J3FF3R00 Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 These fuckin guys... "Federal authorities, including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, began investigating how the foaming agent escaped from the Freedom Industries plant and seeped into the Elk River. Just how much of the chemical leaked into the river was not yet known." http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/11/261607496/hundreds-of-thousands-still-without-water-in-w-va?sc=17&f=1001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr lopez Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 FRACK EVERYTHING IN SIGHT! QUICK BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE\ edit: actually should be frack everything *not* in sight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vamos scorcho Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 I drink and shower with bottled water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 ^ Good for you, asshole. "Freedom Industries" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 Freedom Industries? Lol really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimpyLoo Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 "Freedom Industries" Orwell's relevance is proven on like a hourly basis in this world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest disparaissant Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 pssh this never would have happened if the coal industry was deregulated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delet... Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 I drink and shower with bottled water. And the bottled water thread gets new converts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 yay bottled wa-oh. nevermind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delet... Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 That happened when we had the brisbane floods. At the time we were going for our normal shop and usually get lots of mineral water and big containers of pure still water, and we wer confronted by empty shelves like that. We did manage to get a fair bit though, and a snippy couple that was walking past my brother and i commented loudly about how we were panic buying, when in fact all we were doing was getting what we always get, sigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 yeah sigh indeed, I'm sure those people who didn't get any water after you felt your pain, lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SR4 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 I could'ave sworn West VA sent all their water to Colorado in exchange for painkillers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 ^ Thanks for that comment, I ended up watching the Bill Moyers interview w/ Hedges last night because I haven't read "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt" and Hedges is clearly passionate about this subject. Might have to buy that book. I actually just came here to post this, though: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Freedom Industries, the company whose chemical spill is responsible for the contamination of much of the Kanawha Valley's water, has existed in its current form for less than two weeks. On the last day of 2013, Freedom Industries, which distributes chemicals used in coal mining, merged with three other companies: Etowah River Terminal, Poca Blending and Crete Technologies, a Delaware company....Details are still scant about Farrell and the company's two founders, but some details about the men, Southern and Carl L. Kennedy II, are known. Freedom Industries was founded in 1992 by Southern and Kennedy, according to filings with the West Virginia secretary of state.Kennedy is still listed as "incorporator" on the secretary of state's website, but a woman who answered the phone at Freedom Industries said he left the company "years ago."In 2005, federal prosecutors charged Kennedy with failing to pay more than $200,000 in income taxes, according to reports at the time. In 1987, he pleaded guilty to selling between 10 and 12 ounces of cocaine, according to reports.http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201401100119 same thing reported on businessweek: State records in West Virginia show that a man named Carl L. Kennedy II joined Gary Southern in forming the company years ago. A well-known restaurant owner and man-about-town in Charleston, according to the Gazette, Kennedy is a twice-convicted felon. The paper reported on Sunday that he pleaded guilty in federal court in West Virginia in 2005 to tax evasion and was sentenced to three years in prison, a penalty that was reduced after he agreed to wear a wire and make controlled cocaine buys in a separate investigation. Kennedy had some background in the cocaine field; in 1987 he “pleaded guilty to selling between 10 and 12 ounces of cocaine in connection with a scandal that toppled then-Charleston Mayor Mike Roark,” the Gazette explained. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-13/meet-freedom-industries-the-company-behind-the-west-virginia-spill The top commenter on the businessweek article remarked, Who would've thought that a couple of failed cokehead sports bar owners were bad stewards of the environment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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