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EXPOSED: Koch Industries and Cancer Risk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZWAQ_3yoj8
While the (Koch) brothers wage war against safety precautions, every day their factory is dumping millions of gallons
of wastewater into streams that flow near a small rural town in Arkansas.
"....the town of Crossett, Arkansas and focuses on a community of residents on Penn Road. Among 15 families, there have been at least 11 deaths from cancer, and many more people are ill. The source of their anguish seems to be coming from a foul smelling canal of water, steaming with toxic pollutants, that runs through the woods near their homes."
October 10, 2011
...."the town's only manufacturer and main employer: Georgia Pacific. A Koch Industries subsidiary,
Georgia Pacific is a plywood, paper mill and formaldehyde resin plant that has been dumping
millions of gallons of wastewater into open ditches."
"The cruel irony is that while Crossett residents mourn the loss of their family members and neighbors to cancer,
David Koch -- a cancer survivor himself -- has donated hundreds of millions to cancer research."
http://www.alternet.org/media/15268...e_kochs_and_a_small_community_dying_of_cancer
On Aug. 24, 1996, Danielle Smalley and her high school friend and neighbor Jason Stone, both 17,
smelled gas outside Smalley’s mobile home in rural Lively, Texas, 50 miles southeast of Dallas.
The truck stalled after the couple drove into a fog-like cloud, says Danielle’s father, Danny Smalley,
who watched them drive away. It was butane vapor, leaking from a corroded steel pipeline.
Seconds later, as Danielle restarted the truck, the gas ignited into a fireball,
burning Danielle and Jason to death.
The 570-mile-long pipeline carrying liquid butane from Medford, Oklahoma, to Mont Belvieu,
Texas had corroded so badly that one expert, Edward Ziegler, likened it to Swiss cheese.
A memo forwarded by Caffey to another Koch executive vice president justified putting a 70-mile section
of the pipeline back into operation after being closed for three years because it could earn
more than $7 million in operating income a year.
The state jury awarded Danny Smalley $296 million in its Oct. 21, 1999, verdict.
The jury found that Koch Industries acted with malice because it had been aware
of the extreme risks of using the faulty pipeline.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...aw-getting-richer-with-secret-iran-sales.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZWAQ_3yoj8
While the (Koch) brothers wage war against safety precautions, every day their factory is dumping millions of gallons
of wastewater into streams that flow near a small rural town in Arkansas.
"....the town of Crossett, Arkansas and focuses on a community of residents on Penn Road. Among 15 families, there have been at least 11 deaths from cancer, and many more people are ill. The source of their anguish seems to be coming from a foul smelling canal of water, steaming with toxic pollutants, that runs through the woods near their homes."
October 10, 2011
...."the town's only manufacturer and main employer: Georgia Pacific. A Koch Industries subsidiary,
Georgia Pacific is a plywood, paper mill and formaldehyde resin plant that has been dumping
millions of gallons of wastewater into open ditches."
"The cruel irony is that while Crossett residents mourn the loss of their family members and neighbors to cancer,
David Koch -- a cancer survivor himself -- has donated hundreds of millions to cancer research."
http://www.alternet.org/media/15268...e_kochs_and_a_small_community_dying_of_cancer
On Aug. 24, 1996, Danielle Smalley and her high school friend and neighbor Jason Stone, both 17,
smelled gas outside Smalley’s mobile home in rural Lively, Texas, 50 miles southeast of Dallas.
The truck stalled after the couple drove into a fog-like cloud, says Danielle’s father, Danny Smalley,
who watched them drive away. It was butane vapor, leaking from a corroded steel pipeline.
Seconds later, as Danielle restarted the truck, the gas ignited into a fireball,
burning Danielle and Jason to death.
The 570-mile-long pipeline carrying liquid butane from Medford, Oklahoma, to Mont Belvieu,
Texas had corroded so badly that one expert, Edward Ziegler, likened it to Swiss cheese.
A memo forwarded by Caffey to another Koch executive vice president justified putting a 70-mile section
of the pipeline back into operation after being closed for three years because it could earn
more than $7 million in operating income a year.
The state jury awarded Danny Smalley $296 million in its Oct. 21, 1999, verdict.
The jury found that Koch Industries acted with malice because it had been aware
of the extreme risks of using the faulty pipeline.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...aw-getting-richer-with-secret-iran-sales.html
