The 7 Most Toxic Places in the US (Do Not Go Here!)

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  • @TheRumpletiltskin
    @TheRumpletiltskin 8 ปีที่แล้ว +890

    I don't understand why the companies that do this crap aren't forced into bankruptcy cleaning up THEIR mess. A small fine isn't gonna keep these companies from exploiting the system.

    • @ModernGameArmy
      @ModernGameArmy 8 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Because the government has to much power. Ironically speaking less government would give companies less power.

    • @spacecadet2827
      @spacecadet2827 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      they usually paid lots of money to locals when they were set-up. And they employ half of the locals.
      this way the locals feel responsible on the way out and don't say much

    • @spacecadet2827
      @spacecadet2827 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ***** it's always the locals who sell them the land in the first place, and the mining rights. you do understand that yeh?. and it's always the locals who get the jobs. once again you do understand that yeh?? and the local shops suddenly double their trade overnight, oh yeh i bet they hate that too. without these things it would NEVER HAPPEN, that's the whole point. This is how they buy what they need.

    • @NobodyNowhereKnowhow
      @NobodyNowhereKnowhow 8 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      +Space Cadet uhhh, yeah, local GOVERNMENTS, typically. The sites that they build most on are typically held by local governments or are confiscated under the guise of eminent domain where the owners usually paid pennies on the dollar of what the actual property is worth, or will be worth after being rezoned by the zoning board and then those savings are passed on to the corporations through tax incentives like rebates and credits. Those are the "locals" that are selling their land to big corporations like this.

    • @spacecadet2827
      @spacecadet2827 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      ***** you're speaking a whole bunch of shit. I live in australia. we see it happen all day long. they sell their land, they get the jobs. I have no idea why you're throwing away all your credibility. Govts dont usually mine on or rent their own land. it's called "crown land". it's dumbfuck broke locals who let it happen. your misaimed butthurt is annoying and not helping things by filling up the space with misinformation

  • @fakjbf3129
    @fakjbf3129 8 ปีที่แล้ว +258

    Best part about Love Canal is that they sold the property to the local government for $1 and explicitly told them about the hazardous waste, warning them about the possible health risks and putting in the deed that they would not be held responsible for whatever the government did with the site. Fast forward 20+ years and they built a residential area over and around the site, and the local government wanted to sue Hooker Chemical Company because they did exactly what Hooker told them not to do. And somehow people use it as a cautionary tale about corporate greed, and not bureaucratic stupidity.

    • @AngryKittens
      @AngryKittens 8 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Because it's both. Selling it for $1 doesn't make them generous. It just means that IS truly what that piece of land is worth, considering how much they would have to spend to clean it up.

    • @fakjbf3129
      @fakjbf3129 8 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Angreh Kittunz They initially refused to sell the land, only when the government threatened eminent domain did they concede. The $1 wasn't them trying to just dump the land on the government, it was their way of pointing out what an absolutely terrible idea buying the land was. Had the government used eminent domain they would have had to pay thousands of dollars, if Hooker was only looking out for their bottom line they wouldn't have sold it for next to nothing. That's why the corporate greed spin on the story is only relevant for the dumping of the chemicals itself, everything after that was absolutely on the local government.

    • @AngryKittens
      @AngryKittens 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Fakjbf _"That's why the corporate greed spin on the story is only relevant for the dumping of the chemicals itself"_
      Which is exactly the point?

    • @cjkavy2299
      @cjkavy2299 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Imma be honest, our local government is shit. The Buffalo area is honestly one of the shittiest places to live. When every other industrial city modernized, we didn't... And that's why we're the third poorest city in the country and home to the NFL's most drunk fans.

    • @shingshongshamalama
      @shingshongshamalama 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yeah, maybe that just proves that the laws themselves were garbage?
      In any event, it doesn't really absolve the company from being morally reprehensible for dumping a load of toxic crap anywhere.

  • @southwestontario
    @southwestontario 7 ปีที่แล้ว +894

    The Love Canal area in NY is STILL contaminated. It was not cleaned up completely, despite their claim that it was safe in 2004. To this day, the residents surrounding the area are having serious health problems. Only SOME of the material was removed and moved.
    There are still serious chemicals like dioxin in the ground. The large main area remains fenced off.

    • @eddiebrevet4000
      @eddiebrevet4000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      ON TARIO whole area ought to be covered by heavy duty tarp, with wire mesh over that. Stop water contamination. If water drains in, divert around.

    • @CooKiesHouseCannabisCo
      @CooKiesHouseCannabisCo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@eddiebrevet4000 Lol that's exactly what they did...except sometimes it floods.

    • @gateauxq4604
      @gateauxq4604 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      The claims of safety really made my nose itch. Our government has been available to help companies for the right price for decades now. Id be shocked if any of the ‘safe’ sites were actually safe.

    • @2410jrod
      @2410jrod 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Same thing on Times Beach Missouri still is contaminated yet EPA say it’s all cleaned up. They got screwed over big time they dealt with the same stuff that was used to make Agent Orange

    • @ilikefood2052
      @ilikefood2052 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's NF, New York for you

  • @Namastephie
    @Namastephie ปีที่แล้ว +19

    0:40 Love Canal
    2:20 Reed-Kepler Park
    3:20 Hart Senate Office Building
    4:49 Blackburn and Union Privileges
    5:40 Berkeley Pit
    7:22 Hudson River
    8:31 CTS of Asheville

    • @nathanreid2974
      @nathanreid2974 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      that cts one has to be camp lejeune

  • @baddriversofcolga
    @baddriversofcolga 5 ปีที่แล้ว +249

    Anniston, AL had a huge contamination of PCBs from Monsanto when they were just dumping it into a creek for many years. It's amazing what these companies will try to get away with. And yet some people don't want them to be regulated at all...it's insane.

    • @dankendra5093
      @dankendra5093 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      But what about our jobs? Lawl

    • @elizabethsullivan7176
      @elizabethsullivan7176 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      There was a creek near where I grew up in London, Ontario that was contaminated with PCBs that we used to play in when we were kids in the 1970s. The source was a Westinghouse factory about 10 minutes away from us and they built hydro transformers. The building sits empty now and for years the contaminated soil was buried in huge oil drums on the property until about 10 years ago. Might have something to do with why I have hypothyroidism now.

    • @colatf2
      @colatf2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Yea I cannot comprehend why people think regulating business is unnecessary; it’s a one way trip to some massive fuckup.

    • @neuswoesje590
      @neuswoesje590 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@elizabethsullivan7176 that is awful I´m so sorry. I´m sure they were fully aware that they contaminated the creek and that kids were playing in it too, but didn't say anything because money. disgusting.

    • @aoiahiru670
      @aoiahiru670 ปีที่แล้ว

      According to the EPA, "hazardous and non­hazardous wastes were disposed in several areas, including the West End and South Landfills that are adjacent to the plant. Surface water containing PCBs and other site related contaminants flowed into the 11th Street ditch, Snow Creek, Choccolocco Creek and the Coosa River." Bad news for the environment for sure, but not quite the same thing as "just dumping it into a creek."

  • @springranch1384
    @springranch1384 5 ปีที่แล้ว +206

    "Hauled away to a landfill."
    How many times was that said - - as if that was the end of things. Where are these landfills. How closely are they being monitored?

