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South Korean judges order companies responsible for fatal hydrogen explosion to pay billions of won in damages: reports
South Korean judges order companies responsible for fatal hydrogen explosion to pay billions of won in damages: reportsSubtitle:
Damages must be paid to 34 companies which suffered property damage in 2019 explosion, rules Supreme Court
South Korea’s Supreme Court has upheld a ruling ordering the companies responsible for a fatal 2019 hydrogen explosion to pay out up to 10 billion won ($6.8bn) to firms that suffered property damage in the blast, according to reports.
The Korea Economic Daily reported that the third civil division of the Supreme Court made the ruling today (Monday), dismissing appeals on previous rulings from both sides and effectively ending the case.
Five companies were reportedly deemed responsible for the explosion at an industrial park in the eastern city of Gangneung in May 2019, including two government-owned entities: research agency Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) and safety regulator Korea Gas Safety Corporation (KGS). It is not clear which are the remaining three companies implicated...
The Korea Economic Daily reported that the third civil division of the Supreme Court made the ruling today (Monday), dismissing appeals on previous rulings from both sides and effectively ending the case.
Five companies were reportedly deemed responsible for the explosion at an industrial park in the eastern city of Gangneung in May 2019, including two government-owned entities: research agency Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) and safety regulator Korea Gas Safety Corporation (KGS). It is not clear which are the remaining three companies implicated...
The hydrogen scam, being sold by the fossil fuel industry to greenwash their product is actually a trivial enterprise, as it has been for the last 50 years of endless bullshit about it. Nevertheless, despite being trivial, the horrible physical properties of the gas demonstrate just how awful it would be to have it as a consumer product. Not to worry: The fact that hydrogen wastes energy by destroying the exergy of fossil fuels from which it is made means that it will never be a consumer product.
Have a nice day tomorrow, and don't expect to see any hydrogen helicopters, hydrogen jet planes, hydrogen buses (duck!), hydrogen cars, hydrogen lawn mowers, hydrogen motor cycles, or hydrogen bicycles. Don't worry. Be happy. You won't. These expensive bourgeois toys are not a "trend" to a brave (or stupid) new world. Again, they're greenwashing advertising toys from the fossil fuel industry.