The continuing bad news in West Virginia is that Freedom Industries "Oops-ed" again by neglecting to mention there'd been a second chemical spilled at the same time as the MCHM (it appears they occurred at the same time - tho' nobody's saying for sure). So there was also a spill of PPH (polyglycol ethers). But since this other shit is a bit less toxic, we can just kinda overlook all that.
Let's leave aside for just a moment that a 30-year campaign toweaken shitcan our Regulatory Infrastructure continues to produce this ongoing nightmare scenario - from Enron to Wall Street to Deepwater Horizon to Mayflower AR to Charleston WV to everywhere else there's still one GOP/Glibertarian moron bitchin' about how da gubmint just needs to leave us all alone.
OK OK - try a little harder to leave all that shit aside, cuz here's the thing: The circle is closing.
In West Virginia, the governor has come out and said he doesn't know what's up because he's not a scientist. The scientists are a little baffled because they've all been working on something other than Air and Water Quality cuz a guy really can't make much of a living doing that anymore (or they're all working for the chemical companies, so they're not likely to bite the hand that feeds 'em). Da Gubmint is pretty useless because the people who used to work on things like Environmental Health have been forced out by budget cuts etc (see "working for the chemical companies" above), plus the "regulators" who're still on the job were put there by Coin-Operated Politicians who needed to pay off their contributors by demonstrating how Business Friendly they really are. Of course the private-sector Water Utility can't be expected to do anything because they're held hostage to Big Coal just like everybody else.
And now, Freedom Industries has filed for bankruptcy protection - with a twist:
Everybody's guity; nobody's responsible; nobody can be held accountable.
So they close the loop, which basically indemnifies everybody who by right should be crucified - which is exactly how it's supposed to work - and guess who gets left holding the bag.
One last thing - while everybody's running around yelling about how they don't know anything and they can't do anything, and and and - there is this little thing called The West Virginia Poison Center, and there's a "branch office" right there at The Charleston Area Med Ctr, 3110 Maccorkle Ave SE, Charleston, WV 25304 (800) 222-1222
Let's leave aside for just a moment that a 30-year campaign to
OK OK - try a little harder to leave all that shit aside, cuz here's the thing: The circle is closing.
In West Virginia, the governor has come out and said he doesn't know what's up because he's not a scientist. The scientists are a little baffled because they've all been working on something other than Air and Water Quality cuz a guy really can't make much of a living doing that anymore (or they're all working for the chemical companies, so they're not likely to bite the hand that feeds 'em). Da Gubmint is pretty useless because the people who used to work on things like Environmental Health have been forced out by budget cuts etc (see "working for the chemical companies" above), plus the "regulators" who're still on the job were put there by Coin-Operated Politicians who needed to pay off their contributors by demonstrating how Business Friendly they really are. Of course the private-sector Water Utility can't be expected to do anything because they're held hostage to Big Coal just like everybody else.
And now, Freedom Industries has filed for bankruptcy protection - with a twist:
Everybody's guity; nobody's responsible; nobody can be held accountable.
So they close the loop, which basically indemnifies everybody who by right should be crucified - which is exactly how it's supposed to work - and guess who gets left holding the bag.
One last thing - while everybody's running around yelling about how they don't know anything and they can't do anything, and and and - there is this little thing called The West Virginia Poison Center, and there's a "branch office" right there at The Charleston Area Med Ctr, 3110 Maccorkle Ave SE, Charleston, WV 25304 (800) 222-1222
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