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Not OP but, half truth is here "remains in complete compliance with all requirements of its state-issued wastewater discharge permit" and yet... "Neither hexava
by giarc 6mo ago
Not OP but, half truth is here "remains in complete compliance with all requirements of its state-issued wastewater discharge permit" and yet... "Neither hexavalent chromium nor arsenic appears in Tesla’s TCEQ discharge permit as an allowable pollutant." Both which were found in the waste water. The original test did not test for those, so I guess what the guy was saying was true at a time?
- semiquaver 6mo agoThe permit also didn’t list strawberry bubblegum. The levels of these pollutants were found to be similar to background levels. Where do you think arsenic comes from? If the Texas regulators are asleep at the wheel then be mad at them. Businesses are guided by laws, but there’s no allegation any laws were broken. I’m no Tesla partisan but this just feels like mindless ragebait.
- john_strinlai 6mo agoneat trick is to realize you dont have to pick sides. you can get mad at tesla for dumping wastewater with stuff they dont have a permit for, and you can be mad at the regulators failing to regulate.
- semiquaver 6mo agoBut there is no evidence that they are dumping stuff they don’t have a permit for. Finding 1% over background levels in a sample tells you literally nothing. Industrial waste is called such for a reason.
- john_strinlai 6mo ago>But there is no evidence that they are dumping stuff they don’t have a permit for well, except for the hexavalent chromium and arsenic findings. but yeah, more testing is needed, and the article is premature.
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- xg15 6mo ago> Industrial waste is called such for a reason. Which is why you shouldn't dump it in a river used for fishing? (Or any river for that matter)
- foxglacier 6mo agoI don't think you understand that people pee lithium into their toilets too. But you didn't just read an article riling you up to being mad at the municipal sewage industry so you aren't mad at it at the moment.
- xg15 6mo agoYes, and you shouldn't dump untreated municipal wastewater into rivers either? That's what we have treatment plants for. I don't get what that has to do with anything.
- lazide 6mo agoThe treatment plants discharge water with waaay higher levels of exactly what everyone is complaining about here.
- drak0n1c 6mo agoOr you can get mad at journalist-bloggers for writing unscientific selective fearmongering hit pieces catering to culture-war-polarized confirmation biases.