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20. West Virginia's DEP is owned by the coal companies and that's the real problem nt

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Thu Feb 13, 2014, 06:21 PM

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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