Quote (EndlessSky @ 1 Nov 2019 05:09)
This is illegal duh
not the point, not even close. obviously those spills don't happen on purpose. however, the more those industries get deregulated, the less they spend on maintenance, security, and material, making such incidents more likely - because it's simply cheaper to pay the fines for the spills that exceed the reportable volume than to make those pipelines as secure as possible.
but hey, who cares about all the land they ruin, right? the people who get rich from that don't live anywhere near their own pipelines and fracking fields, it's not their backyard and their drinking water that's being contaminated. profits are privatised, damages socialised, that's late stage capitalism for you. still better than 'windmill cancer', right?