Reply #5: 30 years ago my parents fought this same battle in Oklahoma

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Couldn't get a jury to fix anything since so many were employed by oil companies. The EPA was bought off.

My dad said you couldn't expect anything from a state with an oil well on it's capital. He said it was a shrine so the politicians could bow down to it.

We have hundreds of hours of tapes with their conversations on it. When it looked like it would rain they told their guys in the field to "cut the dikes" and dump the sludge in the creek. By the way, that creek went right into Lake Texoma, no way I'd eat a fish from there.

If that weren't bad enough, when they did fill up a tanker with sludge, they'd get out the front gate, open the pet cock and drive around on public roads until everything leaked out. That way they wouldn't have to pay to dump it.