Exactly one month and a day after 10,000 gallons of chemicals spilled into West Virginia’s water, members of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure committee on Monday traveled to the state’s capital city, ostensibly to ask state leaders the still-unanswered questions surrounding the leak. There are many.Perhaps the most important party that could provide answers would have been Freedom Industries, the company whose chemical storage tanks leaked a coal-cleaning chemical called crude MCHM into the water. Company president Gary Southern had been invited to testify, but in the end, did not show up.“I find that extremely telling,” said Rep. Shelley Moore Capitol (R-WV). “Freedom Industries’ decision not to testify today compounds its gross misconduct, and is an absolute affront to every person impacted by its spill.”
are seeing a glimpse into Keystone future, leaks ans spills and a quick retreat back to Canada? don't forget what it has already done to Alberta.
Indeed, after being being criticized for failing to immediately report the chemical leak, and faced with lawsuits from those who had been harmed, Freedom filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The bankruptcy shielded it from lawsuits, and since then the company has been increasingly opaque — only breaking its silence to revise spill numbers (last week it said 10,000, not 7,500 gallons, had spilled) and admit that more than one chemical had actually spilled.
these are the businesses that republicans support so running away did they think they were covered, well they were by incorporation, so where do the chemicals spilled rest on the taxpayers? this kind of thing is good reason not to rush into potential dangerous waters no pun intended but look what happened, and we get stuck the state wil ask for fed money, even though WV has been a total bucket.
http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2011/01/in-wv-democrat-party-machine-refuses-to-fight-obamacare.html
