2006 Ivory Coast toxic waste dump from publishing the contents of the Minton report. Trafigura also threatened a number of other media organizations with legal action if they published the report's contents, including the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation and "The Chemical Engineer" magazine. On 12 October, Carter-Ruck warned "The Guardian" against mentioning the content of a parliamentary question that was due to be asked about the Minton Report. Instead the paper published an article stating that they were unable to report on an unspecified question and claiming that the situation appeared to "call into question privileges guaranteeing free speech established under the 1689 Bill of Rights". The
Vartiokylä dumping ground waste to the dumping ground, provided that it first neutralized the sulphuric acid waste with calcium oxide. The city urged its public works department to guard the dumping ground more effectively — earlier it was not guarded at all, as was usual at the time — and to immediately take measures so that the hazards posed by the toxic waste already at the site could be minimised. In the summer of 1962 the Vartiokylä dumping ground was closed, but not because of its environmental impact. The official story was that the place was full and could not accommodate further waste