Don’t hold the multi trillionaire accountable tho
This is what motherfickers do when there’s no consequences for breaking the law
Why bother with expensive waste disposing process when you can just dump it somewhere.
Externalities make the capitalism go round
We towed it outside the environment
Is there a reputable source for that or is autonocion some sort of reputable news outlet?
All msm controlled by corporations. They stop tahkiing when they told
Guess this is a conspiratory theory then or in support of one.
1 I don’t know 2 it is not
It was probably some guy in a makes on TV claiming it
Click the link. In the first paragraph it links to a kristv (msnbc?) article. Has photo and video in that article as well. Too many people here comment without reading…
I clicked it and the site didn’t seem reputable. And I don’t know msnbc.
Why no photo?
Seems like a photo of a pipe dislodging black sludge next to a photo of a tesla factory in a news page would instill a better sense of “evil corporation” to me.Said pipe:
This article links to another article that has it on video and photographed. You can see the clearly black liquid flowing into the clear water in the drainage ditch. Helps to click the link and read the article!
I did and expected to find an image in the article. See, had I posted this on lemmy, I’d have posted an article closer to the source, with the photos. I assumed others would do the same. I assume too much, sorry.
I know a fun game with Elon Musk and a funnel
Ah, the good old Swedish Drink.
It’s Texas so nobody will do anything
They do love their pipelines of black liquids in Texas.
Texas Tea
Which is why he moved there in the first place
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So, which entry-level employee with no ability to be responsible for this will be fired, and how big will the fine they won’t have to pay be?
Aabout tree fiddy
Companies don’t make structural mistakes. They are famously individualistic and unorganized and all illegal acts are by lone wolves and bad apples. All good work is done by CEO or the board. The rest of the individuals are parasites
/s in case someone needs
Per the article:
The sample was collected on April 7. Eurofins issued its results on April 10. According to the lab report, the 24-hour composite found:
• Hexavalent chromium at 0.0104 milligrams per liter, just above the lab’s reporting limit of 0.01 mg/L. Hexavalent chromium is classified as a known human carcinogen by the US National Toxicology Program. It is the substance the Erin Brockovich case was built around.
• Arsenic at 0.0025 mg/L. That is below the federal drinking water standard of 0.01 mg/L, but present.
• Strontium at 1.17 mg/L. Mazloum’s technical report on the findings noted that long-term exposure can affect bone density and kidney function in humans and wildlife.
• Lithium and vanadium at concentrations Lazarte’s letter described as abnormally high relative to rainwater or normal groundwater.
• Elevated levels of manganese, iron, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium and potassium consistent with industrial discharge. Manganese, a battery process tracer, can have neurological effects at chronic doses. Excess phosphorus can cause algae blooms that strip oxygen from waterways.
• Ammonia in the form of nitrogen at 1.68 mg/L, amplifying the algae bloom risk
That’s a suspiciously low level of arsenic. Where is the arsenic from their wells or municipal water ending up or are they clandestinely pumping river water?
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3.6 Roentgen, not great, not terrible.
Let’s hope they didn’t just make the data up. Or falsify it at the request of Musk. https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2018/03/14/Pennsylvania-DEP-sanctions-Eurofins-QC-for-water-testing-violations/
And I’m guessing water treatment doesn’t fix these, does it?
It can. But you’d need a facility built to do it.
If you don’t anticipate Strontium in your wastewater, you’re not going to build a system to leech it out or neutralize it.
Isn’t that the important part of the story? Effing Texas regulators didn’t detect Strontium (or other pollutants the factory didn’t mention) so didn’t test for it?
We’re so used to the idea that companies will do the least they are mandated to, but isn’t that why we have regulators? If I get a new water heater I’m required to have an inspector sign off and his job is to flag anything that is off. Why can’t a multibillion dollar industrial facility be held to the same standard?
Effing Texas regulators didn’t detect Strontium (or other pollutants the factory didn’t mention) so didn’t test for it?
I mean, they did. That’s how we know about it. But what can they actually do about it? Prince Abbott will just cover this up and fire anyone who won’t shut up about it.
