As we’ve all known for quite a while now, evidence that Flint’s children were being poisoned began to surface shortly after it was decided to begin sourcing municipal water from the Flint River in a move to further reduce costs associated with running the once prosperous city, which had been taken over by a governor […]
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It’s becoming apparent that someone did the math and determined that the lives of every man, woman and child in Flint weren’t worth $8 million
Posted in Health, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged Brad Wurfel, corrosion, corrosion control, Dan Wyant, Emergency Manager, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Flint, Flint River, Flint water crisis, lead, Lead and Copper Rule, lead poisoning, MDEQ, Michael Glasgow, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, Miguel Del Toral, Rick Snyder, water 14 Comments
Was the road to Flint paved by frackers?
A few weeks ago I posed a question here based on something Flint attorney Alec Gibbs had told me back in 2014 about the possible origins of the KWA pipeline. “Could the Flint water crisis have its origins in a desire to open up new areas of Michigan to fracking?,” I asked. And, since then, […]
Could the Flint water crisis have its origins in a desire to open up new areas of Michigan to fracking?
In July of 2014 I interviewed Flint attorney Alec Gibbs about the state takeover of Flint, why it happened, and the damage that, by that point, was already underway. It was a great discussion. And, because Gibbs got into a lot of depth not only about what had happened in Flint, but the history of […]