Energy

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Smoke

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Fire Medicine Waste

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Herbology Medicine Pharmacy

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Pierre Malychef

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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

Author

Pierre Malychef

Close-up of a barrel. 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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Cable Pharmacy Residential

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Electricity Energy

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Quarry

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Landscape

Author

Pierre Malychef

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Power Station

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Damage Electricity Energy

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Album

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Quarry Toxic Waste

Author

Pierre Malychef

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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

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Note(s) Photograph

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Portrait Quarry Residential Toxic Waste

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Highway Powerplant Residential Vehicle

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Album

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Electricity Energy Industry

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PDF

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Laboratory Portrait Toxic Waste

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Animal

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Toxic Waste

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Conference

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Residential

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Landscape Quarry

Author

Pierre Malychef

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Vegetation

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Author

Pierre Malychef

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Conference Portrait

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Power Station

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Album

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Electricity Energy Landscape

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Map Photograph Reference

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Waste

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Quarry

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Power Station

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Damage Electricity Energy

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Power Station

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Damage Electricity Energy Portrait

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Quarry Residential

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Field Research Portrait Quarry Toxic Waste

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Field Research Media Quarry Toxic Waste

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Quarry

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Note(s) Photograph

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Station

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Damage Water

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Pierre Malychef

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Barrel Container

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Toxic Waste

"CoD Generator1(processed web score)".

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Street

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Flood

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Album

Author

Pierre Malychef

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Quarry Waste

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Album

Author

Pierre Malychef

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Portrait Residential Toxic Waste

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Barrel

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Field Research Portrait Toxic Waste

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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.

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Container

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Residential Toxic Waste

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Highway Powerplant

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Electricity Energy Fuel

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Field Work Landfill Waste

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Portrait

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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.

"02- غرفة الموتور".

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Powerplant Resort Smoke

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Agriculture Electricity Energy

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Construction Site Powerplant

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Electricity Energy

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Electric Pole

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Electricity Energy Public Works

Author

Pierre Malychef

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Analytical Report Document

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Folder

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Energy Fuel

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Article Document Newspaper

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Folder

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Energy Fuel

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Power Station

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Damage Electricity Energy

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Field Research Media Portrait Toxic Waste

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Quarry

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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

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Barrel

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Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

According to the label, the content of this 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 previous picture (probably of the back label) indicates that this barrel contains 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 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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Field Research Portrait Toxic Waste

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Quarry Toxic Waste

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Pierre Malychef

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Barrel Container Port

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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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Pierre Malychef

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Quarry Residential

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Powerplant Resort Smoke

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Agriculture Electricity Energy

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Power Station

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Electricity Energy

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Pierre Malychef

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Barrel

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Field Research Toxic Waste

Author

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.