"Freedom Industries" facing the wrath of a toxic spill in West Virginia

Anti-Party said:
Profit is all that matters to the small brains that aren't Christian like the Right wing likes to think they are and aren't worried about individual Liberty like Libertarians think they are.

Instead corrupt media has influenced Right Wing "freedom fighters" into thinking that freedom is when you can harm people for profit, basically everything thing the party use to stand against and is now the ICON.
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Mott the Hoople said:
I had researched the topic before I even replied to your post. I do this for a living. I'm not questioning your motives but my point I was getting at was lets know what the facts are before we jump to conclusion. One of the facts is that this material that was spilled is not classified as toxic.
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I saw a bathtub full of the water, I would not drink it or bathe in it!
 
Anti-Party said:
Profit is all that matters to the small brains that aren't Christian like the Right wing likes to think they are and aren't worried about individual Liberty like Libertarians think they are.

Instead corrupt media has influenced Right Wing "freedom fighters" into thinking that freedom is when you can harm people for profit, basically everything thing the party use to stand against and is now the ICON.
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Mott the Hoople said:
It also has an LD50 of around 850 mg/kg. Slightly more toxic than dish soap. It's not corrosive, it's not ignitable, it's not radioactive, it's not an oxidizer, it's not classified as a marine pollutant, it's not toxic, nor does it carry any miscellaneous USEPA hazardous waste codes.

Having said that as more information is discovered per the investigations it appears this company has had a pretty bad history of a willful and negligent environmental record.

The fact that the chemical spilled is non hazardous does not mitigate their behavior. What if this has been benzene? You want to talk about an unmitigated disaster that would have been and this company does store chemicals far more hazardous than the one that was spilled. Not to mention their, what appears to be, willful negligence in this case contributed a large quantity of pollution to the Kanawa river and shut down the municipal water operations for 300,000 for close to a week. Lines that had to be repetitively purged to get rid of the chemical. Will they be held accountable for the economic cost due to that spill? I think that they should.
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Okay, whew, now I feel better, did you have a snicker, lol
 
Anti-Party said:
Profit is all that matters to the small brains that aren't Christian like the Right wing likes to think they are and aren't worried about individual Liberty like Libertarians think they are.

Instead corrupt media has influenced Right Wing "freedom fighters" into thinking that freedom is when you can harm people for profit, basically everything thing the party use to stand against and is now the ICON.
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1966stang said:
As has the Philosophy of Ike. Both parties have gotten more dysfunctional, not less.
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Exactly, when it comes to scratching backs of big business Dems will look the other way the same as Republicans! Follow the money.
 
Right said:
Sensible regulation means that you have reasonable standards for pollutants emitted outside of the plant, and reasonable penalties assessed when they are violated. It also means requiring a "belt and suspenders" approach to stored chemicals to contain the leak from a primary containment vessel. Monitoring and periodic inspections should be done by the state or its third party contractor, and paid for through permits issued to the plant.

This leak occurred because the secondary containment dike was not maintained properly. Whoever inspected it should be held liable.
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is this a joke? This spill was because "Freedom Industries" hadn't inspected it since what, 1994 if I remember right? If you are going to hold that inspector accountable, then so be it.

I'll have you know this is a bigger lesson on freedom than I could ever teach.

Freedom in America is knowing that we will never have to worry about water like that. Not less regulation on coal industry for bigger profits. This topic is FULL of Irony.
 
Truth Detector said:
Talk about tiny brains; how about dunces like you who manage to function without a brain. Stunning to say the least.

What do right winger Christians and Libertarians have to do with this story? Oh that's right; NOTHING.

This is a Democratic controlled State dunce.
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..........ummmm..........Federal..........regulations.......maybe :).......jeez dude
 
Truth Detector said:
Please identify the regulations that were de-regulated that resulted in this spill. I'm curious to see them.

How does one "enforce" regulations that have been "de-regulated".

This post is another confused farce that doesn't lead to any direction but stupid.
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So you are noting that there was NO de-regulation before this spill but it happened due to lack of regulation today when the Right Wing is fighting for less regulation today. Thanks kid.
 
1966stang said:
We don't need anti capitalist anti right winger. We need responsible regulation. Yes I know it is an accident. Rather than calling everyone here a dunce....what do you think should be responsibly done to keep this from happening again?
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Well I'm a capitalist and Pro-Regulation. I'm also a core Right Winger but I'm PROUD to say that I'm supporting the Left more today because they aren't spitting in the faces of everyone in America for profit. I don't think you know who I am vs what the idiots on here paint me to be. I think hard work should get hard pay. I think that if you are a part of a team that makes millions, you deserve your share, you were a part of that. Any small brain that misunderstands me is pathetic.
 
