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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?
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
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/
3.6 Roentgen, not great, not terrible.
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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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.
Wouldn't it be a shame if someone accidentally crushed that pipe shut with a trackhoe.
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)
What an appropriate username for this article
It's Texas so nobody will do anything
Which is why he moved there in the first place
They do love their pipelines of black liquids in Texas.
I know a fun game with Elon Musk and a funnel
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.
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*edit I don't care for the guy's personnal or political views but this thread has too much angry pitch forks mob vibe for me. I'm out.
Yeah, so what's the black stuff and why is the grass dying then? I guess they just need to expand what they're testing for.
Or conduct an inspection of the plant itself and find out what they're using, and where that pipe goes.
Nothing in the lab report. Everything in the lab report is far to low to be 'black stuff'. So I don't know and those who do are not talking.
So far I have to go with this is nothing but haters trying to yell without concern for facts. If we get more details I may change my mind but for now this is nothing and anyone saying otherwise should be embarrassed for their lack of concern for facts.
It’s still an illegal discharge. There are multiple things listed that are not good for the local environment. Even phosphorus and ammonia can be damaging by stimulating algae blooms.
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Have you not seen the Fifth Element? It's the same black ooze that drips off Guiliani.
Pure refined evil.
Idgaf if the battery plant's illegal discharge pipe is outputting pure potable springwater, it is an illegal discharge pipe.
Your reports are interesting...but unless I missed it (I did skim fairly quickly), I'd be curious to see what the data looked like before the plant went up.
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In a college environmental class, I chose as a project to measure the groundwater contamination upstream and downstream of a poultry processing facility. To my amazement and disappointment, the water downstream was way cleaner.
This guy red 30% of article only, dont listen to him
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What it did not do, explicitly, was grant Tesla the right to use public or private property for wastewater conveyance. The drainage district that manages the ditch the pipe was discharging into was never notified that the permit existed. Its workers found out the way drainage district workers in any small Texas county find out about things: by walking the ditch and seeing something new.
If the discharge permit is a good thing or a bad thing for the environment is another topic. But right now this seems to be the only legal issue in the room, right?
At least one that implicates Tesla. The people that permitted them to discharge and didn't include relevant pollutant values in said discharge are ~~having a bad day~~ enjoying their private yacht.
Why bother with expensive waste disposing process when you can just dump it somewhere.
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This is what motherfickers do when there's no consequences for breaking the law
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Plug pipe.
Wait nearby for repair crew & arrest them.
Repeat.
I think that the crew shouldn't be held accountable and are victims themselves. So they should be treated with kindness. But in light of this case of course that is more likely to happen than seeing any real consequences for people in charge.
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