Why was there any need for clandestine dumping of material that wasn’t regarded as particularly harmful at the time? TCE was used as a general anaesthetic and as an analgesic during childbirth. Why would anyone go to the trouble and expense of illegal dumping?
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A particular dislike of pregnant women? One rather sees their point at the moment.
But no, you are right, it is a steaming pile of horsefeathers and unedited, unsupervised, unscrutinised, unutterable (except they do stumble through the utterance) tosh. Bah. Gah. And that sort of unarticulated unapproving noise unsilence
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Along with the invented money worries two years after Brian bought Home Farm, one year after his marriage to Jennifer, and just before he embarked on building a solar-heated swimming-pool in the garden.
How much would he have been paid for a small amount of dumping to fill in a pond? A few hundreds tops; not as much as the builders would have had to pay the council, or they wouldn’t have gone to Brian in the first place.
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'Ow much to bury a steaming pile of horsefeathers? Asking for the new editor a friend.
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Landfill tax was only introduced in 1996. Before that dumping in commercial landfill wasn’t expensive. There would have been no reason to do a deal with Brian. It’s madness, utter madness 
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I didn’t know that detail. Thanks, Marjorie! May I use it at need?
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Feel free!
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