Given the state of Texas’ infrastructure, probably fair to assume this doesn’t exist.
Houston has one of the better waste water treatment plants in the country.
Robstown, though? Idk. Doubt it
If a discharge pipe is traced back to a company - and it is discharging unsafe levels or typically unexpected chemicals - then it should be on that company to get their waste water into a manageable condition.
Just because a municipal/council/whatever has above average water processing, doesn’t mean companies get a free pass to abuse it
Erin Brockovich 2
Who would play the young upstart that idolizes/challenges a grizzled and worn out Julia Roberts?
Who is going to drink the forbidden juice? At least it will cure your depression.
RFK Jr’s new miracle elixir…
Probably Joe Rogan.
Hopefully it’s fatal
Forever
“Well, technically, if you are dead, you are not depressed”
— (probably) Walter Freeman, neurologist, inventor of the lobotomy
This is some Chemetco level shit
JFC
Chemetco and its senior officers became involved in multiple federal investigations during the 1990s. In 1992, the Federal Election Commission found that Chemetco, as well as its company president, John M. Suarez, and associate José Bóveda, arranged unlawful corporate and foreign campaign contributions affecting the U.S presidential primary in Missouri. The FEC’s General Counsel described the payments as “clearly laundered money,” and evidenced that funds were routed through entities owned by Chemetco and a Belgian holding company.[1] Suarez took over ownership of the company the following year.[1]
In 1996, an inspector from the Illinois EPA discovered a concealed 10-inch pipe discharging heavy metals from the smelter into wetlands connected to the Mississippi River. The finding led to a joint investigation by the U.S EPA, FBI, and Illinois State Police, leading to federal indictments against the company and its chief officer, Denis L. Feron, who owned parent company Metallo Chimique. Prosecution and conviction followed, for conspiracy and felony violations of the Clean Water Act. After Chemetco entered a nolo contendere (“no contest”) plea, the company was fined $3.8 million, then ceased operations in 2001, following Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
The case established legal precedent when the Seventh Circuit held in United States v. Chemetco, Inc. that the number of violation days is a sentencing factor for judges, rather than a matter for a jury. Atmospheric modeling later identified Chemetco as one of the largest individual North American sources of dioxins in the Arctic, including measurable fallout in Nunavut, Canada.[2] Federal investigations also documented extensive worker exposure to health problems including chronic beryllium disease and hazards such as widespread lead overexposure.[3]
The former Chemetco site was made a Superfund cleanup project in 2010 and remains under oversight by the EPA. Remediation continues to address contaminated soils, slag, and hazardous waste; at the same time, ongoing litigation involves numerous Potentially Responsible Parties including Fortune 500 companies.
And of course there is nothing about the entire C suite being jailed for this…
How many people died because of this? How many have gotten sick? If I poison a person, I go to jail because doh. If I poison 10 million people, I get a few million dollars in fines
I hate this world.
If this Tesla pipeline is true, I want investigated who knew about it, who came up with the idea, who signed off on it, who implemented it, who dug it, and I want ALL of them jailed after Tesla being fined into bankruptcy over this so that there is a huge cleanup fund available. Being the narcissistic asshole that he is, I feel free to assume Elmo musk knew about it or probably came up with the idea in the first place. Fuck all of these people
Wooow, it’s like when your SimCity takes a terrible turn.
Plug that pipe with Elon’s bloated corpse
No don’t kill him first.
Sure he’s not dead? He’s already been a bloated decomposing body for years.
Seriously. The dudes thorax looks like he’s had extra organs installed ‘just in case’.
He needs two livers to process all the research chems he probably stacks every day.
What an appropriate username for this article
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Wouldn’t it be a shame if someone accidentally crushed that pipe shut with a trackhoe.
pipe shut with a trackhoe
I ran crosscountry in high school.
was this in Idaho?
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Then it goes completely uncontrolled into the ground and is very hard to remove. What you want to do is to seal the pipe so the back flow happens inside the facility (assuming they didn’t completely butcher the pipe installation, which… you know… isn’t safe to assume)
They probably have backflow preventers
Then just build a second pipe directing it right back into their lobby.
That, I can get behind
