"We fired the contractor," the representative of the Formosa Ha Tinh Steel told Reuters. Vietnamese state media also reported that people in Thien Cam, about 60 km away from the Formosa steel plant to the north, suspect waste in a landfill there came from Formosa as well. Ha Tinh's environment department has taken waste samples to test, according to local media reports. Formosa later pledged $500 million in damages and admitted its $10.6 billion steel plant had caused massive fish deaths along a 200-km (124-mile) stretch of coastline in April. The probe puts Formosa Ha Tinh Steel under the spotlight yet again - this time for waste dumped inland in the province where earlier this year the firm released toxic waste into the sea and caused massive fish deaths in one of the biggest environmental disasters to ever hit Vietnam.

Source: Thanhnien News July 15, 2016 11:26 UTC