So, this may not be a huge deal, but as of 2pm this afternoon, Crude Oil is leaking into the James river and making its way into the Chesapeake. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/chi-virginia-train-derailment-20140430,0,5632709.story
since the nrc page has been down for weeks now ..... i would say the current administration cares less thanks obama http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/
btw all chemical, petroleum, and spills affecting bodies of water are to be reported to the nrc this helps federal, state and local authorities track and monitor cleanup
The petroleum industry, along with the nuclear energy providers, have achieved fail safe delivery methodology in case you haven't been skooled on the facts. All is well. Don't mind the oil slicks. That is from natural seepage. Go back to your regularly scheduled program.
That along with all the runoff from the recent rains and floodings. Looking forward to paddling in the resulting chemical soup off VB.
Nope, VB. OC is isolated from the Chesapeake Bay, they don't touch. OC has a small bay called "assawoman" that way created by a hurricane a long long time ago.
Wasn't sure whether to put this in the Monsanto/Corporation thread or here, but more subject specific to this thread... http://www.cbsnews.com/news/duke-energy-to-lawmakers-moving-toxic-coal-ash-costs-too-much/?a This sh!t seems to be happening everywhere. I hate to say it, but I don't think we'll be able to collectively get our acts together to get things right. Which is why I practice the Ghost Dance.
My prediction. They will get their way, the profits will keep rolling in, and the people of NC will pay for it in the form of rate hikes that will be approved by the guvmint. Watch those shares jump after they get their rate hikes. The "its too hard" argument kills me. To big to fail, to hard to clean up, costs too much money. When my kids trash their room and I tell them to clean it up and they complain "but it will take all day!" I say "well you shouldn't have messed it up in the first place". That's called responsibility. You make a mess, you clean it up. IDGAF if its "too hard". Eventually they start learning not to trash their room. In this wacky world my kids could trash their room and then charge me to clean it up. They could blow all their allowance money then tell me I have to bail them out b/c they blew it on stupid stuff.
Holy ****. Now that is disturbing, I mean on an enormous scale. And they want the general public to foot the bill? They should be accountable for cleaning up all of that with the 2.7 Billion in profit for the next few years, and if they end up going under because of the financial impact, let a responsible company take control for pennies on the dollar. I mean, the fact that it would take 30 years, with a dump truck every 3 minutes goes to show how long this company has had free reign with no regulation. It makes you wonder of the effects on the citizens in NC for the past 30 years. I mean, you would think in a situation like that everyone that has ever touched that water and got diarrhea would be all over these guys. Not to mention the lethal incidents that I am sure have been related to all that.
We gotta fillet some of these corporate head honchos like fishies. Not only are they passing the buck on to the people, they're also pushing for higher taxation for those who install solar panels????? Not the only place I've seen that either. Like fishies I say.
This is why they should have let the banks fail 4 years ago. When institutions with so much power abuse the general public, they have to be held responsible. Those banks should have fallen apart and been scooped up by responsible financial institutions. Yes, jobs would be lost, but it would have all recovered. And there have to be dozens of other fortune 500 companies that have the resources to push Duke right out of the industry over things like this. Rather than those shareholders turning a profit off this, they should all be force to fire sale their interests and let that company fall to it's knees. I mean, their assets should be liquidated and used to fix their mess.
Won't happen. Duke E is so entrenched in NC politics you'd have to get the hammer and chisel of the gods to cut them out. The agency that's supposed to be protecting us and going after these sum beetches was gutted by the current administration after they had the audacity to request additional information from the companies that wanted to start fracking in NC. (Didn't say no, just wanted info...and they got swept away and replaced). The new agency heads proposed a 100K fine and no requirement for Duke to clean anything up. What a joke. Would have got away with it but the SELC (Southern Environmental Law Center) threatened to sue and they changed their mind. So its in limbo now. Our governor was a Duke Energy exec for years. Yeah, he's on top of it, just trust him, he'll take care of it.
