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W. Va. Chemical Leak: Gov. Tomblin To Residents: You Choose Water, Or No Water (VIDEOS)

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Many West Virginians continue paying a high human cost for government deregulation and cesspool politics, as Gov. Tomblin issued a statement giving them freedom to choose whether they use tainted water from Freedom Industries’ coal cleaning chemical or not.

As Occupy the Hollers noted Monday in their image of Janice Joplin, “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to drink’ in West Virginia.”

‘Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to drink’

Freedom Industries’ mystery chemical “Crude MCHM”, that leaked into the water supply of 300,000 people in 100,000 homes, was finally reported on Jan. 9.  A hazardous part of that chemical, the one that government is not testing, is sticking to insides of home water pipes and fixtures, and sickening many from fumes alone.

Federal and state officials are not giving the residents enough humanitarian aid, as seen in a press conference Monday.

Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin gave 300,000 state residents Monday a choice of whether they drink and use West Virginia American Water’s Elk River plant’s poisoned water after Freedom Industries’ tank leaked a mystery chemical “Crude MCHM” into it.
 
“In yet another amazing display of his leadership skills, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin, on whether West Virginians should drink the water, [said], ‘It’s your decision,’” Occupy The Hollers wrote on Facebook Monday.
 
“It’s your decision,” the governor told reporters at a press conference at the Capitol. “If you do not feel comfortable drinking or cooking with this water, then use bottled water.”
 
Do not ‘feel comfortable’?
 
“Discomfort’ reported by residents includes debilitating neurological disorders, even after just smelling the licorice odor still permeating homes and “poisoning them,” according to organic chemist Dr. Yuri Gorby, who spoke with Dupre Monday and a doctor interviewd by Mox News.
 
The water and pipes still carriy the licorice odor of the chemical, even after flushing systems several times, as the Charleston Gazette reported Monday after interviews with worried mothers.
 
Gorby said nobody should be using the water for anything, and that chemical fumes alone, being released from home water systems, are causing neurological problems, along with other illnesses. If the government cannot supply adequate water for drinking and hygeine, it should provide evacuation provisions, Gorby said.
 
 
Who has enough bottled water to drink, wash clothes and dishes and floors? What agency is providing the amount water needed to follow the governor’s former ”Don’t drink the water-Don’t bathe in it-Don’t use it in any way” warnings? 
 
West Virginia doctors are seeing patients with neurological disorders and other illnesses from the tainted air and water, as Mox News reports below during a Charleston doctor interview. 
 
Water company and state officials say the water is consistently testing below 1 part per million of the chemical, a coal cleaning product known as Crude MCHM. They, however, are not testing for presence the part of the chemical that is causing the most injuries, according to Dr. Gorby.
 

 
‘Ubelievable’ 
 
“I found it unbelievable,” Dr. Yuri Gorby told Deborah Dupré this weekend about vast amounts of coal and oil an dgas fracking industries’ chemicals recklessly transported around the state of West Virginia.

It’s been 23 years since any official looked at what Freedom Industries was doing down by the Elk River, according to one attorney with numerous fracking victim clients in the southern part of the state. 

Environmental attorney Stuart Smith says that “whether it’s the West Virginia state capital of Charleston or the corridors of Congress in Washington, D.C., there are legislators — many of them Republicans, but not all of them — who continue to insist that the problem is not too little regulation but too much.

“As a result, they are pushing for even fewer inspections, fewer laws and rules on the books, and fewer dollars for agencies like the EPA. That is a case of the free market — as presumably celebrated by the owners of Freedom Industries — being a little too free for my taste, and for yours.

Smith says West Virginia residents having poisoned water ”is clearly a case of the chickens coming home to roost.” 

To date, there have been no official evacuation provisions for West Virginians being poisoned.

Sources: Stuart Smith Blog, ABC News, Mox News, Personal interview with Dr. Yuri Gorby, Occupy The Hollers, Facebook,YouTube

Photo Credit: Occupy The Hollers

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    • Paul Brown

      Incredible. Massive occupation at the capitol is in order, including sit-ins in the offices of the executive branch.

    • crabby

      well, there’s really only one thing to do.. evac wv .. sorry about the peoples luck.. an since the land will just be sitting there.. frack it..

    • griffineagle7

      IVE SEEN AN ELECTRICAL ELEMENT THAT YOU CAN DIP IN YOUR GLASS OF WATER THAT NEUTRAULISES ANY CHEMICALS THE WATER COMPANIES HAVE PUT IN YOUR WATER eg..water thin-ners ..chemicals to make it look clear etc.etc ( you catch what ii am on about ) ?? …… YOU ARE GOING TO BE SHOCKED AND DISGUSTED .HORIFIED TO SEE WHAT YOU AND YOUR KIDS ARE DRINKING ..THEE ELECTRICAL PULSE REVEALS THAT ITS THICKER THAN WHAT YOU DRINK ..DIRTY, MUDDY , FOUL SMELLING AND I SWEAR YOU CAN BUY THIS TECHNOLIGY .BUT I DON’T KNOW WHAT ITS CALLED ..PLEASE RESEARCH AND LOOK IT UP ON THE NET ..I SAW IT DEMONSTRATED ON A ALTERNATIVE NEWS STATION ” ON THE EDGE” HAS I LIVE IN ENGLAND ..PLEASE BELIVE ME AND GOOD HEALTH TO YOU AND YOUR KIN >:-)

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