Collective Action
Nabatieh residents decry local landfill after reopening
A standoff between an activist and a bulldozer opening the road to a dump ended in insults and a complaint filed with Nabatieh police Friday. Residents of Nabatieh Fawqa had woken up Friday to a bulldozer reopening a road that some residents had closed weeks ago because of its proximity to a controversial dump.
The road leads to private properties, some of which local residents use for agriculture. Activists in the area had demanded the closure of the site in view of the environmental damage and health problems they said it had caused by polluting nearby groundwater used by the town.
Activists protested the bulldozer’s work Friday. One local attempted to stand in front of the bulldozer, which led to an exchange of insults. The driver of the bulldozer filed a complaint against the activist to the Nabatieh police station.