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No real surprise here, Monsanto’s an old hand
at corporate genocide and it’s taking place across the world right now.
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As details emerge about the Texas fertilizer
plant that was the site of Wednesday’s fatal explosion and fire, a few tidbits
can be gleaned from a 2007 lawsuit that the plant’s owners filed against
agribusiness giant Monsanto Co. MON -1.61%
The suit, filed as a potential class action in
U.S. District Court for the western district of Texas, claimed that Monsanto
had artificially inflated prices for its herbicide Roundup through
anti-competitive actions. The suit did not relate to storing fertilizer,
believed to be at the root of Wednesday’s blast.
The suit was filed by Texas Grain Storage Inc.
The company now calls itself West Fertilizer Co.
In the suit, the company said that it was
started in 1957 as a grain-storage business by the Plasek family in the town
of West, Texas. It later built a small fertilizer-blend plant and started
selling fertilizer to area farmers.
Zak Covar, executive director of the Texas
Commission on Environmental Quality, told a news conference Wednesday that
the fertilizer storage and blending facility had been there since 1962.
In 1970 it started selling other agricultural
products, including some from Monsanto, and by 1997 it had struck a deal with
Monsanto to directly purchase Roundup each year.
A court filing in 2008 indicated that Texas
Grain Storage recently had been sold. Emil Plasek is listed as a former
owner.
Texas Grain Storage said it monitored the Roundup, stored in a stainless
steel tank, through a telephone connected to the tank, the company said.
http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2013/04/18/before-the-blast-west-fertilizers-monsanto-lawsuit/
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Fox.
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