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this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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They're guessing based on labels on barrels, but admitted they want to test everything because they don't trust that the contents match the labels. It's ugly. They showed some photos - they'd stick the logs inside these huge pressure chambers to force the chemicals into the wood, then pull them out and let them drip dry over the ground. Where people walked through it, tracking it all over the site. That somehow people were complaining for 40 years and the EPA only got allowed on site in Dec 2022 is sobering. (DEQ fined them in 2020, but still, absolutely wild how blatant this was and frankly lacking in any sense of care for their workers or community. And I'm not impressed with the regulatory response. Like how did they not know this was happening?)
Makes me wonder how the owners slept at night, knowing they were poisoning the people they worked with and their own community.