Thursday, September 07, 2017

How did this happen? How did a very dangerous product find itself on nearly every continent in the world?

People should be jailed for such atrocities. This is just unconscionable. It is astounding this has occurred in countries that know better.

September 7, 2017
By Sue Williams

Potentially lethal aluminium composite panels (click here) which have been widely used on apartment buildings across Australia should be subject to an immediate total ban on their importation, sale and use, a Senate committee has recommended.
There should also be measures introduced to make designers, developers, suppliers and installers much more accountable for the highly flammable products – rather than making the owners of the apartments face possibly huge bills at the end of the chain to make their homes safe.
The committee reported on Wednesday evening after deliberations following fires that spread via the panels and enveloped the Grenfell Tower in London, killing over 80 people, that raced up the Lacrosse building in Melbourne and that have twice struck The Torch in Dubai....