. . DISASTERS: CHEMICAL SPILLS : RIVERS : WATER : UNITED STATES: STATES: WEST VIRGINIA : WATER POLUTION : ENVIRONMENT: POLLUTION : ENERGY : HEALTH: ISSUES : BUSINESS: COMPANINES: NAMED COMPANIES: FREEDOM INDUSTRIES: Businesses Want Strong Water Regulations . . Businesses Want Strong Water Regulations February 11, 2014 By Rachel Molenda Charleston Gazette http://www.wvgazette.com/Business/201402110185 . .CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- More than 60 businesses have signed a letter supporting the passage and enforcement of legislation that would aim to better protect West Virginia's waterways in the wake of the January chemical spill that shut down businesses and left 300,000 people without potable water for more than a week.
."I believe big businesses' right to do business should not detrimentally affect small businesses' right to do business," said Jennifer Pettigrew Burns, one campaign organizer and owner of Ms. Groovy's Catering on the city's West Side.
.Businesses have a responsibility to act in the best interests of the public, something that didn't happen when Freedom Industries -- the company storing Crude MCHM -- allowed the coal-processing chemical to leak into the Elk River last month, Burns said.
."Freedom Industries, for whatever reason, did not maintain their facility in a way that prevented their tanks from leaking," Burns said. "That's just the right thing to do as a business, is to maintain your facility, especially when you're holding toxic chemicals that could get in our waterway."
.The letter outlines a number of concerns business owners have, such as "danger activities" upstream from drinking water sources; lack of confidence in planning and prevention procedures; loopholes in state law regarding aboveground storage tank inspections.
.Those signing the letter are asking Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and state lawmakers to "correct ... regulatory shortfall to instill confidence in the tourists, businesses and talent that we want to come into the state."
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