The EPA's claim that water is "safe" to drink was based on lab tests done by the rail company that caused the disaster. The EPA has still not tested independently.
We are. We're seeing the adverse effects even west of East Palestine. Our air quality index readings are off the scale! Neither Federal nor state government care about the public's health or safety. They're just busy covering for the corporations who caused the toxic plume in the first place.
It’s the same thing with the FDA and CDC, which have become nothing more than federal marketing divisions for the pharmaceutical companies. Mandating a vaccine that prevents neither illness nor transmission for a segment of the population that is at nearly zero risk of serious illness from the virus the vaccine targets is about profit, nothing more.
Meanwhile in Alberta, Canada, we just had a 5300 cubic metre overland spill from a toxic oilsands tailings pond , the largest yet. At this time it also came to light that this tailings pond had been leaking into the groundwater for months. Imperial Oil and the Alberta Energy Regulator had met in secret but failed to warn local First Nations who live and hunt on this land. https://globalnews.ca/news/9523133/alberta-band-chief-imperial-oil-kearl-oilsands-tailings-spill-silence/
It's like putting the wolf in charge of the hen house, isn't it? Neither Norfolk Southern nor our federal or state EPAs have the heath and safety of the American public at heart. They're all busy working up their cover stories as to how none of it is their fault. If there was ever a time to expose capitalism for the evil that it is, this derailment and consequent toxic chemical burn is it. "Privatize the profits, socialize the costs--and keep the public in the dark," is the creed of capitalists everywhere. Time for them to go.
The people of Ohio should be very angry.
We are. We're seeing the adverse effects even west of East Palestine. Our air quality index readings are off the scale! Neither Federal nor state government care about the public's health or safety. They're just busy covering for the corporations who caused the toxic plume in the first place.
It’s the same thing with the FDA and CDC, which have become nothing more than federal marketing divisions for the pharmaceutical companies. Mandating a vaccine that prevents neither illness nor transmission for a segment of the population that is at nearly zero risk of serious illness from the virus the vaccine targets is about profit, nothing more.
Meanwhile in Alberta, Canada, we just had a 5300 cubic metre overland spill from a toxic oilsands tailings pond , the largest yet. At this time it also came to light that this tailings pond had been leaking into the groundwater for months. Imperial Oil and the Alberta Energy Regulator had met in secret but failed to warn local First Nations who live and hunt on this land. https://globalnews.ca/news/9523133/alberta-band-chief-imperial-oil-kearl-oilsands-tailings-spill-silence/
It's like putting the wolf in charge of the hen house, isn't it? Neither Norfolk Southern nor our federal or state EPAs have the heath and safety of the American public at heart. They're all busy working up their cover stories as to how none of it is their fault. If there was ever a time to expose capitalism for the evil that it is, this derailment and consequent toxic chemical burn is it. "Privatize the profits, socialize the costs--and keep the public in the dark," is the creed of capitalists everywhere. Time for them to go.