Plug pipe.
Wait nearby for repair crew & arrest them.
Repeat.
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Don't even wait for the drainage district to do it. What's Tesla going to do, sue you for blocking their illegal dumping?
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.
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.
Don't hold the multi trillionaire accountable tho
Let's charge them a comically small fine, that'll teach them not to do it again!
$5
This is what motherfickers do when there's no consequences for breaking the law
If our government isn't up to holding criminals responsible, then it needs to be replaced root to stem.
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.
Said pipe:
That's comically evil, except it's not funny.
At a rate of like 2 and a half gallons of that sludge a second.
I like this take. More shit needs to be not funny.
For some reason I was expecting it to be fully submerged underground at least until the ditch
This article links to another article that has it on video and photographed. You can see the clearly black liquid flowing into the clear water in the drainage ditch. Helps to click the link and read the article!
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Why bother with expensive waste disposing process when you can just dump it somewhere.
Externalities make the capitalism go round
We towed it outside the environment
It's been towed beyond the environment, it's not in an environment... all there is out there is sea, birds, fish, and 20,000 tons of crude oil.
Deregulated Red Run Oblast problems and the voters continue to support it. "Ain't shit gonna happen to the dirty neo-Nazi." Good luck with the lack of potable water situation you morons.
It's Texas so nobody will do anything
They do love their pipelines of black liquids in Texas.
Texas Tea
You have just helped me to understand a decades old joke. Thank you.
Which is why he moved there in the first place
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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
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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
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