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Cigar
12-22-2015, 08:15 AM
In October, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder announced that the city of Flint would change its water source. This was in response to the discovery that temporarily pulling water from a local river produced high levels of lead in the water supply for Flint, aneconomically struggling community of 100,000 residents roughly an hour northwest of Detroit.


It was a crisis months in the making. Problems began as soon as officials decided in April 2014 to have Flint stop using Detroit’s water system and begin drawing water from the Flint River.


This was billed as a measure that would save millions of dollars. But residents almost immediately raised concerns about the discolored and smelly water that was flowing from their taps. Tests revealed high levels of chemicals that could cause liver or kidney problems, and some complained of losing hair and getting rashes after drinking the water.


In response to the growing backlash and the evidence that residents were drinking poisoned water, state and city officials sought to quell concerns, insisting the water was safe to drink and continually disputing local studies published this fall that showed lead levels sharply increased (http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/04/flint-michigan-lead-water-children-health)in the bloodstreams of Flint residents, including children. (Research suggests that lead can cause irreversible cognitive and developmental damage to children.)


But even as Snyder and other state officials relented, a question has continued to linger among activists and residents with children who could face life-altering circumstances as a result of lead poisoning: Who’s to blame for this mess?

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/12/whos-responsible-for-poisoning-flints-water-supply.html

Yea right, All Lives Matter ... :rollseyes:

zelmo1234
12-22-2015, 08:51 AM
Well yes if the people that Flint Hired to treat and clean the water were not following the federal guidelines and the water contained Lead and mercury. then you have to stop them form doing that.


Flint is a terrible city devastated by free trade agreements and Unions. they tear down about 1500 homes a year and the city officials will not create the conditions needed to see new investment into the city.

Not surprising that they cut corners everywhere

Common
12-22-2015, 08:52 AM
THis is a simple question with a one word answer. CORPORATIONS poisoned the water.

zelmo1234
12-22-2015, 09:03 AM
THis is a simple question with a one word answer. CORPORATIONS poisoned the water.

GM is the one that poisoned the water and were freed from any liability when the Bamster allowed them to go bust.

Mac-7
12-22-2015, 10:34 AM
Well yes if the people that Flint Hired to treat and clean the water were not following the federal guidelines and the water contained Lead and mercury. then you have to stop them form doing that.


Flint is a terrible city devastated by free trade agreements and Unions. they tear down about 1500 homes a year and the city officials will not create the conditions needed to see new investment into the city.

Not surprising that they cut corners everywhere

If obumer must have terrorists from syria send them all to Flint.

Tahuyaman
12-22-2015, 11:26 AM
Who’s responsible for poisoning Flint’s water supply?
lets see, who's responsible? Bush, Rove, Reagan, Trump? Maybe Cheney?

who?

donttread
12-22-2015, 03:03 PM
Megacorps are . For freedom to live the megacorps must die. Let it go much longer and Monsanto will patent and own the seed while Hershey does the same with potable water

waltky
04-20-2016, 02:42 AM
Granny says, "Dat's right - `bout time...
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Officials: 3 to be charged in Flint water crisis
April 20, 2016 — Michigan's attorney general will announce criminal charges Wednesday against two state regulators and a Flint employee, alleging wrongdoing related to the city's lead-tainted water crisis, according to government officials familiar with the investigation.


The charges — the first levied in a probe that is expected to broaden — will be filed against a pair of state Department of Environmental Quality officials and a local water treatment plant supervisor, two officials told The Associated Press late Tuesday. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly. The felony and misdemeanor charges include violating Michigan's drinking water law, official misconduct, destruction of utility property and evidence tampering, according to one official. For nearly 18 months after Flint's water source was switched while the city was under state financial management, residents drank and bathed with improperly treated water that coursed through aging pipes and fixtures, releasing toxic lead. Republican Gov. Rick Snyder announced in October that the city would return from the Flint River to its earlier source of treated water, the Detroit municipal system. But by that time, dangerously high levels of the toxic metal had been detected in the blood of some residents, including children, for whom it can cause lower IQs and behavioral problems.

The city has been under a state of emergency for more than four months, and people there are using filters and bottled water. In January, Republican Attorney General Bill Schuette opened an investigation and appointed a special counsel to lead the probe because his office also is defending Snyder and others in lawsuits filed over the water crisis. The state investigation team has more than 20 outside attorneys and investigators and a budget of $1.5 million. Schuette, Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton, special counsel Todd Flood and other investigators scheduled a news conference for Wednesday afternoon in Flint to make a "significant" announcement, according to an advisory distributed to the media. A spokesman for Schuette's office declined comment Tuesday night.

In addition to the lead contamination, outside experts also have suggested a link between the Flint River and a deadly Legionnaires' disease outbreak. There were at least 91 cases, including 12 deaths, across Genesee County, which contains Flint, during a 17-month period. That represents a five-fold increase over what the county averaged before. The failure to deploy lead corrosion controls after the city's switch to the Flint River is considered a catastrophic mistake. The DEQ has acknowledged misreading federal regulations and wrongly telling the city that the chemicals were not needed. State officials were slow to respond to experts' and residents' concerns. After the crisis broke open, DEQ Director Dan Wyant and the department's communications director Brad Wurfel resigned.

Snyder announced the firing of Liane Shekter Smith, the former chief of the DEQ's Office of Drinking Water and Municipal Assistance. A district supervisor in the office, Stephen Busch, is on paid leave after being suspended earlier. Mike Prysby, a district engineer, recently took another job in the agency. A supervisor at Flint's water plant, Mike Glasgow, testified at a legislative hearing that Prysby told him phosphate was not needed to prevent lead corrosion from pipes until after a year of testing. Susan Hedman, the director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Chicago-based Midwest office, also resigned.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/officials-3-charged-flint-water-crisis-030525719.html?ref=gs

Tahuyaman
04-24-2016, 07:43 PM
If obumer must have terrorists from syria send them all to Flint.

Thats actually a good idea.

Captain Obvious
04-24-2016, 07:54 PM
Flint's voters

Tahuyaman
04-24-2016, 08:10 PM
Eeevil capitalists are responsible.

Subdermal
04-24-2016, 11:23 PM
Well, according the scapegoating asscoverers in Flint, apparently only three people are.

AeonPax
04-25-2016, 01:08 AM
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HoneyBadger
04-25-2016, 01:44 AM
Government stupidity caused Flint's water crisis:

http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i7/Lead-Ended-Flints-Tap-Water.html

Captain Obvious
04-25-2016, 05:31 AM
Genocide lol.

I guess if Flint were mostly white this guy wouldn't have made that comment.

Safety
04-25-2016, 05:55 AM
That goes for a lot of comments made....

Subdermal
04-25-2016, 09:42 AM
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I think it's possible to train dogs with memes and bumper stickers. You provide supporting evidence.

Mark III
04-25-2016, 01:17 PM
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Good point.

Cigar
04-25-2016, 01:46 PM
Another HUGE Settlement is eventually on it's way ... and that's going to piss-off some people around here.

Captain Obvious
04-25-2016, 02:39 PM
Good point.

The forum bedshitter likes it.

Makes sense.

stjames1_53
04-25-2016, 06:25 PM
THis is a simple question with a one word answer. CORPORATIONS poisoned the water.

it sure wasn't the taxpayers, but I'll give ya three guesses who's gonna pay for it