Robots say they won’t rebel against humans as dozens gather at Switzerland summit.attorney has pledged to determine who is responsible, and numerous businesses have sued because they were forced to close and lost money until the water was safe again. The consequences from the spill - government investigations and lawsuits - mark the biggest crisis that Freedom Industries has faced in its nearly 22-year history since one of its founders went to prison on tax charges. The encounter between state officials and Freedom Industries provides a window into the little-known and lightly regulated firm whose spill of a coal-cleaning chemical contaminated the drinking water for West Virginia’s capital city. WATCH: Scientist warns lack of oversight led to chemical spill in West Virginia “When they approached the tank, (Farrell) said they just discovered a leak,” Jesse Adkins, the inspectors’ supervisor, said. A bag of absorbent material had been placed nearby and weighed down with a cinder block in a failed attempt to stop the flow.
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– When state inspectors showed up unannounced at Freedom Industries to investigate a licorice odour wafting across West Virginia’s capital city, company executive Dennis Farrell seemed to brush off any cause for concern.īut inspectors quickly found what was already contaminating the water for some 300,000 people: a chemical oozing from an above-ground tank and escaping through an old, cracked containment wall.
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