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ORIGINAL: MercTech
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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
Why anyone believes that businesses are trustworthy in their hazardous waste disposal, is way beyond me.
Businesses conform to legislation with government oversight. Some try to cut corners but get caught. Some are fined into bankruptcy when caught violating the rules.
Nice side-stepping of the question. What happens when regulations are removed? Some businesses stick to good, honest, business models to produce profits. Others side-step and cut corners that are often hazardous or dangerous (or both). All in an effort to produce profits. An often times, those companies run into the whole gambit of problems. We only hear of the ones that can not be ignored.
Like the recent chemical planet exploding in Texas. The one that should not have exploded if Gov. Rick Perry and Republicans has not removed regulations just a few short years earlier.
Or the oil rig that exploded off the coast of New Orleans a few years ago. That caught fire and the whole structure sunk. But not before rupturing a pipe sending enough oil as to be seen from the cost of Texas to the Florida Panhandle. Regulations were removed back in 2003-2005 that would have prevented the series of events from talking place.
When profit trumps good business sense, its fair idea to start logging all your actions that show you were not only against this, but were trying to keep things from sinking further. Because when the explosion takes place, being fired will be the least of your problems!
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ORIGINAL: MercTech
The biggest offenders in improper waste disposal are government facilities. They can't seem to play by the rules that the civilian sector does. DOE didn't even have an official radiation protection program until 1995 and they were the people building nuclear weapons.
Cite a source here.
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ORIGINAL: MercTech
Everywhere, and I mean EACH AND EVERY SITE, where the federal government has been involved in handling hazardous material (1989 and prior most certainly) has ended up on the RCRA and CIRCLA lists. Everywhere the federal government as worked with radioactive material is on the superfund cleanup list.
Go figure as that is part of the mandate of the EPA. When a business screws up its waste, the government has to step in, because we created laws that forces them to step in. That you try to blame the government for everything, while giving private citizens and businesses a pass on guilt. That says to me 'your not being objective'. 'Non-Objective' people are easy to spot. They are the ones pushing political agendas that do not make rational sense.
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ORIGINAL: MercTech
The federal bureaucracy has proven over and over and over to be incompetent at directly managing any project requiring technical expertise or a project that could present a hazard to the public. Even contracting out to low bid contractors is better than allowing Washington Wankers to try and manage a project.
Funny how you flatly ignore when businesses creating problems the government has to solve. You hate the government and apparently will try anything and everything to undermine it. While at the same time ignoring the role businesses placed in the matter.
Its the businesses that created the problem in the first place. Funny how you ignore that. That you have problems that the government has to deal with someone else's fuck ups. Yet, do not feel the businesses, and the top people of who ran those businesses should be held accountible. Typical conservative 'government trashing' bullshit.....
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