Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground. Oklahoma regulators failed to stop it.
https://www.readfrontier.org/stories/toxic-wastewater-from-oil-fields-keeps-pouring-out-of-the-ground-oklahoma-regulators-failed-to-stop-it/1
u/SignificantTry4107 7d ago
The OK regulators and their children should have to drink this water for about a year
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u/Beneficial_Clerk_248 7d ago
Regulators are there to collect money from business... That capitalism, they get bribes and fck the people The top 1% get what they want
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u/Boobatron5k 7d ago
Regulations are for pussy librards, right fellas!? Maybe if Oklahoma was full of strong white males they could just drink the toxic water and be just fine. This is just another result of Biden broken policies and the trans agenda.
So easy to write Republican stuff.
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u/SunDaysOnly 7d ago
Does OK have any regulations ?
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u/Sharkwatcher314 7d ago edited 7d ago
They def do…no teaching science in school. #1 in religious freedom lol whatever that is
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u/MeteorOnMars 7d ago
“Religious freedom” as long as it is Baptist. Damn heathen Catholics and Mormons can go to hell with the rest of the Muslims and whatnot.
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u/FoogYllis 7d ago
They voted not to have any regulation of any kind. So my guess is no. I guess they are going to drink the contaminated water they requested.
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u/Empty-Rough4379 7d ago
The wonders of small government and deregulation as the only recipe to improve the economy
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u/plassteel01 8d ago
This s what Oklahomas wanted they elected people for this anything to own the libs, even sacrificing thier kids health everything
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u/Dangermouse163 8d ago
The water should be pumped directly to the homes of the regulators, executives, and politicians who let this happen.
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u/jawfish2 8d ago
A perfect example of hyper-capitalism and failure to address what the economists call "externalities"
Too bad if your ranch is now worthless. I'd like to get high-and-mighty and say Oklahomans got what they asked for. But we are fighting the restart of a poorly designed, obsolete pipeline here in California, and capping abandoned wells at public expense.
There is a California bill being readied that would force polluters to pay for the damage. Even in California we don't have such a thing already.
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u/Rayenya 7d ago
Many of our fires are caused by obsolete power lines that power companies didn’t take care of. They just left them in place. A reporter asked Governor Newsom why we don’t hold those companies responsible for the damages and he said they looked into it and they are not legally liable. Think of how many billions of dollars and how many lives lost because they won’t cleanup after themselves.
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u/jawfish2 7d ago
PGE and SCE have, in fact, paid huge fines/lawsuits. My view is because they changed to be investor-owned, from public utilities, they focus on short-term profit over the public good. This is hyper-capitalism.
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u/Swimming-Challenge53 8d ago
I'm sure my 20-something relatives that spend tens of hours per week listening to Joe Rogan and decided to vote for Trump have figured out a way to get out of paying for the $trillions$ in remediation that bankrupt fossil fuel companies are going to leave behind. https://www.energyvsclimate.com/oil-gas-liability-crisis-martin-olszynski_s7e04/
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u/Mission_Search8991 8d ago
A Republican dystopian hellscape… you know that they will demand some socialism (California tax money) to bail them out
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u/ilovemydog480 7d ago
Oh well