The Great West Virginia Freedom Industries' Poison Swindle VIDEO
A detailed synopsis of Freedom Industry’s bankruptcy filed Friday, Jan. 17, after poisoning 100,000 houses and 300,000 people in West Virginia with its mystery chemical, was presented by MSNBC late Friday.
“The company at the center of the West Virginia water crisis appears to be dodging lawsuits and creditors,” says MSNBC’s Chris Hayes.
Only eight days after Freedom Industries, a distributor for the Koch brothers, was found to have caused the water crisis, it has filed Chapter 11 Bankrupcy.
Freedom has operated with almost no government oversight and subject to almost no state and local monitoring.
There is, however, much more to this story in the state that has been a model of corporatism for the rest of the nation, as reporter Bob Kincaid told Hayes Friday in the report below.
One thing that remains unmentioned in relation to the West Virginia chemical leak, absent from any advisory or warning, is what toxicologists, such as Dr. Riki Ott, repeatedly told Gulf Coast residents after the 2010 BO Gulf oil catastrophe. That is:
“If you can smell the poison, you are being poisoned.”
The other thing that too many Gulf Coast survivors learned the hard way is, that no amount of poison is “safe.”
Finally, an advisory was issued Friday about children and the water crisis.
Dr. Raheel Khan, president of the West Virginia chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, has stated that younger children may also be more at risk.
A report published Friday said children should only drink bottled water, but many question if that is enough to protect the young from being poisoned.
West Virginians first learned about the water crisis on January 9, when authorities warned 300,000 people living in nine West Virginia counties tonot use tap water or do anything with it except flush their toilets with it.
Over 7,000 gallons of a chemical, known as “Crude MCHM,” had leaked from a Freedom Industry storage tank into the Elk River — the key water supply source for the area.
A strong licorice odor was a signal that achemical was present. Officials warned they could not say the water was safe.
Last weekend, state health officials said they had guidance from the Centers For Disease Control.
Monday, officials began lifting the water ban in some areas. As that happened, the number of residents having to go to emergency rooms surged.
Water continues injuring and/or making people sick, some with even short exposure, including people in areas where the water ban was lifted and despite their flushing home water systems as officials directed.
Here’s Chris Hayes reporting (below) how the company responsible for this growing disaster has been able thus far to escape accountability and continues attempting to do so.
Sunday, the Charleston Gazette reported one of Freedom Industries’ well-connected executives, Carl Lemley Kennedy II, has two prior felonies. In 2005, he was charged with tax evasion and failure to pay the government Freedom employees’ tax withholdings while he was the company’s accountant from 2000 to 2003. The other felony came in 1987, for selling cocaine.
But the NSNBC story (in the video below) goes much deeper than that.
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Thank you. This story is amazing. It’s as though the entire process was choreographed in advance. The question is how early in the sequence of events the obscene dance began, and who all the dirty dancers are…
Yet another case of unregulated industries raping and pillaging. But fossil fuels are dirty, no matter how well regulated. We have to kill this industry, and the big corporations, by not buying their products or letting others buy them. And that’s totally possible with fossil fuels.
Deborah, excellent reporting on this corporate tyranny. I have questions. No one is reporting on the potential for affecting water supplies downstream. I saw one report where Cincinnati is turning off its intakes as the chemical spill passes there, but what about further downstream, like Memphis and New Orleans? Is this supposed to be diluted like the radiation from Fukushima was supposed to do before arriving on the West Coast? If so, we are in serious trouble here. No one is reporting on this locally. When will it arrive and how severe will the contamination be? I have read that the 7500 gallon figure is bogus and that this has been leaking for over a month. Should people living in the Mississippi watershed be taking precautions now by stocking up on drinking water? Is there any way to filter out this chemical? Have they determined a level of toxicity in the water in Parts per Million?
Why would you have to ask someone else if you should be stocking up on alternate water supplies? Make an informed decision.
Because she is well-informed on this subject and there are no other sources of information on the subject. She knows the situation on the Gulf Coast and probably has better sources than I do. NOTHING is being reported on this locally like it is in the Midwest. Where would you suggest I go to get the information to make an informed decision, the same place the 300,000 victims in Charleston got their information? Why do you ask stupid questions?