    • @lochnessamonster1912
      @lochnessamonster1912 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Spring Ranch The landfills are where all of our recycling is going, too. Vote republican! >snickers

    • @kylestanley7843
      @kylestanley7843 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I imagine in most cases they are being considered. You wouldn't want a landfill near your water supply no matter what you put into the damn thing lol

    • @gateauxq4604
      @gateauxq4604 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      On secret sky islands our government made just for this sort of thing of course.

    • @y0nd3r
      @y0nd3r 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Pretty sure his comments were tongue in cheek.
      Like, oh look, they're putting another hazardous chemical in a landfill, boy I feel safe.

    • @davidfortier6976
      @davidfortier6976 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The quality of landfills themselves and the quality of their monitoring varies to an unsettling degree. Some of them are really well managed, others aren't monitored for "toxic seepage" at all. And you probably already knew that.

  • @lexhdz5803
    @lexhdz5803 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1017

    this video should be called "7 times company greed exceeded common sense by a LOT"

    • @mam362
      @mam362 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      how does that apply to the senate building?

    • @lexhdz5803
      @lexhdz5803 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      @@mam362 if you dont think the government rn acts as a glorified company ur literally blind

    • @rdspam
      @rdspam ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Damn greedy Congressional staffers!

    • @danielhavoc889
      @danielhavoc889 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lexhdz5803 ah yes, so greedy of the government to get hit by a bio-terrorism attack....

    • @TheHallamski
      @TheHallamski ปีที่แล้ว

      Another 7 times capitalism has failed the 99%

  • @NightcoreGirl98
    @NightcoreGirl98 5 ปีที่แล้ว +275

    I was expecting the Hanford nuclear mess in Washington to be on this list, its leaky tanks of nuclear stuff hasn't been fixed even though millions of dollars have gone towards fixing it.

    • @goodun2974
      @goodun2974 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Nightcore, I upvoted your comment, not because Hanford is a good thing but because you were right to point out that giant radioactive facility most definitely belongs on everyone's short-list of Superfund sites.

    • @macalister8881
      @macalister8881 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Hanford dumped 1.34 trillion gallons of nuke puke from 1948 to 1954 , they still have 120 tanks under ground that contain 64 million gallons of plutonium sludge , they leak and vent gasses up into the air , sickness is the biggest industry

    • @katyungodly
      @katyungodly 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@macalister8881 if this were the Fallout universe there would be glowing ghouls all over that place
      ☢🧟‍♂️🧟‍♂️🧟‍♂️☢

    • @macalister8881
      @macalister8881 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@katyungodly just watched a documentary about glyphosate aka monsantos round up weed killer sprayed on all crops around the world , 48.6 billion tons is years each year only 10 % stays on the crops the rest is air born and finds it,s way in all rain fall , all drinking water , all organic food grown unless it is produced in a hot house . Levels are so toxic most sickness and cancer is from this chemical and yet no one cares , radiation from nuke puke is our last concern me thinks

    • @r3nchCS
      @r3nchCS 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It's not considered a superfund site because the leaks aren't considered a risk to life or health currently. The waste is low activity and fairly well contained.

  • @Ryukachoo
    @Ryukachoo 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1011

    for a long time i thought "superfund site" was "superfun site" and thought 'wow that's some dark comedy on a political scale'

    • @hd_inmemoriam
      @hd_inmemoriam 8 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      In fact, there were some instances in this video where I thought Hank was being sarcastic, but then I remembered. :D

    • @parkerbilbro3651
      @parkerbilbro3651 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Sean Mcgrew Who exactly is Juan Gabriel?

    • @annamoon8684
      @annamoon8684 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +The Frenzied Wolf He was one of the best mexican songwriters. A party here isn't a proper party unless they play at least 5 of his songs. He is a legend.

    • @ParanoidAlaskan
      @ParanoidAlaskan 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That's would have been some Dwarf Fortress style humor.

    • @StephandaSilva
      @StephandaSilva 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +

  • @RykanXP
    @RykanXP 8 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I was hoping Berkeley Pit would be on here. As a fellow Montana resident I was constantly told of this site through my school years. I'm constantly surprised that something so awful has been allow to fester like that, and it serves as a good reminder to be conscious of the things you do to the environment. This was a pretty neat episode.

    • @joeharris3878
      @joeharris3878 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Flew into the airport there once. You could see the big blue-green spot way off.
      A strange sight.
      You'd think the city would actually be moved.
      Might happen someday I suppose.
      I bought my Montana Tech Orediggers tshirt there.

  • @pbreedu
    @pbreedu 8 ปีที่แล้ว +318

    You got to feel sorry for the teachers who want to talk about the Love Canal. Not only does it sound like an adult movie but add to the fact that it was polluted by the Hooker chemical company and any grade 6 class will be a huge challenge to keep from laughing.

    • @fluffydevil13
      @fluffydevil13 7 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      pbreedu i took AP environmental science my senior year of high school and it was so hard not to laugh. My desk partner had a really gallows sense of humor too.

    • @michaellevengood8278
      @michaellevengood8278 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Make them laugh about it, make it a joke. That's a great way to help them remember.

    • @phantomaviator1318
      @phantomaviator1318 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just laugh top

    • @marnenotmarnie259
      @marnenotmarnie259 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@michaellevengood8278 generally those kinds of jokes from teachers are discouraged lol

    • @deanronson6331
      @deanronson6331 ปีที่แล้ว

      If wingnuts like SeSatanis become president, they will probably strike teaching of business-caused disasters from history books, like they did with Black history or banning books from school libraries.The next step is the burning of books they don't like. Stalin used to order removing subjects he didn't like from history and other books, and he had persona non grata removed from historical photos by the then technique of photo-shopping, called retouching.

  • @richardlong172
    @richardlong172 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    The toxic chemicals at Love Canal were never relocated, as you mention in this video. They were covered with a clay cap and surrounded with a chain link fence, and remain on site where they were a century ago. The chemicals have leaked into local swage pipes in recent years which are located well outside of the confined area. People continue to live in close proximity to the site believing that it is safe, but I guarantee they at putting themselves at a higher health risk compared to anyone else not raising their family nearby the area

  • @thegirthquake8574
    @thegirthquake8574 7 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    Attention:
    If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, you may be entitled to compensation. Mesothelioma is a rare cancer.

    • @jljordan1
      @jljordan1 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’ve had a few patients with it.

  • @ChunkNinja
    @ChunkNinja 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3504

    You forgot the most toxic US site: The youtube comments section.

    • @DBZHGWgamer
      @DBZHGWgamer 8 ปีที่แล้ว +153

      Thats actually world site, not US exclusive.

    • @cjkavy2299
      @cjkavy2299 8 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Racist little Minecraft shit

    • @Cahejo
      @Cahejo 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Oh shit whaddup?!

    • @SuperExodian
      @SuperExodian 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      toxic you way? how about most of the middle east..
      bloody terrorists making everything a pain..

    • @Justin-jh3kb
      @Justin-jh3kb 8 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      +Bart De Bock why are you guys taking him seriously he was making a joke

  • @redtopaz
    @redtopaz 8 ปีที่แล้ว +586

    The Love Canal Hole was contaminated by Hooker Chemicals... (I know it's a serious story. I can't help myself T_T...)

    • @cruz1816
      @cruz1816 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      love anal hole

    • @il-dottore
      @il-dottore 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ( ͡ ° ͜ ʖ ͡ ° )

    • @gnomesmcgee3362
      @gnomesmcgee3362 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What about filthy sex now?

