29 January, 2014

A Second Toxic Chemical Spilled in West Virginia, and Freedom Industries Said Nothing Until Now - Businessweek

A Second Toxic Chemical Spilled in West Virginia, and Freedom Industries Said Nothing Until Now - Businessweek: The most alarming aspects of the CDC update are that it was only on Jan. 21 that Freedom Industries informed state authorities about the presence of PPH and that the company is still not being fully forthcoming about the nature of the compound. Why the secrecy? Because Freedom Industries considers its PPH blend “proprietary.”
Story: Forget West Virginia. Chemical Spills Are an American Tradition

Let that sink in. The company that stored dangerous chemicals on a river bank, a mile and a half upstream from the intake to the region’s public water supply, wants to protect trade secrets about its polyglycol ethers recipe. In New York, we call that chutzpah.

Are the people who own and run this company aware that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Charleston is conducting a criminal investigation? If not, their lawyers better tell them pronto. To put it mildly, the Freedom boys aren’t doing themselves any favors in how they’re handling their crisis.