Here in South Charleston, we are right in the middle of this water crisis. In my estimation what the powers that be have done to mitigate this situation has been totally inadequate. Footage of the flushing operation on local TV showed it being done with some sort of sprinkler or shower head attached to the hydrant which was allowing only a small amount of water to pass, I would estimate maybe 10-20 gallons per minute. They should have just taken the cap off and let it run full flow like they do to clear sediment from the lines.
This whole thing to me has been a comedy of errors. Apparently no one was watching or monitoring the tank farm when the leak started. When it was discovered, there was already a lake of MCHM around the tank, and leaking copiously into the river because of a faulty dike. Then apparently no one thought to notify the water company that the stuff was leaking into the river directly above their intake, and they continued to suck in the contaminated water for hours on end, contaminating their entire system. It was, I estimate, a good six to eight hours after the leak started before the public was notified, mostly by streamers across the top or bottom of the screen on local channels. I say they should have blown the sirens like they normally do for chemical spills, but I never heard them. Especially so for a spill that resulted in the gross contamination of the public water supply.
Then the powers that be decided one part per million was a safe level (How? By the WAG method?)(WAG=Wild A** Guess) and when the level at the intake got down to that they started flushing, with a flow that wouldn’t be adequate for a street sweeper. At one PPM the water still has a strong smell, but that was adequate to them. Then to add insult to injury, when the level at the Charleston water plant reached 1 PPM, the people doing bulk water distribution started filling their water buffaloes there, with their still contaminated water. Now I don’t know if I can trust anything but commercially bottled water. Nine days after this all started, after WVAWC flushing the mains, and after flushing our pipes, our tap water still stinks. I find myself wondering, was this all an accident, or was there some sort of sabotage involved, someone deliberately doing something to cause this spill? And was it all planned?
And now Freedom Industries is going to duck all responsibility for contaminating a third of West Virginia’s public water supply by filing for bankruptcy? In other countries people would be hanged for less than this, but apparently Freedom Industries is instead going to be handed a “get out of jail free” card. I don’t agree with a lot of what comes across MSNBC, but this time I think they hit the nail on the head.
Flushing with sprinkler heads? Do you mean they’re flushing contaminated water into the street which then runs into the storm sewers that run back into the river? God Almighty, you poor folks down there are sooo screwed.
Those responsible are due an old fashioned “Tar and Feathering” Then road out on a flat car so the whole country can see them.
Hasnt anyone even considered the strength of the evidence pointing to another false flag incident? So they dodge the monetary bullet, will these violators even be prosecuted? Probably not in West Virginia. I know California is a bit over the top but had it occurred there these people would already be in jail.
You know, I mean, you absolutely know they had liability insurance. That is the first question I would have asked early on, “Who is their insurer and what are the limits of liability?” Surely, SURELY the State of West Virginia requires such industries to have liability insurance. This could point out the instability of some insurance company, leading to the government having an excuse to take over the insurance business…..just sayin
They had inadequate liability insurance.
US House passed bill ravaging toxic-waste law – on same day as W. Virginia chemical spill. RT
Cut-n-paste will take you to an opinion that suggests there is little to no chance that anyone will be held accountable. Your lot expunged that bit from the statutes.
This would not be happening if we had strong laws against such shenanigans. But lawmakers have been working for decades to eliminate such laws, cripple agencies that should be protecting us, and put industry psychopaths in positions of power. We have to demand their immediate removal, with direct action including protests in the streets, strong pressure on lawmakers, civil disobedience, and other nonviolent means.
None of this will happen, unfortunately, until enough people are hurting enough. That may be coming down the pike, at the rate we’re being poisoned, but we have a long history of suffering without adequate action.
I agree with all of that.
@usefuleater, Not sure why you got all bent, my point was when do we start making our own decisions? If she says no then even though your gut says yes would you still listen to her? Your original post said you read that this has been leaking for over a month and then you ask if you should be stocking up on bottled water? That’s a no-brainer don’t ya think? Give yourself some credit.