    • @gnomesmcgee3362
      @gnomesmcgee3362 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Frisky Bottomsuuater do you roleplay?
      I soo wanna rp whit you

    • @missprimrose4132
      @missprimrose4132 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Rulya Mórrigan Ard Mhacha then you know people including children died of cancer because the contamination drained into their basements & back yards. Yep, real F'n funny...

  • @theclockworksolution8521
    @theclockworksolution8521 5 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    I'm surprised there was no mention of Picher, Oklahoma, which I'd always heard was the most toxic superfund place in the US.
    Also no mention of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory site in California (neither of these places have been fully cleaned up), but mostly Picher. *Picher is a nightmare*.

    • @McGreasyjesus
      @McGreasyjesus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I expected to see pitcher too....or North st louis and the currently burning landfill filled with nuclear waste and coldwater creek
      ....or times beach.....or...jeez we really are terrible

    • @elliethecat5973
      @elliethecat5973 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Picher is flint mishagen but with more lead and it's a goast town

    • @juliewillson3378
      @juliewillson3378 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Was surprised neither Picher, Oklahoma nor Times Beach, Missouri were on this list.

    • @BluetheRaccoon
      @BluetheRaccoon ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I remember watching a documentary about Picher, and how the lead chat was being used in sandboxes. I can't imagine how much brain damage was caused by the lead exposure, and that it was done knowingly is ghastly. It stuns me that Eagle-Picher is still around today, and weren't bankrupted and made pay for the town they destroyed.

    • @freshrot420
      @freshrot420 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BluetheRaccoon Gotta study lead exposure somehow! They really dropped the ball with leaded gas too. That stuff went everywhere and small planes are still allowed to use it. There's now an "acceptable amount" in almost everyone's tap water. I've got a hunch it's why our world is so screwed up and likely why these idiots made such poor decisions with their waste, not to mention our lackadaisical response to pretty much all of it. These companies and more should have been boycotted out of existence long ago.

  • @AidanKedzierski
    @AidanKedzierski 8 ปีที่แล้ว +213

    This video makes me even more excited to become an environmental engineer.

    • @ModernGameArmy
      @ModernGameArmy 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Good, then you can convince people that electric cars are actually bad for the environment. And that wind and solar are not the future.

    • @Gothead420
      @Gothead420 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Please, enlighten us. What is THE future?

    • @iQKyyR3K
      @iQKyyR3K 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +Gothead420 there is the argument that the production of necessary resources for batteries and wind power is more harmful than plain petrol cars or gas power plants

    • @Gothead420
      @Gothead420 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      MrEppart Using cheap production-methods and not caring about pollution leads to such problems, not renewable energies per-sé.
      E.g. the mercury in solarpanels only has to be handled properly, its not leaking out for no reason or something...
      Humankind ONLY has this one chance to become truly sustainable, otherwise our civilisation will go down...

    • @ModernGameArmy
      @ModernGameArmy 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Gothead420 Then there is also the fact that solar doesn't work while cloudy and at night. They don't produce much in the first place. And wind is costs a ton of money for little power and can only operate under specific conditions. Nuclear energy is the future
      Electric cars are probably the future just not right now. Just making an electric car battery will create more co2 than a gasoline car will in it's entire lifetime.

  • @kenobi1985
    @kenobi1985 8 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Anyone remember the Erin Brockovich movie from 2000? For years, the people of Hinkley, CA drank water contaminated by hexavalent chromium (Chromium-6), which causes cancer. And Hinkley isn't the only place with this kind of problem. It's still an ongoing cleanup site with the pollution plume reported to still be growing!! Reportedly, Hinkley has become something of a modern-day ghost town. California is my home state so this really P.O.s me, especially since I still have family out there, though not in that area specifically. And even earlier this year the SCGC was trying to downplay the effects of a major gas leak in L.A. Unbelievable. And they seem so surprised that people have stopped believing their so-called assurances concerning their health! Especially after Flint, which I notice didn't make the list. You could make a whole series about these places, easily. Money-grubbing a-holes. Makes me sick that people still get away with it over and over again all over the world. Wake up people!!!

    • @chubbyraycactus3246
      @chubbyraycactus3246 ปีที่แล้ว

      Now we're tracking.

    • @freshrot420
      @freshrot420 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There's a nice map online where you can see which waterways and water plants Chromium-6 has been detected and their percentages. It's kinda crazy. "EWG estimates that water supplies serving 218 million Americans - more than two-thirds of the population - contain unsafe levels of chromium-6." I don't think governments should have as big of roles as they do, yet they can't even do the few things they really should do.

    • @truth4004
      @truth4004 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@freshrot420 its not the governments fault its the factories dumping their runoff.

    • @JonMartinYXD
      @JonMartinYXD ปีที่แล้ว

      @@truth4004 It is also the electorate's fault for electing representatives that instead of believing in the science believe that the 'free market' will make corporations properly regulate themselves.

    • @tarajoyce3598
      @tarajoyce3598 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ohio just labeled her a terrorist threat because she had been to East Palestine Ohio twice after overwhelming residents asking for her help. Her townhalls are on YT.

  • @Hannah_Em
    @Hannah_Em 7 ปีที่แล้ว +636

    And this is why getting rid of the EPA because it "stifles business" is a *bad* idea

    • @llaneelyort5599
      @llaneelyort5599 7 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      this is only the sites that we know of. imagine what has been dumped into the oceans.

    • @uncle1886
      @uncle1886 6 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Llaneel Yort look into cruise ships and where they dump their waste....and how much one ship on one trip pollutes the air. It’s mind boggling

    • @zerocooler7
      @zerocooler7 6 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      @Rulya Ard Mhacha Farley I've read comments from several conservatives that do indeed want to get rid of the EPA.

    • @yodaguy6956
      @yodaguy6956 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      The EPA as it is now needs to be completely overhauled so it can concentrate on important stuff like this rather than enforcing pointless nonimpactful legislation. The entire safety industry has become a bloated monstrosity whose primary purpose seems to be creation and enforcement of unimportant regulations, "justifying" many useless programs that are really just about maintaining jobs.

    • @nosuchthing8
      @nosuchthing8 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In other words, money is more important than humand

  • @mhail7874
    @mhail7874 5 ปีที่แล้ว +341

    I like how you guys made the whole United States in the thumbnail look like it’s just one toxic place

    • @amber1685
      @amber1685 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      You're going to look at him and your going to tell him that he's WrONG?!

    • @wovengoal6641
      @wovengoal6641 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      He isn’t wrong

    • @squiddiot5477
      @squiddiot5477 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      As someone who lives in the U.S, I can confirm that it is

    • @WhiskMyEggs
      @WhiskMyEggs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      it is

    • @superspicy8740
      @superspicy8740 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@squiddiot5477 this year proves it

  • @johndavis9487
    @johndavis9487 7 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    1) LOVE CANAL
    2) REED-KEPPLER PARK
    3) HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
    4) BLACKBURN AND UNION PRIVILEGES
    5) BERKELEY PIT
    6) HUDSON RIVER
    7) CTS OF ASHEVILLE

    • @lalaithan
      @lalaithan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you kind person.

    • @madisonwagnon894
      @madisonwagnon894 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Pitcher should be on here

    • @stringcheese4592
      @stringcheese4592 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@madisonwagnon894 agree Madison! Picher s/b 💯% on the list!😱😭👍

    • @gateauxq4604
      @gateauxq4604 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Keep going...

