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truedelphi

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3. Huh?

Thu Feb 13, 2014, 05:44 PM

Feb 2014

You are aware that the cleverly crafted Oil and Big Energy "Reform" Measure that came about in 2005, and was probably mostly authored by Dick Cheney and his henchmen, actually removed various protections that had traditionally forced energy companies to assume liabilities for whatever damages they were responsible for. Those protections were among the items that kept this nation from being similar to a third world nation.

And Congress was under Democratic control from Jan 2007 to January 2011, so if at any point in that time any of our elected puppetry members had wanted to change this, and put the onus on the Big Energy firms themselves, it could have been done.

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West Virginia wants more disaster funding, FEMA says no [View all] okaawhatever Feb 2014 OP

Asshole Gov. wasted time and money while endangering lives. It's his duty to fund it now. nt TheBlackAdder Feb 2014 #1

Huh? truedelphi Feb 2014 #3

West Virginia's DEP is owned by the coal companies and that's the real problem nt geek tragedy Feb 2014 #20

Last time I looked, West Virginia is inside the USA. truedelphi Feb 2014 #37

And WV is responsible for those Bush-Cheney geek tragedy Feb 2014 #38

Wasted time and money? What do you mean? I haven't been paying a lot of attention. nt okaawhatever Feb 2014 #5

By not deploying HazMat Teams, allowing the spread, telling folks to decide the water safety, etc. TheBlackAdder Feb 2014 #9

Maybe it does not work this way there nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #13

So WV does not have an Dept. of Environmental Protection Response Team either? nt TheBlackAdder Feb 2014 #15

That is different than a hazmat team nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #22

Oh thanks for that. I wasn't aware of a delayed response. I knew that Freedom industries didn't okaawhatever Feb 2014 #29

Damn that George W Bush. truedelphi Feb 2014 #2

Hey, they wanted Obama's EPA to get out of WV. geek tragedy Feb 2014 #4

I guess I am not following your logic. DURHAM D Feb 2014 #6

Nonsense. FEMA has responded to plenty of manmade disasters. KamaAina Feb 2014 #26

From you link - DURHAM D Feb 2014 #28

Exactly, and FEMA is supposed to help when the disaster is greater than the state's capacity to okaawhatever Feb 2014 #33

A poisoned water supply isn't an emergency?? Brigid Feb 2014 #7

That is not the issue. DURHAM D Feb 2014 #8

And the company that produced and stored the coal waste water. no_hypocrisy Feb 2014 #10

Yes. They should be 100% responsible but DURHAM D Feb 2014 #11

According to wikipedia's FEMA entry, Brigid Feb 2014 #12

I don't. DURHAM D Feb 2014 #14

I think you would change your tune real quick . . . Brigid Feb 2014 #16

Why don't you hold the government of WV responsible? DURHAM D Feb 2014 #18

This has gone beyond what the third poorest state in the country can do. Brigid Feb 2014 #21

Oh please. WV gets more handouts from the federal government than 90% of other states geek tragedy Feb 2014 #23

That is an older chart you're showing. The last one I saw had all top ten "givers" as blue states okaawhatever Feb 2014 #34

Ah, you are correct. But, WV is definitely geek tragedy Feb 2014 #36

Sure, every state wants someone else to pay for their problems geek tragedy Feb 2014 #19

it's not a bailout fund, it's a response team. there are no longer evacuations etc geek tragedy Feb 2014 #17

Visit WV and you will see thousands and thousands of signs doc03 Feb 2014 #24

they voted for George W Bush and Dick Cheney over Al Gore and John Kerry geek tragedy Feb 2014 #25

I am not condemning the whole state, I was born there and my mother doc03 Feb 2014 #31

Gov. Tomblin on Energy and Oil KansDem Feb 2014 #27

Why isn't the company that caused the disaster responsible for the clean-up costs? justiceischeap Feb 2014 #30

The company filed bankruptcy. I think the question will be how much insurance they had in place. okaawhatever Feb 2014 #35

And the right thing is a REGULATION that requires that companies carry sufficient insurance to Squinch Feb 2014 #39

Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-party of crony capitalists), just contact your contributors: freshwest Feb 2014 #32