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

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"Freedom Industries" is responsible for a toxic spill in the water supply of West Virginia.

I think we all know the irony of this.

The spill at this plant turned a river blue/green. City officials deemed the water unsafe and 300,000 people around the city have been affected.

Link here http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201401100100

But as we all know. Freedom isn't about worrying about others. It's about "I'm free and can do anything" right Libertarians and Tea Party?
 
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.
 
Anti-Party said:
"Freedom Industries" is responsible for a toxic spill in the water supply of West Virginia.

I think we all know the irony of this.

The spill at this plant turned a river blue/green. City officials deemed the water unsafe and 300,000 people around the city have been affected.

Link here http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201401100100

But as we all know. Freedom isn't about worrying about others. It's about "I'm free and can do anything" right Libertarians and Tea Party?
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How do you know that it was a toxic spill. Please verify that comment.
 
Anti-Party said:
Big Failure aka Big Money just made a post about this blaming the Left.....
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Are you any worse than he is? Do you know the facts about this spill? Specifically, what do you know about the chemical that was spilled? What do you know about the circumstances of the actual spill itself? Do you know for a fact that the spill resulted from deliberate negligence as you've implied?
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Are you any worse than he is? Do you know the facts about this spill? Specifically, what do you know about the chemical that was spilled? What do you know about the circumstances of the actual spill itself? Do you know for a fact that the spill resulted from deliberate negligence as you've implied?
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Do you seriously think he cares? I looked up 4-Methylcyclohexanol and it is slightly soluble in water and is less dense than water hence it will float on the surface.

http://www.chemicalbook.com/ChemicalProductProperty_EN_CB7273771.htm
 
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Anti-Party said:
"Freedom Industries" is responsible for a toxic spill in the water supply of West Virginia.

I think we all know the irony of this.

The spill at this plant turned a river blue/green. City officials deemed the water unsafe and 300,000 people around the city have been affected.

Link here http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201401100100

But as we all know. Freedom isn't about worrying about others. It's about "I'm free and can do anything" right Libertarians and Tea Party?
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Wow blaming political partisanship. "I think we all know the irony of this. "
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Are you any worse than he is? Do you know the facts about this spill? Specifically, what do you know about the chemical that was spilled? What do you know about the circumstances of the actual spill itself? Do you know for a fact that the spill resulted from deliberate negligence as you've implied?
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It was a coal plant named "Freedom Industries" that wasn't inspected for YEARS. The bin that spilled was full of a chemical component that was used to wash coal. In humans it will cause vomiting, diarea, etc.

Mott, you should be smarter than this.
 
Right said:
Wow blaming political partisanship. "I think we all know the irony of this. "
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So I blamed "political partisanship"? Have you read my name kid?

I don't care what party is to blame but I know that the Right fixates on less regulation for more money even when it comes to chemicals. Chemical disposal was one of Romneys top ten donors. Coal plants were also one of Romneys top ten contributors.

Any small brain should know that these plants should have been inspected more recently than the 90's.
 
Anti-Party said:
So I blamed "political partisanship"? Have you read my name kid?

I don't care what party is to blame but I know that the Right fixates on less regulation for more money even when it comes to chemicals. Chemical disposal was one of Romneys top ten donors. Coal plants were also one of Romneys top ten contributors.

Any small brain should know that these plants should have been inspected more recently than the 90's.
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Actually the right pushes for sensible regulation. I'll remind you that WV is completely controlled by Democrats.
 
Aoxomoxoa said:
Do you seriously think he cares? I looked up 4-Methylcyclohexanol and it is slightly soluble in water and is less dense than water hence it will float on the surface.

http://www.chemicalbook.com/ChemicalProductProperty_EN_CB7273771.htm
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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.
 
Anti-Party said:
Please don't question me before you research a topic.
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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.
 
Right said:
Actually the right pushes for sensible regulation. I'll remind you that WV is completely controlled by Democrats.
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Yea...unhuh....shows what you know about West Virginia.

The big culprit here is deregulation combined with lack of enforcement. Don't try to tell me that Repubs in WV would operate any different. I'll laugh in your face.
 
Right said:
Actually the right pushes for sensible regulation. I'll remind you that WV is completely controlled by Democrats.
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Damn, I am finding myself agreeing with you. There are portions of the right that do push for sensible regulations, which is what I ultimately want....not some sort of leftist anti free market police state, which is what some would think I want.

I don't know if one can blame properly republicans or democrats in this situation. The whole part of West Virginia in question has Union Carbide, Monsanto, and several other industries that pollute quite heavily. It has been called "cancer Alley" by some pundits.

Perhaps you could enlighten us as to what you do think sensible regulation should be for that part of West Virginia, and how we should go about obtaining that regulation in a real world/politics of the real and attainable sense.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Yea...unhuh....shows what you know about West Virginia.

The big culprit here is deregulation combined with lack of enforcement. Don't try to tell me that Repubs in WV would operate any different. I'll laugh in your face.
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This is correct also. Please see my post below. There are portions of the right that do call for sensible regulation....however....methinks Republicans in office would have done no better. Look at what a deregulated toxic wasteland portions of Texas have become, and that state is very republican in its orientation.
 
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