In Halliburton’s hometown, oil giant is both hero and menace

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Al Jazeera

In Halliburton’s hometown, oil giant is both hero and menace

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Halliburton carried out Cold War–era work cleaning solid rocket fuel from spent missile casings for the Department of Defense and burned the fuel in open, unlined pits from 1965 to 1991. In 1988 the company acknowledged in a letter to the state health department that ammonium perchlorate, a component of rocket fuel, leached into the groundwater at the site.

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[Wellstone ruled]

1. This story answers many questions

as to why the major attack on any clean air and clean water regulations by the GOP. Perchlorate manufacturing plant is located in Henderson,Nevada and the finished product travels via UP rail tank cars. This plant has exploded once already causing millions in damage. EPA has forced this POS to clean up a secret trench dump site and to think there are new homes maybe a hundred yards from this plant and trench. Kerr-Megee was the original owners and thy have had a working relationship with Haliburton for decades. Nevada has purposely quileched any and all citizen action to clean up this industry. When purchasing any home in that area,you will not be informed as to what major hazards might or does exist in homes lot or house. The latest environmental hazard to pop up this week is asbestos and the major deposit is in the same area,with the main deposit across the main Hwy in a old abandoned mining operation. This is going to get real interesting in the next few weeks. Local TV station is reporting about the how and why and sounds like the Monied Guys on the Strip are in high gear to bury this story.

[Nihil]

2. It's Halliburton. They'll get away with it - they always do.

They'll use their lawyers to delay, their PR to cover up, their politicians to distract
and then "apologetically" pay a pittance of a "fine" in order to get everything sealed.

When you rule successive presidents, you have no need to even acknowledge that laws exist.