TEPCO rejects ministry's demand to pay 10.5 billion yen for decontamination work

[homasse]

TEPCO rejects ministry's demand to pay 10.5 billion yen for decontamination work

Tokyo Electric Power Co. refuses to pay 10.55 billion yen ($106 million) for decontamination work around its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, saying it is under no legal obligation to do so.“We don’t know whether those costs are covered by the special measures

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[tabaqui]

Wow.
What is their justification, other than corp-rat bastards?

[homasse]

These are the same tools that, IIRC, tried to argue that they didn't have to pay for decontaminating areas because once the radiation left the plant, it no longer belonged to them, but to whoever owned the land it landed in, and that those people had to pay for decontaminating. They've been trying to pass the buck from the second this whole mess of their own making started.

[tabaqui]

Wow. WOW.

Why hasn't BP, et al, used that excuse? I shall now expect it daily.

Holy fuck.

[homasse]

It was just...


"Radioactive materials (such as cesium) that scattered and fell from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant belong to individual landowners there, not TEPCO," the utility said.

They said that. With a straight face.

[nitasee]

What, is Tepco an American company? Or owned by Carnival Cruise?

[yesthatnagia]

So what kind of sanctions or consequences is the Environment Ministry willing to pursue, I wonder. I seriously wouldn't blame them for trying to prosecute after this.

[alryssa]

Well.

Fuck Tepco.