{"id":1194,"date":"2010-10-12T11:22:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T00:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2010-10-12T12:01:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T01:01:39","slug":"company-director-arrested-in-hungarys-toxic-sludge-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/nature\/company-director-arrested-in-hungarys-toxic-sludge-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Company director arrested in Hungary&#8217;s toxic sludge case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 605px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/toxicfrog.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"toxicfrog\" width=\"605\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/toxicfrog.jpg 605w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/toxicfrog-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/toxicfrog-119x74.jpg 119w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toxic frog&#8230; a small survivor struggles with the sludge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>The man at the head of the company responsible for Hungary&#8217;s worst environmental disaster has been arrested on suspicion of public endangerment and environmental damage.<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The arrest came as Hungary&#8217;s prime minister, Viktor Orban, <a href=\" http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/hungary\/8056476\/Hungarian-toxic-sludge-boss-arrested-over-environmental-disaster.html\" target=\"blank\">blamed human negligence<\/a> for the spill.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of litres of orange-coloured toxic sludge burst from a breech in the reservoir wall of a storage unit at the Hungarian Aluminium Production and Trade Company last week. Eight people were killed and more than 120 were injured as a result of the burst, while environmental groups say it could take years to clean up.<\/p>\n<p>As waste continues to seep across villages in the west of the country, scientists fear the entire reservoir wall <a href=\" http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,2024795,00.html\" target=\"blank\">could collapse<\/a>. Prime Minister Orban has called for the aluminium company to have its assets frozen and for it to come under state control to minimise future mismanagement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\" https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/nature\/video\/\" target=\"blank\">Video: Reservoir leak releases toxic sludge in Hungary<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\" http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/hungary\/8056476\/Hungarian-toxic-sludge-boss-arrested-over-environmental-disaster.html\" target=\"blank\">Telegraph<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man at the head of the company responsible for Hungary&#8217;s worst environmental disaster has been arrested on suspicion of public endangerment and environmental damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,6,36,8],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-nature","category-news","category-science","tag-rhiannon-elston"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}