[net-gold] DISASTERS: CHEMICAL SPILLS : RIVERS : WATER : UNITED STATES: STATES: WEST VIRGINIA : WATER POLUTION : ENVIRONMENT: POLLUTION : ENERGY : HEALTH: ISSUES : BUSINESS: COMPANINES: NAMED COMPANIES: FREEDOM INDUSTRIES: Meet Freedom Industries, the Company Behind the West Virginia Chemical Spill
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- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 07:56:04 -0500 (EST)
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DISASTERS: CHEMICAL SPILLS :
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Meet Freedom Industries,
the Company Behind the West Virginia Chemical Spill
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Meet Freedom Industries,
the Company Behind the West Virginia Chemical Spill
By Paul M. Barrett
January 13, 2014
Bloomberg
Business Week
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-13/
meet-freedom-industries-the-company-behind-the-west-virginia-spill
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/pxavqss
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How long has this outfit been around?
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About two weeks, in its current form. Freedom Industries is the product of
a merger effective Dec. 31, 2013, that combined Etowah River Terminal, the
facility where the leak occurred, Crete Technologies, and Poca Blending,
located in nearby Nitro. A predecessor company called Freedom Industries
was formed in 1986, according to our colleagues at Bloomberg News. How the
pieces of the newly formed mini-conglomerate fit together merits urgent
inquiry, as does the question of whether theres any connection between the
corporate mash-up and the fateful opening of a one-inch hole that allowed
a noxious chemical to escape.
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Whos behind Freedom Industries?
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Gary Southern, company president, has been speaking on behalf of Freedom.
Legal filings show that Southern is also the president of a company called
Enviromine Inc., which supplies environmental chemistries and services to
coal companies.
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At the same time, Freedoms website list Dennis P. Farrell as president.
That clearly needs sorting out. According to the Charleston Gazette,
Farrell was the organizer of Etowah River Terminal, the Freedom facility
where the seepage occurred.
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Anybody else interesting behind Freedom Industries?
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Well, yes. State records in West Virginia show that a man named Carl L.
Kennedy II joined Gary Southern in forming the company years ago. A
well-known restaurant owner and man-about-town in Charleston, according to
the Gazette, Kennedy is a twice-convicted felon. The paper reported on
Sunday that he pleaded guilty in federal court in West Virginia in 2005 to
tax evasion and was sentenced to three years in prison, a penalty that was
reduced after he agreed to wear a wire and make controlled cocaine buys in
a separate investigation. Kennedy had some background in the cocaine
field; in 1987 he pleaded guilty to selling between 10 and 12 ounces of
cocaine in connection with a scandal that toppled then-Charleston Mayor
Mike Roark, the Gazette explained. Kennedy apparently no longer works at
Freedom Industries.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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