DuPont lawyer edited DEP's C8 media releases

[wallybarron]

In early March 2002, state environmental regulators planned to warn Wood County residents that the toxic chemical C8 was spreading across the area through air emissions from DuPont Co.’s Parkersburg plant.

“It is increasingly likely that the chemical is being spread in several ways — in groundwater, in the soil and now by air,” said a draft news release written by then-Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Andy Gallagher.

But the public never got that news. The DEP killed its release after complaints from a DuPont lawyer, according to records obtained under the federal Freedom of Information Act.

http://www.wvgazette.com/section/News/2005070236?pt=0

[Lasher]

1. Fox Guarding Henhouse

Wally,

This is shocking. I wonder how many similar sleeping arrangements our state government has had, and has now?

The worst I can ever remember is when Arch Moore sold out Buffalo Creek survivors, and all other West Virginians, to Pittston Coal.

http://www.wvculture.org/history/arcmoore.html

[Hubert Flottz]

2. I've worked in DuPont's plants and they always tell you...

"There ain't anything in this place that will hurt you!"

The chemical plants here around Charleston ran all the skilled union people off twenty years ago and started hiring people off the street. Unskilled Brown&Root(cheap Labor)people that didn't know bullsh*t from apple butter, started taking care of chemicals and high pressure chemical processing equipment in this valley that could kill tens of thousands of people! It's about like letting the local barbers and fry cooks start doing brain surgery on we the people. The horrid disaster in Bhopal, India, back in 1984 never taught the "experts"(bean counters)in those plants a damned thing!

Bhopal Disaster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

It's not always the "big bang" that gets you around these plants, but usually some strange form of cancer. Bush fixed it so that the "Superfund" is paid for 100% by the taxpayers now! The pResident has let all the chemical corporations in the US off the hook. When it comes to cleaning up abandoned toxic chemical waste sites now, the guilty don't pay...YOU DO.

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Here is how Union Carbide, now Dow Chemical is working with...

it's MIC disaster victims in India! The things at this website I'm posting below are SHOCKING and sad!

http://www.bhopal.net/clean_up_index.html

main page

http://www.bhopal.net/

Folks, the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, is the "sister Plant" of the plant built and operated by Union Carbide, at Institute WV. As far as I know Bayer Crop Science, who is now operating that plant, still has tons of chemicals like MIC stashed here in the valley.