Chemical Spill Leaves 300,000 waterless

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  • JWPearl
    JWPearl Posts: 19,893
    You affected too Chad ?
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    JWPearl said:

    You affected too Chad ?

    i am not. well that is to say i am not in this state here. im in iowa.

    however, with all the farming chemicals assholes are putting into the ground & spraying on the fields we are not safe here either. you'd think people would protect water
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,660
    West Virginia has taken so much abuse- it's sad because it is a beautiful state and was once even more so. This reminds me of the book Erik Reece wrote, Lost Mountain, which talks about the devastation to caused by coal mining to the Appalachian Mtns.

    I hope somehow those of you in the Charleston area are received much needed assistance.
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  • Abtann0527
    Abtann0527 Posts: 18
    Guys thanks for the support! The water is back on, but I sure as hell am not drinking it! Or letting my kids bathe in it! It still burns ur eyes and comes out of the tap turquoise blue! Sad state of affairs here in the mountain state, even after they gave the go ahead and told us its safe people are getting sick and you wouldn't believe the people around here with rashes and dermatitis!!
  • Abtann0527
    Abtann0527 Posts: 18
    And the water Company just put in for a rate increase! SMH
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,030
    i heard the company responsible for this just filed for bankruptcy protection. i wish the same would have happened to BP a could of years ago.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,660
    Abtann0527 said:

    Guys thanks for the support! The water is back on, but I sure as hell am not drinking it! Or letting my kids bathe in it! It still burns ur eyes and comes out of the tap turquoise blue! Sad state of affairs here in the mountain state, even after they gave the go ahead and told us its safe people are getting sick and you wouldn't believe the people around here with rashes and dermatitis!!


    If you can afford it you might consider getting the best filtration system you can find in your price range even if it just makes washing dishes and bathing safer. I truly wish you folks well- that's a heavy burden especially with kids in the family. Keep us posted.
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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    this is so troublesome. how the fuck is this possible? lots of folks, companies & governments do not give a fuck & do not think beyond profit. it is a scary time to be a little nobody
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    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
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    no more forever."
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  • riotgrl
    riotgrl LOUISVILLE Posts: 1,895
    This is just beyond a sad state of affairs and it really makes me angry what has happened in WV. I live in Louisville and the chemicals just hit us the past Friday and our local water company keeps assuring us that it is so diluted at this point that there is no harm to us at all. They, unlike most of the other communities around us, refused to close their intakes and IMO are putting our whole community at risk. Needless to say, I am not drinking nor bathing in the water for the next few days. In part, because the water company is basing their recommendations on CDC standards which address the safety of this chemical. According to this article (and many other sources I've read of the past few days), the CDC knows next to nothing about the long term effect upon humans. Abtann0527, I'll be sending you good thoughts as your community addresses these problems.

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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,289
    Justice has been served!!!

    Freedom Industries has been fined $11,000 for leaving 300,000 people without water for two weeks while dumping a chemical that the EPA really doesn't yet know what harm it could cause ...

    businessinsider.com/company-west-virginia-chemical-spill-fined-11000-2014-7
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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,340
    Fuck yeah. Murica.
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,289
    I'm always amazed when I see results like this. I work in construction and if something like this happened under my watch it would be excess of 500k and me being fired and tried. At a minimum.


    West Virginia legislation is obviously corrupt. It's bizarro
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    Jason P said:

    I'm always amazed when I see results like this. I work in construction and if something like this happened under my watch it would be excess of 500k and me being fired and tried. At a minimum.


    West Virginia legislation is obviously corrupt. It's bizarro

    clearly you need to donate more money to some PAC or another, thats the murican way!
    WV is so sad, it would be one of the greatest, strongest states in the US if the coal companies wouldnt have gotten away with slavery well into the 20th century.
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,660
    edited July 2014
    I think it sucks and that the company who spilled it should be forced to give a shit load of money towards clean up, fines, conservation, and compensation to those who are suffering get from their mistake. Only $11,000 fine? Tells me the government (state?) doesn't give a flying fuck and probably they are getting kickbacks or something from the mining companies. Everything is corrupt when the people running the show think money is the most important thing in the world. That's why our world is going downhill so fast. Money. Greed.
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,289
    I talked with my environment manager to get his thoughts. He said that although the fine is small, it proves negligence in the court of law and opens the company up to personal lawsuits.
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    there is a new owner, will that effect the outcome of civil suits?
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