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hobbit709

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5. back in the 70s there was an environmental activist who sloshed a bucketful of waste discharge

Reply to livingwagenow (Original post)

Sat Jul 27, 2013, 09:06 AM

Jul 2013

from some factury on one of the execs there. They tried to charge him with using a toxic substance. His defense was that it came out of the discharge pipe into the river and the company insisted there was nothing bad in it.

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My sentiments exactly! nt livingwagenow Jul 2013 #14

back in the 70s there was an environmental activist who sloshed a bucketful of waste discharge hobbit709 Jul 2013 #5

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That's quite telling. Thanks for sharing. nt livingwagenow Jul 2013 #13

I remember hearing about that but had forgot. It happened so long ago. livingwagenow Jul 2013 #12

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