    • @michaelhorn9114
      @michaelhorn9114 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The UNIONTOWN OHIO INDUSTRIAL LANDFILL!!!!!!!!

  • @ihydgm6991
    @ihydgm6991 7 ปีที่แล้ว +481

    If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with meselthemeola you may be entitled to compensation

    • @kaworunagisa3391
      @kaworunagisa3391 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I was looking through the comments to see if anyone already said that...

    • @MooshieGaming
      @MooshieGaming 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Meselthemeola?
      Pls search up how to spell before you make memes xd

    • @Backyardmech1
      @Backyardmech1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You must be thinking of Jim Adler and his ambulance chasers.

    • @siriustheislandprotector9720
      @siriustheislandprotector9720 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      MooshieGaming I

    • @yeehaw289
      @yeehaw289 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      IHYDGM
      Navy, shipyard, mills, and heating

  • @Snowl11
    @Snowl11 8 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    I don't understand how people thought like "hey lets just dump all this in the ground, its fine" like how stupid can you be

    • @azraelle6232
      @azraelle6232 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      A lot of the time these chemicals were dumped before we knew they were so dangerous.

    • @anyfoolcanknow
      @anyfoolcanknow 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's all an equation. The profit margin is destroyed if you actually use the money you make to clean up all the mess made in the process. It's hard to handle but most of the things you use in modern Life have nasty biproducts, that's why green chemistry is such a big deal. There's better ways of doing things but often times it's unavoidable. Unless you want to pay 4 times as much for the same product it's a fact you have to live with.

    • @p51mustang24
      @p51mustang24 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      In a lot of cases they actually thought it was fine. It wasn't until well into the post ww2 era that most began to understand the environmental impacts of dealing with harmful chemicals.

    • @Nicholas-f5
      @Nicholas-f5 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Old generations.

    • @breezybaby6430
      @breezybaby6430 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think what you meant to say is how ignorant can you be, and the answer is very ignorant. Dilution was, and still is, thought to be a satisfactory waste disposal method. Dilution definitely can be a viable waste reduction method, but the degree of dilution necessary for a chemical/compound to become non-harmful varies greatly. The science that identifies how much of/if a chemical is hazardous usually lags behind its production and application. Many times though, even with substantial evidence to back up a claim that something is toxic, it takes an immense effort to get people to make any change away from what is easy and readily available. Again, as someone else already pointed out, people that dump toxins are not idiots (for the vast majority). Ignorance or greed is often the problem, and sometimes it's indifference. Stupid people aren't usually in a position to be able to make harmful choices that have such a large impact. Only when idiots group together and vote can they make such choices (see almost every politician in the last 100 years for examples).

  • @jacob_90s
    @jacob_90s 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Always breaks my heart to hear companies do things like this. I naively keep hoping people will one day learn from history that greed never pays off. Might make you a little money now, but it always costs more in the long run.

    • @Brett_S_420
      @Brett_S_420 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It pays off for the jerks running the companies that do this stuff. Usually by a lot. Until that changes, they keep killing us all.

    • @JeepartN
      @JeepartN ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Well they wont learn tho? Since its not the companies paying for the cleanup right... the people who made the decision to pollute these places probably got away with alot more money than they started with 🙃

    • @awaredeshmukh3202
      @awaredeshmukh3202 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Unfortunately, if it's not them paying, it only costs the rest of us money and they learn the opposite

    • @ujustgotpwned2008
      @ujustgotpwned2008 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But greed does pay off; that's how billionaires are made. It sucks, sure, but greed pays.

    • @truth4004
      @truth4004 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They don't care they're loaded and will live somewhere clean.

  • @YTN3rd
    @YTN3rd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +248

    I couldn’t stop hearing “super fun site”

    • @WouldntULikeToKnow.
      @WouldntULikeToKnow. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Super fun for the corporations that made them because they also made a pretty penny and hefted the clean up costs onto the tax payers. Yay!

    • @ichaukan
      @ichaukan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It's the politically correct way to say "Toxic waste dump"

    • @DiscoChixify
      @DiscoChixify 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yup, so much fun! 😂

    • @j-sant-animations8105
      @j-sant-animations8105 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      So fun, you’ll stay for the rest of your life!

    • @eliunderwood2246
      @eliunderwood2246 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@j-sant-animations8105 Search "Picher, Oklahoma" it's basically like Pripayat except it's problem was from mass production and littering of led.

  • @triciafleckenstein9472
    @triciafleckenstein9472 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I grew up near Love Canal! It was crazy for sure. They rebuilt a school in too of the canal inspite of warnings!

  • @kweenyasmine5324
    @kweenyasmine5324 6 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    When I clicked on this I was like “I probably don’t live too close to any of these” and then the first one is in Niagara Falls, NY... and I live in Buffalo, NY. -.-

    • @hughdanielson
      @hughdanielson 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Would you believe that isn't the only site up there?

    • @zoecoffee9054
      @zoecoffee9054 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I hear everyone hates Niagara Falls, NY who lives there bc of the environment

    • @agonicole
      @agonicole 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And Hudson river, and dioxin plant...

    • @AOk-by4pi
      @AOk-by4pi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I was thinking the same except I’m on the other side of the border :( sad how greed and willful ignorance make corporate profiteers apathetic and corrupt.

    • @TheParadoxGamer1
      @TheParadoxGamer1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Try bein near Picher Oklahoma

  • @abethepunk
    @abethepunk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    My grandmother worked near Love Canal while she was pregnant with my mom! My mom was born with a cleft palate, same with my nephew and cousin. A lot of us also have Sticklers Syndrome.

    • @alexk628
      @alexk628 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      What is Sticklers Syndrome?

    • @guillermo3564
      @guillermo3564 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@alexk628 either Google it or ask your mommy. People aren't online to provide you with an education.

    • @onloct7417
      @onloct7417 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      People are online to communicate and converse with one another. Idk why you people get angry when someone asks a question. Insecure I guess

    • @agorachills
      @agorachills 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @UCB7-k4YP5RoOSGD7ZrEd_mA oh grow up Jesus ever heard of a hug ? You fingg need one 🙄

    • @neuswoesje590
      @neuswoesje590 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@guillermo3564 literally just keep on scrolling if you don't want to answer a question. you just put effort into this for absolutely no reason

  • @DavidDylanFisher
    @DavidDylanFisher 8 ปีที่แล้ว +231

    Important point about the Love Canal case: the company that dumped the chemicals wasn't the bad guy. The real-estate company that knowingly bought the contaminated land and built housing developments on it and sold them to unsuspecting buyers without telling them was the bad guy. The dumpers made sure the developers knew the land was unsafe and tried to dissuade the developers from buying it.

    • @foxymetroid
      @foxymetroid 7 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      To be fair, the company that dumped those chemicals there isn't exactly blameless either.

    • @jamesmiller4054
      @jamesmiller4054 7 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      DavidDylanFisher weeeeelll i mean they still killed millions of innocent creatures because they it was cheaper and they could and did get away with just throwing it in a lake rather than safely disposing the chemicals

    • @southwestontario
      @southwestontario 7 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Actually the true factual story is that the Hooker Chemical Company sold the land with all that buried waste to the Niagara Falls School Board for $1. They sold it to them under the stipulation that they were not to build anything on the land. Instead of following tthe NFSchool Board, built an elementary school, the 99th street school on it.
      For sure the NF School Board did a terrible thing, but the Hooker company, they KNEW it was toxic and they sold it to the school board? What did they think the school board wanted to do on the land??
      Also, there were many houses built around the area, almost all of which have been destroyed .

