Company Responsible For West Virginia Spill Has Horribly Ironic Blog Post About Clean Water

BuzzFeed - Irony is dead. h/t to Emily Atkin . You may be familiar with Freedom Industries, the company responsible for leaving nearly 300,000 West Virginians without water, after a chemical spill at a storage facility on the Elk River in Charleston, W.V. The spill began with a leak of 4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol, a compound used to wash coal of impurities and was first-discovered a mile north of the facility. Here's a photo of the polluted- iver. AP Photo/Tyler Evert Freedom Industries, the company responsible for the spill, also has an “Alaska Division.” freedomindustriesalaska.com Freedom Industries Alaska also has a blog, linked from their website, that includes this post about clean water, “something most of us take for granted,” touting the company’s “environmentally safe” products. Via freedomindustries.blogspot.com View Entire List ›