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

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 river.

Here's a photo of the polluted river.

AP Photo/Tyler Evert

Freedom Industries, the company responsible for the spill, also has an “Alaska Division.”

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.

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


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