    • @nukemanmd
      @nukemanmd 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I don't understand how the Wikipedia article gave you the impression that Hooker was blameless. To the contrary, it knew that it had serious liability exposure, and elected to give the land to the City in return for a release of liability by the City. Clearly, City officials were unaware of the extent of the danger. Nevertheless, the City was clearly culpable for not investigating the site before building a school.
      Hooker DID NOT do things properly. It carelessly disposed of dangerous chemicals. It failed to disclose the nature of the waste to the City. It basically washed its hands of the situation and tried to "dump" the problem on others. It deserved its fines.

    • @prepperjonpnw6482
      @prepperjonpnw6482 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      DavidDylanFisher but they still sold it to them lol

  • @benfrechette9873
    @benfrechette9873 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1279

    #8 BuzzFeed Studios

    • @Neonmonkey42
      @Neonmonkey42 8 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      +Samuel Myers True, though.

    • @barginprice
      @barginprice 8 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      damn I don't even like Buzzfeed and I felt that

    • @Neonmonkey42
      @Neonmonkey42 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      · 0xFFF1 "As Sonic the hedgehog once said: That's no good."
      Fantastic.

    • @NoahMiclette
      @NoahMiclette 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +· 0xFFF1 triggered

    • @janman1275
      @janman1275 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +· 0xFFF1 it is called slang

  • @kingjames4886
    @kingjames4886 5 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    "there are thousands of these sites... here's 7."

    • @ItsmeStudios
      @ItsmeStudios 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      These must be the worst

    • @Draber2b
      @Draber2b 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A good starting point xD

  • @rebeccaj210
    @rebeccaj210 5 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    I love how he says "we" as if every day Americans had a choice in dumping this waste in the water they drink.

    • @trishayamada807
      @trishayamada807 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      But WE do get to PAY for it. 🤬

    • @KellyClowers
      @KellyClowers 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      We as in we humans

    • @truth4004
      @truth4004 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah he shouldnt say we.

  • @angelswithmolotovs9857
    @angelswithmolotovs9857 8 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    It's like Minimata disease, caused by the company Cheeso dumping industrial waste into the water in Minimata, Japan. Because the Japanese have such a fish-based diet, many suffered severe mercury poisoning from the metal waste that had accumulated in their fish. It was first seen in cats (because their bodies are smaller, the effects took hold quicker), who would have a dance-like seizure, earning the illness the nickname "Dancing Cat Disease". Why Cheeso would dump it into the place they get their own food, I have no idea. Humans disgust me sometimes. (I do believe the citizens of Minimata won a large lawsuit against the corporation, though. So that's good)

    • @99kdaniel
      @99kdaniel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Reading this book in my toxicology class alone with Silent Spring made me change from medical to environmental.

  • @oonaalexandra6311
    @oonaalexandra6311 7 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    I live near by a toxic clean up sight. Most of it is fenced off and it's really nice to see that dandelion and other weeds have found there way in there.

    • @mariawhite7337
      @mariawhite7337 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I live near a uranium tailings pile. The only problem I have is that I cant sleep because I glow in the dark.

    • @nuclearannihilation1475
      @nuclearannihilation1475 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mariawhite7337 OMG

    • @neuswoesje590
      @neuswoesje590 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@mariawhite7337 dude you have a build in nightlight, that's awesome!!

    • @GenRN
      @GenRN ปีที่แล้ว

      Site; not sight. Sight is vision

  • @DustinRodriguez1_0
    @DustinRodriguez1_0 8 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I grew up in the northern panhandle of West Virginia, right near the Ohio River (most polluted waterway in the country! Woohoo!). There was one place that I was always told to stay away from and which was always fenced off for a long ways around it that I later found out was a Superfund site. It was the previous location of a chemical plant of some sort (there are still several chemical plants in the region, my dad still works at one... and there was a chlorine gas pipeline leak at one of the other ones just the day before yesterday that required evacuating hundreds of homes). My grandfather told me that before the place was recognized as a Superfund site, the place had been abandoned for a long time and they used to play there when he was younger. Apparently there were loads of arrowheads you could find buried there... in the soil that was declared contaminated down to a depth of something like 10 feet. He also told me about how they would go to the shoreline of the river that was on the same property and that you could reach down into the mud and pull up just handfuls of mercury.
    Apparently it has since been cleaned up, though. Now that there are oil and gas companies everywhere in that area thanks to the recently discovered natural gas deposits, one of them purchased the whole area and built a bunch of structures on it (I believe gas storage tanks judging by the appearance of the things built there). I imagine they had to foot the bill to clean it up but I'm not sure. They also just recently (like a month ago) spent in the neighborhood of $300 million to tear down an abandoned coal power plant right across the river from the Superfund place. Apparently their plan is to build a $2 billion cracking plant there. We'll see just what they leave behind...

  • @robertlinscott7719
    @robertlinscott7719 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    I remember kids picking up rocks from the love canal, throwing them down and they would explode like pop rocks.

    • @NorthernChev
      @NorthernChev ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Rocks that explode in the love canal... Well said, sir. Well said.

    • @mariastevens6406
      @mariastevens6406 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wtf

  • @JoeSkylynx
    @JoeSkylynx 8 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I think it's worth mentioning - West Valley, New York has had a huge nuclear waste issue thanks to used-bars of radioactive material being buried under the ground without a whole lot of protection, and it's been effectively contaminating the Cattaraugus Creek basin. It's not uncommon for fishermen of the prized Lake Erie steelhead to find their catch with numerous birth defects.

  • @abiparedes2001
    @abiparedes2001 6 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    I live in an 11 minute ride away from a landfill that contains nuclear waste that is super close to a huge underground fire that will burn for decades because they don’t know how to put it out and it’s at risk of getting to the waste

    • @dendrobialbright7616
      @dendrobialbright7616 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Eastern PA

    • @offhandacoustic
      @offhandacoustic 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@dendrobialbright7616 Westlake landfill in Missouri. It's an abandoned landfill that has radioactive material,trash and God knows what else mixed all together and it just happens to be on fire. It's a dirty secret that some people are doing all they can to keep a secret. I moved my family as soon as I could after finding out I lived 2.1 miles east of this place. I've lived around this burning landfill my entire life and only learned about it 3 years ago,I am in my late 30s.

    • @dendrobialbright7616
      @dendrobialbright7616 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@offhandacoustic man..i'm so sorry.. What a sick mess!

    • @fab0392
      @fab0392 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      U must live in pa. I know the site

    • @fab0392
      @fab0392 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Centralia Pennsylvania.

  • @Cardboardangele
    @Cardboardangele 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    My mother was a child who lived in Love Canal! She actually raised mice for the health department to study the effect the toxic chemicals had on birth defects.

  • @grmpEqweer
    @grmpEqweer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Something scary: fracking fluid can now be dumped on agricultural land. It can contain all sorts of contaminants, including radiation from radium deposits.

  • @sjpugsie
    @sjpugsie 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Hey Hank, big fan! I worked at the top 2 and a short stint with # 6 on your list. Guess what, huge neurologic and autonomic health problems. In case you were (really) wondering, that stuff will mess you up. Then there were others that didn't experience the same problems.

