we have a major environmental crisis going on right now
I in North Carolina that is going that's affecting Virginia
basically because of the way a river a leads to all over the news
it's all over everything I I
yet all over the news exactly know you're gonna have to get it here
so 82,000 hines up holes
slight edge is spilling for days now for about five days
into the Dan River in north carolina it's coming from the Duke
energy plant and basically a hole in the storm water drainage pipe
burst and its leading into the pond they don't know when it's going to be cleaned
up or even if they'll ever truly be able to dredge
the pond and get all the stuff add to their a and by the way coal ash
this is a great quote is quote known to contain a witches brew up toxic
chemicals
including lead arsenic mercury and radioactive
uranium again 82 thousand
times at this stuff and leaving right now no word from
the like I when you get a clean it up well
I don't know if we can got I did a little earlier thing they did not
they're not saying whether there was a link to it didn't have reasons to hate
Duke before
ok with that when everything to so this is going back to
you know the the problem with the West Virginia the freedom industries like
they're clearing that up be there nobody knows what to do one day they say drink
the water Lex
they say pregnant women shouldn't then the nobody's giving anybody so
and no ones in control even the EPA yes they're like always thought that the
state was gonna be testing we thought they were going to be doing
it's a weird to see how they're really not there's a breakdown in dealing with
these problems right now
I think but they say these are the biggest environmental disasters
ever baby with that drinking water 1 it's this crazy that this habitat like
it's not alarming like it's not sitting on a big right now
this pledge is actually working its way to gamble which is in Virginia and
that's the river that they get their drinking water
yes oh this is actually something that you might put in your body not just one
of those ideas up somewhere somewhere
this is something that I say this is Wednesday said the company was called
exploring multiple options to permit liens
and safely seal the broken storm water pipe
that was going from the pond into the river that release the ash into the
river
but did not say when the leak with gas field or if the river could be cleaning
yet like they got no they have no answers so let's remember when
what how they got started with the EPA so was richard nixon start with the EPA
and what really they say pushed it over to make it happen was that the Cuyahoga
River in Ohio you
used to catch fire all the time but the river and it just so happened one day
there was a reporter from the New York Times happen to see the
River catch on fire and he took a picture of it
and then one in the anymore story about it and that was the thing people
couldn't believe
that rivers would catch on fighter right so that was like that %uh polluted they
were so that's what led
so the EPA in all the clean up in a way I'm getting an environmental
consciousness
that was the tipping point so I think we're gonna get there again right so
we've been doing this deregulation
for the last thirty years since Ronald Reagan and it seems like at you know
it got me beat gotta get worse before it gets better but maybe this will help us
wake up
so I think there's a couple things it at play here I don't think it's an accident
here's what I mean by that is this particular spill in action of course it
it's rated intended they don't want to
gonna cause them damage in were bad publicity and money et cetera right
but it's not an accident in the sense that they've been deregulating in
deregulating
and cutting government agencies that would look up with things like this live
income the EPA's budget
and if you cut the EPA's budget the somehow sometimes they don't
properly coordinate with the state authorities have said they don't have
enough manpower
to look into every Duke Energy out there and so
today was Duke Energy and other day it'll be another company and it will be
north carolina it'll be
you know and it was West Virginia the couple weeks ago it'll be montana will
be north dakota
it'll be all or cuz there's not enough people looking after it and that's not
by accident that's on purpose
because the Duke Energy's in the world and the freedom industries in the world
Greece our politicians to look the other way in the
talking point that they used to do that is you don't want
government over regulating our freedom industries
you know they'll be taking our freedom away well you know in virginia and and
and North Carolina no
you know it's in North Dallas heading towards Virginia well enjoy the freedom
it again industry instead you getting these days i three you