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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Thanks for the summary.
It still sounds like a tough one for the actual humans occupying the space...reminds me of oil execs drinking a glass of contaminated water at a press conference - but would they drink it every day?
With that many occupants in a building, several are going to end up with cancer...almost certainly unrelated to the stuff in the ceiling, but what happens to employee morale and willingness to spend 8 hrs a day there?
Absolute risk may be near zero, but perceived risk might be more important?
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Oh it's entirely perception, based on inflammatory and panicked rhetoric. That's essentially what CNOOC's entire legal argument is: the perceived risk is too high for them to continue to occupy the space. The issue is whether or not CNOOC deliberately crafted this narrative in order to plant the seeds for breaking their lease. Up to the courts to decide, but in my opinion from what I've seen, it sure seems like CNOOC fanned the flames of paranoia and fear in order to get out of an expensive lease for far more space than they needed.
In reality, if you've ever set foot in a building built before 1983(ish), you've been surrounded by asbestos. Fireproofing spray, drywall compound, duct mastic, floor tiles: it was used all over the place, and it's not dangerous if you just leave it.