Alaska health officials warn of toxin in North Pole gardens

[Arctic Dave]

Santa's reindeer are screwed.

FAIRBANKS -- Alaska health officials are warning North Pole residents to avoid using well water on their gardens after tests showed traces of an industrial chemical.

About 200 wells in and around North Pole are contaminated with sulfolane, an industrial solvent used to refine oil.

Gasoline spills that occurred at a North Pole refinery more than a decade ago are believed to have caused the contamination.

Flint Hills Resources, which bought the refinery in 2004, discovered the groundwater contamination in 2009. Since then, the company has put several million dollars toward solving the problem.



Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/01/19/1656410/alaska-health-officials-warn-of.html#ixzz1BX49eGkj

[derby378]

1. You know, as long as the Ice Road Truckers are risking their lives to deliver that stuff...

...would it kill the refinery workers to remember the sacrifices made by said Ice Road Truckers and not, I repeat, NOT dump that goop all over Alaska's wilderness?!?