    • @mindycatriz5195
      @mindycatriz5195 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Steven Puglisi
      You worked on the issue @ Reed Keppler Park/ Kerr- McGee? Grew up there, played at the park. Always wondered if the cancer in my family & my best friend was caused by the Thorium ...

  • @nacoran
    @nacoran 8 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Yea!!! We made the list!!! HUDSON RIVER in the HOUSE!!!
    FML.

  • @Caleb.Brockie
    @Caleb.Brockie 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    You forgot to talk about the Hanford Nuclear Site in Washington State that has nuclear waste leaking into the Columbia river

  • @zekenelsons2069
    @zekenelsons2069 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love that this got rec'd now. East Palestine, OH is about to get added to this list lol

  • @spudnugget6255
    @spudnugget6255 8 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I just discovered this channel today, and I love it. o-o

  • @Vinnini
    @Vinnini 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Since Asheville is on the list, might as well throw in the Duke Energy coal ash spill in the Dan River.

  • @stephenbrand5661
    @stephenbrand5661 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    When I looked it up I found evidence of there being 43 EPA Superfund sites in my grandmother’s small town in New Jersey less than 10 miles outside of Manhattan.

    • @BrentTJo
      @BrentTJo ปีที่แล้ว +1

      New Jersey is the worst, if you look at the national map of superfund site all states have many of them but New Jersey is completely covered with dots.

  • @daffers2345
    @daffers2345 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I remember the anthrax scare. People were warned to watch out for letters with dust in them.
    There was one year when an elementary school in my district was moldy when school started. Some mold had gotten into the air conditioning units and spread all over the building. They had to shut down the building for some time and send the kids to other school buildings for classes while they cleaned it up.

  • @A1Sauce_
    @A1Sauce_ 8 ปีที่แล้ว +352

    8: Most of your CSGO teammates.

  • @the11382
    @the11382 7 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    How about Flint, Michigan?

    • @davidfortier6976
      @davidfortier6976 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's a different sort of issue. Lethally flawed plumbing is different from contaminated soil. The end result is about the same though, probably worse.

  • @myrobotfish
    @myrobotfish 8 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Just lost a little respect for GE. Come on, how do these companies go about dumping shit without considering the consequences? I understand it's often times an accident, but there are still plenty of incidents where they deliberately chose the cheap route (though it would come back to bite them after all the lawsuits).

    • @zeevtarantov
      @zeevtarantov 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-became-duponts-worst-nightmare.html?smid=re-share

    • @osmarbatalha6831
      @osmarbatalha6831 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Money

    • @cpob2013
      @cpob2013 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      a lot of these were from before people realized what pollution really was

    • @myrobotfish
      @myrobotfish 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Connor O'Brien Um, all of these were from like the past 60 years. We've known what pollution is for _way_ longer than that. This isn't the industrial revolution or something

    • @slipknotboy555
      @slipknotboy555 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +PROgrammer8 Exactly. If I remember right, problems with pollution have been known since at least the 60s, if not before

  • @kayleighfredericks5495
    @kayleighfredericks5495 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very apt that it was recommended to me now, when the CDC was sent to East Palestine, Ohio within the past few days because of a train derailment that held toxic chemicals, and yesterday, Jimmy Carter's family announced he is in hospice.

  • @MrJesusdoesntsave
    @MrJesusdoesntsave 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I've fallen in the hole.. just binged like 30 of these vids

  • @WilliamHostman
    @WilliamHostman 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Most of the former Air Force Stations in Alaska are superfund sites... Galena, Clear, Shemya...

    • @Nicholas-f5
      @Nicholas-f5 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Military is criminally trashy.

    • @PhoenixAngel429
      @PhoenixAngel429 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Fort Wainwright was declared one in 1991. And I was born there in 1990..... O_O

  • @madeline9538
    @madeline9538 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    learned about anthrax from my bacterial diseases class in college... probably my favorite class ever tbh

  • @l.m.2404
    @l.m.2404 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This video is now 6 years old. I would really like to see an update episode. Thanks.

  • @Malidictus
    @Malidictus 8 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    I may be hearing this wrong, but it sounds like Hank is talking about "superfun" sites, which seems... Funny, somehow.

    • @DBZHGWgamer
      @DBZHGWgamer 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      When i learned about these in high school, i thought the teacher was saying "superfun sites" for about two weeks before I got to the test and saw it was superfund, not superfun.

    • @DBZHGWgamer
      @DBZHGWgamer 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      ***** They do, but I don't read them usually, and i was absent from school the day she went over the powerpoint.

    • @DBZHGWgamer
      @DBZHGWgamer 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      ***** Uh, what is this word "study" you speak of? I ace all my tests just attending class.

    • @Whatwhat3434
      @Whatwhat3434 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +DBZHGWgamer that'll change kiddo

    • @hmnsdnssx
      @hmnsdnssx 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +James Scott They're mostly online now. ;)

  • @michellevarner7922
    @michellevarner7922 8 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    What about the Hanford site? Isn't that the biggest superfund site we have? From plutonium production for the manhattan project?

    • @crypticgaming4485
      @crypticgaming4485 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I don't think many people know about that so I would keep quiet unless you wanna get abducted by the secret police.

    • @crypticgaming4485
      @crypticgaming4485 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Im joking.

    • @William-Morey-Baker
      @William-Morey-Baker 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      i was thinking the same thing, the Hanford site is still taking lives...

    • @SnoopieSnoop
      @SnoopieSnoop 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yup, i live by Hanford site. Pretty common for someone to get cancer from working there. My coworker's husband who worked there got cancer last year. On our local tv stations we get ads that inform past workers they get special benefits even after retirement since cancer will hit them. Pretty sad but that place pays well for the risk. I heard janitors make about $25 an hr. Would i do it? Nope.

    • @andreykoptelev6415
      @andreykoptelev6415 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ticking time bomb, yeah, like the 65' long crack in the Wanapum dam in 2014. That made me pucker. All these wildfires are a reassuring thing to me, no rain, no stress on the dam. And then we get the yearly average in 2 months...

  • @BuddyLee23
    @BuddyLee23 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I'm surprised that the Hanford nuclear site wasn't listed among these, since there wasn't really a strong showing of anything else nuclear related. Hanford had to be one of the worst and even now they are still working on the site and/or the surrounding areas.

  • @nathanmiller1383
    @nathanmiller1383 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice! New holiday vacation bucket list

  • @krys889
    @krys889 8 ปีที่แล้ว +187

    8. The FNAF Fanbase

    • @elusivejet2846
      @elusivejet2846 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha.

    • @xkamakaziwolfx
      @xkamakaziwolfx 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      someones fee fee's are hurt

    • @elusivejet2846
      @elusivejet2846 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Cynic Yay do not Nerdcubed

    • @elusivejet2846
      @elusivejet2846 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Cynic And wow you joined in July 2015 your pretty new to TH-cam

    • @TheMetallicReaper
      @TheMetallicReaper 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The join date on accounts doesn't really represent how long someones actually been on youtube. I've been using since roughly 2010, but I make new accounts every now and then so my join date is much later.

  • @Medic19039
    @Medic19039 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    WHEN YOU SAID MISSOULA I GOT SO HAPPY (not in the toxic water context lol) I JUST MOVED HERE AND IVE BEEN WATCHING THIS SHOW FOREVER AND I DIDNT EVEN KNOW THAT YOU GUYS WERE HERE 😂

    • @hailervin
      @hailervin 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me too I live in Helena though but I moved here from Alabama of all places.

