Environmental pollution
Drop One, Drop Them All
Tuesday, July 10, 2001
Hundreds of people passed out after inhaling gas emitted by a new oil well in Bojonegoro. Not used to it yet?
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What happens if a well breaks wind? Well (sorry!), in this case hundreds of people in three villages got wobbly, dizzy, nauseous, weak and finally collapsed.
It occurred in Bojonegoro, East Java, on Saturday two weeks ago, when oil company Santa Fe conducted its first oil well drilling. The hole being bored released hydrogen sulfide (H2S) gas. "It smelled like human excrement," said Frendi, a primary school student (grade III) of Campurejo
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