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According to the analyses to date, “none of the inspected business entities had discharged pollutants above the regulatory limits” into the river, said Andrzej Szweda-Lewandowski, the government’s head of environmental protection.<\/p>\n

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The amount of industrial discharge had been “the same as in previous years”, he told reporters.<\/p>\n

Fishermen in Poland first started reporting dead fish in the Oder in late July and they began washing up in Germany a few days later.<\/p>\n

Poland’s government only reacted on August 12, sparking widespread criticism from both local Polish authorities and Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Polish authorities on Thursday said toxic algae was to blame for mass fish deaths in the Oder river, ruling out industrial pollution as the cause.   The conclusions presented at a press conference by scientists and government officials come from a preliminary report to be released Friday, weeks after the environmental disaster unfolded. The authors of the report said nearly 250 tonnes of dead fish were recovered from the Oder river that runs through Poland and Germany. Various factors “led us to conclude that the fish deaths were probably caused by the toxic effects of an algal bloom”, said Agnieszka […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567,562],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","category-yeswecantv-news"],"yoast_head":"\n