    • @anniepettersen878
      @anniepettersen878 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lol yeah whenever I here Montana I get really excited because people actually remember we're a state😂

    • @MrDeathBunny
      @MrDeathBunny 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same!! I'm in Poplar

    • @ryanm3749
      @ryanm3749 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@anniepettersen878 I wish they would forget, they keep coming here and screwing things up.

    • @cheems6373
      @cheems6373 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      its weird seeing people from montana online cause it just feels like I forgot other people lived here asdfyujhgfgj

  • @sancharino6878
    @sancharino6878 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Lol #1 love canal. I'm watching this on 97st in approximately fifty yards from the fence.

    • @beebeemcgee4047
      @beebeemcgee4047 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sanch Arino I'm on 67th 😉

    • @weathermayne61
      @weathermayne61 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm less than an hour from Asheville :)

    • @mdenz3
      @mdenz3 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Go pee on it.

  • @transce
    @transce 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Yeah, this is what happens when you don't have (or dismantle) environment protections.

  • @Anonymous-md5qz
    @Anonymous-md5qz 7 ปีที่แล้ว +158

    *8# Walmart*

    • @cathygriffith746
      @cathygriffith746 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Anonymous 14567 . IS THIS WALMART. WILL NOT COMMENT TILL I HEAR FROM YOU. DON'T KNOW. WALHELL IS

    • @neilisbored2177
      @neilisbored2177 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      9. Florida

    • @247sapphire
      @247sapphire 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Number 15 Burger King foot lettuce

    • @lauranyc4966
      @lauranyc4966 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      100%!!!

    • @lowlifeangler
      @lowlifeangler 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Walmart, Chillicothe,OH

  • @thatRyzzle
    @thatRyzzle 8 ปีที่แล้ว +381

    It's really fun to see how we humans treat Earth. And by fun I mean depressing.

    • @JohnArktor
      @JohnArktor 8 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Not humans. Only capitalist uncaring parodies of human beings who would sell their own mothers if it weren't already done. Not all humans bear the responsabilities of these corporate criminals against Humanity and Earth.

    • @thatRyzzle
      @thatRyzzle 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @JohnArktor Fair point, I guess. Still, it's depressing.

    • @amarillorica
      @amarillorica 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Check out george carlin, the earth is doing fine worry about yourself.

    • @bayouboyy
      @bayouboyy 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Not just humans. Cyanobacteria's destruction of Earth's atmosphere has persisted for over 2.5 billion years. The level of climate change they perpetrated is beyond any scale we can imagine today. So complete was their destruction of the environment that they caused the extinction of a multitude of species on a scale that has never been seen since.

    • @krillissue
      @krillissue 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      in its current state, conservation effort is basically like bribing the landlord with milk and cookies so you don't get kicked to the curb.
      True, Earth is doing fine, but I like a good nice roof over my head thank you very much. So more milk and cookies, and perhaps actual cooperation and funding for the issue.

  • @christinahunt9644
    @christinahunt9644 8 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    "The Love Canal"
    Does anyone else think that Hank was really tempted to include a subtle vagina joke? XD

    • @bloodyshanex7883
      @bloodyshanex7883 8 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      no

    • @duckman2376
      @duckman2376 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      no

    • @ashlaskash
      @ashlaskash 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yep.

    • @UltraGamma25
      @UltraGamma25 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      why would he? he doesn't seem too interested in the topic it seems. Also, no one says "vagina" it's pussy.

    • @TorquemadaTwist
      @TorquemadaTwist 8 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Just because this problem came from a company named Hooker doesn't mean... Wait a minute

  • @robj2704
    @robj2704 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    For a number of years, I used to pass by the CTS site on my work. I remember, suddenly, one day it was declared a Superfund site. But, for whatever reason, seems it took a good ten years for the EPA to do anything about it.

  • @paulmanly1990
    @paulmanly1990 8 ปีที่แล้ว +170

    How about the Blizzard forums? Each one of em.

    • @paulmanly1990
      @paulmanly1990 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh wait, that is most salty.

    • @stxnw
      @stxnw 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Paul Manly HAHAHAHA THATS FUNNY.
      fuck off dry fuck

    • @illusiveman9512
      @illusiveman9512 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Sanders > Trump/Hillary, when you think about it he's one of the better ones.

    • @maiqtheliar301
      @maiqtheliar301 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      M'iaq for president

    • @ChangelingKingdom
      @ChangelingKingdom 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Paul Manly a

  • @sricharan679
    @sricharan679 8 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    the "c" in love canal is essential :3

  • @vhaalgorn
    @vhaalgorn 7 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    The most toxic place in the world is the in-game chat of League of Legends

    • @eggroll3055
      @eggroll3055 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @ 4chan took down an entire religion, my dude.

  • @alex-po2lr
    @alex-po2lr 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Hudson river isn’t the only superfund site in the area. In the 60’s and 70’s, Ford motors dumped insane amounts of toxic chemicals (mostly paint sludge) into empty mine shafts on Ramapough lenape tribal land. It has been delisted and relisted from the Superfund priority list multiple times and they still haven’t been able to fully clean the area. Children were especially attracted to the colorful paint sludge. Even to this day Ramapough families have hugely elevated rates of cancer and other illnesses

  • @joshstans
    @joshstans 8 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    So basically they just moved shit around. "Yay we cleaned this land fill by moving contaminates to a different landfill" lol how the hell does that fix anything?

    • @Shattered_Universe
      @Shattered_Universe 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Energy Man it does so mostly because the previous sites had insufficient control mechanisms to prevent the material from escaping into the surrounding environment, whereas the new sites would be better equipped to handle the material.

    • @p51mustang24
      @p51mustang24 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      you move it to a site where leeching is not a concern.

    •  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      a landfill is a leeching concern
      you can use semantics but that will just indicate to others how willing you are to ignore the facts

    • @henrybyers5557
      @henrybyers5557 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @ leaching is a concern no matter where you put the waste (short of specialized pollutant-specific measures like glass fusing for radioactive waste). A well designed landfill with a waterproof lining and active leachate pumping and treatment systems is the best we can do for large scale waste containment.

  • @terencetam2122
    @terencetam2122 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    5:19 so does that mean I may be entitled to financial compensation?

  • @ShakespeareCafe
    @ShakespeareCafe 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Bio-remediation is the answer...selecting bacteria and fungi that can both metabolize the toxic substances or sequester them for safer disposal.

    • @nobodysbaby5048
      @nobodysbaby5048 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just saw a clip that said fungi can uptake both toxins & radioactivity.

  • @snookieg2409
    @snookieg2409 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I live in southeast Kansas, not too far from a superfund site: Pitcher, OKlahoma. It was a mess to get cleaned and a mess to get people evacuated and resettled. The whole thing, soup to nuts, was a chaotic mess. My heart really went out to those people. Great video!!

  • @cbishop41483
    @cbishop41483 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Wow if I had had a child at the time that was lost due to this bs id be pretty damned mad, yet corporations continue to do it in other countries as well without recourse. How lost we are.

  • @EMAngel2718
    @EMAngel2718 8 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    How about you say "corporations" instead of "we", since 99% of people aren't making these decisions?

    • @rstriker21
      @rstriker21 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      There are still humans making these decision, at least I think so...

