Nick Ames
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3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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Football Weekly · USA fall asleep in Seattle and it’s tchau Ronaldo: World Cup Daily · 7 Jul 2026
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sky high rates of lung problems, heart problems, asthma, especially in children, all kinds of illnesses.
And it's been like this for many, many years.
And I mean, a lot of causal links can be made to leaks coming from the plants, which sometimes exceed what they're allowed to emit.
So I went there basically to talk to local residents and find out how life is there.
And the answer is, while there have been some improvements in recent years with compliance from the government,
From oil companies, it's still not very good.
It was a very bleak place to go to, honestly.
It was once thriving.
You once had a bustling downtown with all kinds of famous acts like Aretha Franklin, people like that, playing there in years gone by.
Now the place was a shell.
It was desolate, empty plots and buildings.
A pretty poor community that was sucking houses that were right along the fence line behind the refineries.
Where their property value was so low that you couldn't really or didn't really want to sell your house.
Unemployment very high, people not really being given jobs by the oil companies, etc, etc.
And it all came together to sell.
Just paint a picture of what is happening in this town a couple of hours from where the World Cup has been going on and where a major player in the tournament, a really major player, is heavily involved, even through a subsidiary.
So I would say if you have five or ten minutes, please do read the piece because it's got a lot of testimonies really from people
from local people that put it far better than I ever could.
And you'll get a bit of an idea of the kind of deal that FIFA makes in order to, in its eyes and some people's eyes, further the cause of football and to fund its activity.
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