Teck Resources Admits Polluting Columbia River For 100 Years; Damage To Be Assessed

[rsweets]

hey ... corporations are people too ..
They just don't have to drink the water

Specifically, the company made a legal admission that: "Trail discharged solid effluent, or slag, and liquid effluent into the Columbia River that came to rest in Washington state, and from that material, hazardous materials under (U.S. environmental laws) were released into the environment," Dave Godlewski, vice-president of environment and public affairs for Teck American, said in a telephone interview. The discharges date from 1896 to 1995.|






[link:http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/09/10/teck-columbia-river-pollution_n_1871034.html|

[xchrom]

1. Du rec. Nt

[Scuba]

2. If we could just get rid of these job-killing regulations then this wouldn't be a crime.

The government turning hard-working job creators into criminals. See? Government is the problem.















sarcasm thingy here