[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 : UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM: Koch Connection to West Virginia Chemical Spill Company
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- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:41:16 -0500 (EST)
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Koch Connection to West Virginia Chemical Spill Company
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Koch Connection to West Virginia Chemical Spill Company
Tina Casey
Tuesday January 14th, 2014
Triple Pundit
http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/01/
koch-connection-west-virginia-chemical-spill-company/
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/mvxsmsh
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A chemical spill in West Virginia last week cut off access to safe tap
water across nine counties, and although it involved a chemical used by
the coal industry, state officials have been pushing back strongly against
suggestions by reporters that the disaster had anything to do with the
states dominant industry coal.
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However, the fact is that the chemical industry is also very important to
the West Virginia economy, and it is heavily entwined with the coal
industry, which requires a substantial quantity of chemicals at various
stages before it gets from the mine to its point of use.
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Clearly, the spill which affected 300,000 people and shut down
restaurants, schools, hospitals and hundreds of other businesses and
institutions is closely related to the states dependency on the coal
industry, despite protestations to the contrary.
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That, in turn, undermines the coal industrys insistent positioning of coal
as a clean fuel. While new technology has reduced pollutants from burning
coal, everything around the burn point is still status quo, from
destructive mining to fly ash disposal.
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With that scenario in mind, lets take a look at how the disaster is
playing out in the local paper, the Charleston Gazette (highly
recommended: follow reporter Ken Ward, Jr. on Twitter, @Kenwardjr).
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The West Virginia chemical spill and the Koch connection
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The industrialist Koch brothers have become notorious for their holdings
in coal and other fossil fuels, their aggressive promotion of global
warming denial and their efforts to monkeywrench environmental progress.
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What hasnt garnered as much attention is their involvement in secondary
industries on which the coal industry depends.
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Charleston Gazette reporter David Gutman tracked down the Koch connection
to the chemical spill in an article over the weekend titled Freedom
executive Kennedy had felonies.
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The full article is worth a read for the insights it provides about the
top executives for Freedom Industries, the company responsible for the
spill, but the relevant detail involves the source of the companys
chemicals.
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The spill involved Crude MCHM, a foaming agent used to clean coal.
According to Gutman, thats not the only coal-related chemical stored at
Freedom Industries. The company is also a distributor for a line of coal
processing chemicals called Talon, which is a product of the Koch company
Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Freedom executive Kennedy had felonies.
http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201401120056
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