I think this story is a stark reminder of the existence of environmental externalities. Just curious, what country are you in? In the US we have state agencies

I think this story is a stark reminder of the existence of environmental externalities. Just curious, what country are you in? In the US we have state agencies to address this, such as OSHA for worker safety, DEC and EPA (for now?) for environmental standards, research, and monitoring, federal super-fund to insure/internalize cost of abandoned site clean up, etc. Not perfect, but better then what's described in TFA.