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 Chemical spills and accidents range from small to large and can occur anywhere. Chemicals are found, from oil drilling rigs to factories, tanker trucks to 55 gallon drums and all the way to the local dry cleaner or your garden tool shed.  The many years of dumping wre extremly costly to the Minamata town and Chisso Corporation. Chisso lost money in the refrain from using of their products, in damages to the victims, and in the overall stress to the company as a result of the mercury scandal. There is no known amount on exactly how muchmoney Chisso paid to the victims. The payments wa in the millions, and people are still fighting for money today. In addition, the people who were fishermen in Minamata suffered greatly since they had no source of profits when the waters were poisoned. Minamata was known as a fishing town, and the ocean was their main environmental resource. When the water became contaminated, they could no longer depend on this as a feasible resource, and had no other way to make a living.
 * WHAT MEASURES HAVE BEEN PUT IN PLACE TO STOP IT HAPPENING IN THE FUTURE? **

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To prevent chemical disasters in the Minamata district from occurring again in the future, the Chisso Corporation could relocate to an area which has not many people or other life forms such as plants, animals etc living there. Chemical accidents and spills can be devastating to humans, wildlife and the environment. The most appropriate method to reduce the harm caused by chemical accidents is to design plants with better safety and controls and that operate at lower temperatures and pressures, and to use and manufacture less toxic compounds, a field that ‘green’ chemists and engineers. But, until toxic chemicals are routinely replaced by less harmful substitutes, the emergency response procedures developed by environmental scientists and engineers help reduce the human health and ecological effects of chemical spills and disasters.

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