    • @EMAngel2718
      @EMAngel2718 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +StrikePlaysGames 99%

    • @NightDoge
      @NightDoge 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Pikirion Mallea -- most of us? some of us? Will that do?

    • @EMAngel2718
      @EMAngel2718 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Rainbow Bubbles
      Some of us I guess. I just don't think it's fair to blame the entirity of humanity for the actions of the apathetic and powerful.

    • @EMAngel2718
      @EMAngel2718 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'd also like to apologise if I came off as aggressive, condescending, etc. That was not my intention.

  • @khein8921
    @khein8921 8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I feel like instead of just Love Canal, the entire city of Niagara Falls should have been on this list. Radioactive slag dump sites are popping up all over the city (there's roughly 100 known sites across western Niagara county, some of which our local government have known about since a study was conducted in the1970s), the air quality here is horrendous, and of course we have our ever growing mountain range the city calls the dump.

    • @lindahanahan1772
      @lindahanahan1772 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes incredibly they skipped over the Lewiston contamination site that borders the entire school district and homes they are containing or I should say leaking a majority of the Manhattan project there! When droves are getting thyroid cancer that lived there..this cannot be overlooked any longer!

  • @crhoades059
    @crhoades059 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There’s 3 out where I live near St. Louis Missouri that have quite a bad reputation, and for good reason. One was a town that was contaminated by dioxin, another was a uranium refinery that was buried under gravel, and the final is a landfill with nuclear waste in it that is on fire(or at least was).

  • @randomvideosn0where
    @randomvideosn0where 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    In addition to the pollution they have generated, GE doesn't pay a single cent in taxes. What a lousy company.

    • @DBZHGWgamer
      @DBZHGWgamer 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Blame Obama for literally creating tax cuts specifically designed for GE.
      I'm not kidding either. Obama tells them what all of the future tax cuts are going to be for their industry so they can set themselfs up to catch all of them.

    • @ewoodley82
      @ewoodley82 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I find it interesting that Obama is responsible for laws that were passed in the 1990s and early 2000s that precipitated much of General Electric's tax breaks. Especially since these were passed before he was even a senator(Last big tax break bill that benefitted them was passed in 2004, Obama didn't start serving in the Senate until 2005)

    • @DBZHGWgamer
      @DBZHGWgamer 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Eric Woodley I'm talking about recent clean energy tax cuts.

  • @Tiger-Baby
    @Tiger-Baby 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'd love a segment about areas on the planet, that are deemed inhabitable forever...
    And maybe how many new sites have been polluted since this episode... :)

    • @tunneloflight
      @tunneloflight ปีที่แล้ว

      Plutonium valley, Nevada Test Site. Central Hanford, Washington State. Savannah River site, South Carolina. To name but a few.

  • @TrunkyDunks
    @TrunkyDunks 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    dude wheres the hanford site????? clearly not a complete list!

    • @stockstreamtwitch
      @stockstreamtwitch 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Just read up on it. Damn that's a big cleanup. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site

    • @jimhofoss9982
      @jimhofoss9982 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      thought it would have made the top seven most toxic sites...

    • @Lolibeth
      @Lolibeth 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      they literally said here is seven of thousands, not here is ALL OF THEM

  • @gregnancyspear4367
    @gregnancyspear4367 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What about Hanford Washington? or Rocky Flats in Colorado?

  • @kevinsan2kml
    @kevinsan2kml 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1257

    league of Legends community ?

  • @BlakeTWiley
    @BlakeTWiley 5 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    Thought my Ex might be on the list.

    • @kylestanley7843
      @kylestanley7843 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There had to be one lol

    • @taizu55
      @taizu55 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ikr to find this comment here

  • @chasegilmond5637
    @chasegilmond5637 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Being from Missoula, I'm surprised you didn't mention the silver valley or the Libby vermiculite

    • @milarose5155
      @milarose5155 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Chase Gilmond what are those??

    • @BOBBERtheKID
      @BOBBERtheKID 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, they even glossed over the whole Butte/Anaconda mess in general. Figured at least the Anaconda Smelter would have got a footnote with all the Arsenic it blanketed all over the valley.

  • @grmpEqweer
    @grmpEqweer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I used to live near a very high level superfund site, one of the top ten...which was in a swamp, a floodplain of a nearby river, fed into a bay in which a lot of seafood production occurs...
    They did clean it up, bioremediated it, but it smells weird.
    What bright spark thought that was a good site???

  • @robbielosee
    @robbielosee 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Living less than a mile from the Hudson, I grew up beIng taught that we couldn't eat the fish. I am told the river used to look gross too. I take for granted that there are pcb's in there, but I would hardly call it "super toxic". I mean, I wouldn't drink from it, but I wouldn't think twice about wading into it.

  • @wlil8889
    @wlil8889 8 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    #8 Keemstar's Channel

  • @5674inCincy
    @5674inCincy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Now we're back to doing these same actions. Congress needs to take back its power.

  • @JonReams
    @JonReams 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I grew up near Fernald Feed Materials Production Center. They DOE enriched uranium for weapons use. It was shut down shortly after a whistleblower was found incinerated in one of the furnaces. Lovely sight today. Now it is a nature reserve although I highly recommend staying on the trails.

  • @jamesporter1991
    @jamesporter1991 8 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    The youtube comment section?

    • @backbutton7888
      @backbutton7888 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Instagram is worse.
      It’s HELL

  • @mulletsmith7844
    @mulletsmith7844 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Forgot Hanford with there radioactive wasps, an giant holding tanks leeking into the columbia

    • @rayj1131
      @rayj1131 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      You can’t spell and those tanks are too far from the River to be contaminating it.

    • @BeyondExtinctionLove
      @BeyondExtinctionLove 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rayj1131 its is far from the river however there is a huge illegally dumped area they are working on to stop it from entering groundwater.
      Rhe worst part of Hanford is its proximity to CGS nuke plant because they are both surrounded by active earthquake faults. If CGS has a meltdown, Hanford tanks would blow up in the two week minimum evacuation. Next to Fukushima, Hanford is the most dangerous toxic site on the planet.

  • @curtis133
    @curtis133 8 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    superfund... or Super FUN!

  • @sophierobinson2738
    @sophierobinson2738 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There was a super fund site in my little town, next to a creek (for some reason they call it a river), across the street from the elementary school. Someone said it was because of lead. It was fenced off, and looked like large piles of limestone rock. Never saw anything happening there. Now the gas station that was next to it expanded into a convenience store, covering the site.

  • @mohitagarwal8115
    @mohitagarwal8115 8 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Just don't misspell "superfund"

    • @MAR-wo4mc
      @MAR-wo4mc 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      let me guess if you misspell it, it will bring up something just as bad as blue waffle when you search it on google

    • @elchungo5026
      @elchungo5026 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      MAR5 no, it's spells "super funk" or "superfun"

    • @bitchwormpuddin1499
      @bitchwormpuddin1499 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Superluv

  • @stanfordcoffee
    @stanfordcoffee 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    8. My bathroom in the morning after the first cup of coffee.

  • @64dethray
    @64dethray 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    #8 My bathroom after a drunken Taco Bell binge.

  • @ReaganHautautamaki1984
    @ReaganHautautamaki1984 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    theres one on dixie farm and Interstate 45 by friendswood, tx called the brio supperfund site when they dumped waste until the mid 60s put dirt on top of it then built a neighborhood on top of the waste 10 years later.