Hungarian opposition DK: Samsung plant danger to nearby towns

A Greenpeace report shows that fetotoxic substances in the wastewater near the Samsung battery plant in Göd near Budapest also threaten nearby towns including Dunakeszi, the environment and climate affairs shadow minister of opposition Democratic Coalition said on Sunday.

Olivio Kocsis-Cake told an online press conference that toxic water had spilled onto arable land near the plant.

In line with a court ruling, the Samsung plant in Göd should have stopped operations a long time ago but “the Orbán government continues to protect the factory with an obvious lie”, he said. The DK politician said that the head of the Prime Minister’s Office attributed at a recent government briefing the factory’s continued operations to postal delivery problems.

DK demands that the government should immediately put a halt to the construction of new battery plants and calls for an investigation by independent experts of the operation of existing plants, he said.