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Hooterdear t1_ja60s14 wrote

"Some of the liquid wastes will be sent to a facility in Vickery, Ohio, where it will be disposed of in an underground injection well,” Shore said. “Norfolk Southern will also beghin shipping solid waste to the Heritage Incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio.”

Lovely.

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yblame t1_ja64jy3 wrote

Out of sight, out of mind. Company that fucked up dusts off hands and walks away as per usual

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ecalz622 t1_ja6a3el wrote

Spread the pollution 🤷‍♂️

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DukeLukeivi t1_ja6h661 wrote

Yeah I they should just excise the entire county from the crust of the Earth, tractor beam it into space, and just throw it into the sun - it's so easy!

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ecalz622 t1_ja6hfgh wrote

They already fucked that place up, keep it there and declare it a super fund!

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DukeLukeivi t1_ja6idvh wrote

This is actually orders of magnitude too small to be a superfund - if the factory making these chemicals blew up, that's a superfund. Cleaning up a chemical spill by moving contaminated materials to the nearest qualifying incinerator is really the way it's done. A lazy uncontrolled burn poisoning the region was a disgusting action tho .

I'd personally like to see some details on this dump well - I'm a bit dubious about that prospect, but reading is a better option than raving.

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nitro316 t1_ja79ka3 wrote

I'm curious about the well too. With all the shady shit that's been happening to obfuscate the actual pollution, I wouldn't be surprised if it's just a hole in the ground with no protection whatever for more contamination.

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DukeLukeivi t1_ja7d81l wrote

Reading is a better option than raving.

Ffs the level of afactual hysterical shit talking in this thread is Norfolk Southern levels of toxic. Seriously people throwing fits that contamination is being taken to a nearby incinerator? How tf is this """supposed to be''" cleaned up, yea experts on pollution remediation for the week? Just get the USS Enterprise to tractor beam the whole county up into space and throw it in the sun?

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nitro316 t1_ja7fwsa wrote

There's an article now claiming that the site in Texas, which is supposedly the site for the contaminated water, has no knowledge of any of what this article is claiming. So feel free to tell the rest of what is actually happening.

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DukeLukeivi t1_ja7golj wrote

This article is newer than that one, they've apparently consolidated processing locations to be more local - a good idea to limit liability/spread.

Nobody bitching here actually has any solutions or answers, just malding that nothing being planned or done is "good enough."

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Indercarnive t1_ja7gtnv wrote

I mean, is there an alternative? Waste going to waste removal/processing sites isn't exactly unsurprising.

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Hooterdear t1_ja7ttpo wrote

You're right. I'm just thinking that it's a little disturbing how we live, treat the planet, dispose of our waste. Surely we can think of something a little more sustainable and healthy.

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