Friday, April 19, 2013

BEFORE THE BLAST, WEST FERTILIZER'S LAWSUIT WITH MONSANTO


BEFORE THE BLAST, WEST FERTILIZER'S LAWSUIT WITH MONSANTO
Posted By: The_Fox [Send E-Mail]
Date: Friday, 19-Apr-2013 04:36:26
 
No real surprise here, Monsanto's an old hand at corporate genocide and it's taking place across the world right now.
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As details emerge about the Texas fertilizer plant that was the site of Wednesday’s fatal explosion and fire, a few tidbits can be gleaned from a 2007 lawsuit that the plant’s owners filed against agribusiness giant Monsanto Co. MON -1.61%
The suit, filed as a potential class action in U.S. District Court for the western district of Texas, claimed that Monsanto had artificially inflated prices for its herbicide Roundup through anti-competitive actions. The suit did not relate to storing fertilizer, believed to be at the root of Wednesday’s blast.
The suit was filed by Texas Grain Storage Inc. The company now calls itself West Fertilizer Co.
In the suit, the company said that it was started in 1957 as a grain-storage business by the Plasek family in the town of West, Texas. It later built a small fertilizer-blend plant and started selling fertilizer to area farmers.
Zak Covar, executive director of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, told a news conference Wednesday that the fertilizer storage and blending facility had been there since 1962.
In 1970 it started selling other agricultural products, including some from Monsanto, and by 1997 it had struck a deal with Monsanto to directly purchase Roundup each year.
A court filing in 2008 indicated that Texas Grain Storage recently had been sold. Emil Plasek is listed as a former owner.
Texas Grain Storage said it monitored the Roundup, stored in a stainless steel tank, through a telephone connected to the tank, the company said.

http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2013/04/18/before-the-blast-west-fertilizers-monsanto-lawsuit/
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1 comment:

fedup said...

WEST TEXAS FERTILIZER MISSILE? BOMB? WTF?!?!?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=r2uFOUpIhzE

MUST SEE