{"id":33460,"date":"2017-06-17T11:28:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T11:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=33460"},"modified":"2017-06-18T07:52:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T07:52:36","slug":"camelford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/06\/camelford\/","title":{"rendered":"Camelford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JULY 1988<\/p>\n<p>JOhn Stevens was a tanker<br \/>\ndriver<br \/>\nWho went to bodmin Moor<br \/>\nTo the Lower Moor Water Treatment Works<br \/>\nIt was unmanned and whats more<br \/>\nHe actually had never been there<br \/>\nAnd the Tory Party were<br \/>\nPreparing to privatise water<br \/>\nwhich is why it  did occur<\/p>\n<p>Where he should unload his tanker<br \/>\nSo lackadaisically<br \/>\nHe loaded lt into the water supply<br \/>\n20 tonnes ran free<br \/>\nAluminium Sulphate<br \/>\nThe reaction was what we saw<br \/>\nA concentration 3000 times admissable level<br \/>\nAnd more<br \/>\nThat produced sulphuric acid<br \/>\nKilling 60,000 trout<br \/>\nAnd salmon in the Camel and Allen rivers<br \/>\nBut there seemed to be some doubt<\/p>\n<p>The Board told all the people<br \/>\nIts ok you can drink<br \/>\nCover the taste with orange juice<br \/>\nForget the unpleasant link<br \/>\nThere has been no monitoring system in place<br \/>\nAnd many souls have died<br \/>\nIt was Britains worse ever poisoning case<br \/>\nWhich governments have denied<\/p>\n<p>The criminality was the lack of montoring<br \/>\nThose who<br \/>\nFell victim to the toxicity<br \/>\nAnd died, for it was true<br \/>\nThose tested found their brains<br \/>\nWere loaded with aluminium and they<br \/>\nGot  alzeimers symptoms before they passed away<br \/>\nThe arrogance of the Tories reducing staff<br \/>\nWas wrong<br \/>\nAnd who knows how many innocent souls<br \/>\nSuffered all along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JULY 1988 JOhn Stevens was a tanker driver Who went to bodmin Moor To the Lower Moor Water Treatment Works It was unmanned and whats more He actually had never been there And the Tory Party were Preparing to privatise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/06\/camelford\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,24,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-environmental-poems","category-water-and-chemicalisation-of-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33460"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33467,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33460\/revisions\/33467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}