The company blamed for a chemical spill that left 300,000 West Virginians without safe drinking water filed for bankruptcy Friday.

Freedom Industries Inc., facing multiple lawsuits and state and federal investigations after the Jan. 9 spill, filed a Chapter 11 petition with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of West Virginia.

Company president Gary Southern signed the paperwork, which lists the company's assets and liabilities as a range - both between $1 million and $10 million. It says the company has at least 200 creditors and owes its top 20 creditors $3.66 million.

The water was tainted after a chemical used to clean coal leaked from a storage tank and then a containment area at a facility owned by Freedom Industries. The water ran into the Elk River, contaminating the state's largest water system.

The bankruptcy document says the leaky storage tank appears to have been pierced through its base by some sort of object. It also says a current theory for the hole is that a local water line that broke near the Charleston plant could have made the ground beneath the storage tank freeze in the cold days before the spill.

After the spill, residents in a nine-county area around the state capital of Charleston were told not to use the water for anything other than flushing toilets. Some businesses and schools were forced to close for several days. The water restrictions have since been lifted for most residents.

The terminal that leaked had not been inspected by state officials since 2001, when it was owned by a different company operating under more stringent rules. State officials said Freedom Industries bought the terminal last month.


http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?s...world&id=9397777&rss=rss-kabc-article-9397777

That puts a whole new spin on who is going to pay for cleanup
 
Anti-Party said:
If you are going to act all "Right Wingy" then drink it..... Thought you were better.
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As opposed to you acting incredibly stupid; got it dunce and carry on.

Oh wait, you’re not acting. I stand corrected; as opposed to you being incredibly stupid. My bad; carry on.
 
Anti-Party said:
Well I'm a capitalist and Pro-Regulation. I'm also a core Right Winger but I'm PROUD to say that I'm supporting the Left more today because they aren't spitting in the faces of everyone in America for profit. I don't think you know who I am vs what the idiots on here paint me to be. I think hard work should get hard pay. I think that if you are a part of a team that makes millions, you deserve your share, you were a part of that. Any small brain that misunderstands me is pathetic.
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You're nothing of the type; you're a rabid left leaning uninformed dunce who parrots the incredibly stupid talking points of the left.

Not only are you painfully stupid, but in denial as well.
 
StormX said:
The company blamed for a chemical spill that left 300,000 West Virginians without safe drinking water filed for bankruptcy Friday.

Freedom Industries Inc., facing multiple lawsuits and state and federal investigations after the Jan. 9 spill, filed a Chapter 11 petition with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of West Virginia.

Company president Gary Southern signed the paperwork, which lists the company's assets and liabilities as a range - both between $1 million and $10 million. It says the company has at least 200 creditors and owes its top 20 creditors $3.66 million.

The water was tainted after a chemical used to clean coal leaked from a storage tank and then a containment area at a facility owned by Freedom Industries. The water ran into the Elk River, contaminating the state's largest water system.

The bankruptcy document says the leaky storage tank appears to have been pierced through its base by some sort of object. It also says a current theory for the hole is that a local water line that broke near the Charleston plant could have made the ground beneath the storage tank freeze in the cold days before the spill.

After the spill, residents in a nine-county area around the state capital of Charleston were told not to use the water for anything other than flushing toilets. Some businesses and schools were forced to close for several days. The water restrictions have since been lifted for most residents.

The terminal that leaked had not been inspected by state officials since 2001, when it was owned by a different company operating under more stringent rules. State officials said Freedom Industries bought the terminal last month.


http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?s...world&id=9397777&rss=rss-kabc-article-9397777

That puts a whole new spin on who is going to pay for cleanup
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More people without jobs; yay Liberals!!
 
Anti-Party said:
So you are noting that there was NO de-regulation before this spill but it happened due to lack of regulation today when the Right Wing is fighting for less regulation today. Thanks kid.
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Are you purposefully stupid, or were you born this way? I am thinking you were born stupid.

Let me post it again because reading comprehension appears to be difficult for painfully stupid people like you:

Please identify the regulations that were de-regulated that resulted in this spill. I'm curious to see them.

How does one "enforce" regulations that have been "de-regulated"?

I'm struggling to discern where I am claiming there were NO regulations in place before the spill. But you are an ignorant dunce of epic proportions and have a tendency to fabricate your own strawmen to argue against.

Try to focus and be honest for one time in your pathetic life and answer my questions.
 
Anti-Party said:
Seems like China is full of accidents...........................................................(+1Mil periods)
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WTF does China have to do with an accident in West Virginia? Oh wait, you're an epic dishonest dunce who doesn't care about facts, the truth or reality so let me help you with this difficult question: NOTHING.

You're beyond "mere stupid."
 
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