Ponca file suit against carbon black company(interesting stuff here)

[The Straight Story]

Ponca file suit against carbon black company

Posted: May 09, 2005
by: Brenda Norrell / Indian Country Today
WHITE EAGLE, Okla. - The Ponca Tribe and individual tribal members filed a federal class action lawsuit aimed at halting Continental Carbon Co. from spewing carbon black over Ponca land and tribal members and coating everything surrounding the factory in black soot.

The class action suit, filed in federal court in the Western District of Oklahoma on April 20, seeks a court order forcing Continental Carbon Co. to halt polluting the land and air. Further, it demands the company clean up the properties it continues to pollute and seeks damages for the Ponca Tribe and its people.

The federal complaint alleges trespass, private nuisance, public nuisance, failure to warn, personal injuries, negligence, medical monitoring, unjust enrichment and punitive damages.

The defendants are Continental Carbon Co.; China Synthetic Rubber Corp. and its domestic corporation, CSRC USA; and Taiwan Cement Corp. The parent company is a publicly traded corporation in Taiwan, which owns the Ponca City carbon black facility. CSRC is the fourth-largest producer of carbon black in the world.

http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096410886

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To me there are a lot of interesting things which surrond this article. Looks like the indians are getting screwed (yet again).