The Love Canal Disaster: Toxic Waste in the Neighborhood | Retro Report | The New York Times
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- Retro Report: Thirty-five years after Love Canal became the symbol of the dangers of toxic waste in residential neighborhoods, the story has resurfaced.
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The Hooker Company dumped toxic waste in the Love Canal? You couldn't make that up.
Usually it's the john putting toxics into the hookers love canal.
Phil Rabe the hookers revenge
Do you think someone goes around and paints over the letter C in Love Canal?
Dane The Great probably
Dane The Great ok...that's not bad. Pretty funny.
Reminds me of how Flint Michigan still has poisonous lead water and the kids there have rashes and are developing serious conditions and disabilities due to lead poisoning to this current day.
Some are black, some are white. America treats them differently.
@@chukwudiilozue9171 had to make this a race problem?
Just to let you know Flintis 37 % white.
I was born and raised in flint. Still no clean water
Bettatrix the betta race is a big factor in Many American issues. We shouldn’t ignore it. Especially in Flint.
"Probably the safest place on the planet?" That guy is inhaling the Koolaid. He is delusional.
He is PAID, and that is all he is
maybe the chems got to him already
Hey hey calm down koolaid is fun to inhale😎
Kool-Aid in its gaseous form is what we call Copium.
OOH, YEAH!
I grew up in Niagara Falls just a few blocks away from Love Canal. I had friends who lived there and spent alot of time there. I witnessed my friends and their families have many health issues. My father lived in Love Canal as a kid and died of cancer and I often wonder if Love Canal played a part. My Dad said as a kid black tar substance would ooze out of the ground and they would dig at it with sticks. My Grandfather was a pipe fitter who did the plumbing on alot of these houses on the side and said the basements had an odor that would burn your eyes and make them water. Niagara Falls is filled with chemical dump sites, its not just Love Canal. Cancer runs rampant in Niagara Falls and many of my family members died of cancer. I left the city 25 years ago and relocated to Florida, it was the best decision I have ever made.
That's awful and disgusting ASF!!!😤😤🤬🤬🤬🤮🤮 I'm so very sorry you and your family and friends had to deal with that, that's traumatic 😭😭😭😭 I hope you are doing ok medically and are staying healthy. *Ormus* has been known to help regenerate the cells in your body and help produce new ones. I take it and my health has increased alot. I give some to my son every now and then and he is above average in his cognitive skills. He is almost three and he can name all the shapes, colors, say the alphabet fluently. He has been able to count to 20 for quite some time now and can memorize short books. He has only been sick once!!! He got the beer bug and he got through it in under 12 hours😮😮 So I'm betting there is something to it☺️☺️ definitely check it out!!💚💚💚 many prayers to you, your family and friends 🙏🙏🙏💜💜💜💜
My husband hung out with a bunch of people from the neighborhood. He said the same thing. We're still local, but not so close. I hope you are doing well 😊
I love these Retro Reports! Excellent information on important news stories!
C Charles I think I had something to do today, then I found retro reports
Brendon Scherer MOOD
Am I only one who's wondering why the government doesn't do something similar for Flint? Flint STILL DOESN'T HAVE CLEAN WATER. IN 2018. IN A DEVELOPED COUNTRY. WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING.
2019 and we still don't have clean water
Mindy Schumacher Depopulation! They created it .
I totally agree. They are too worried that you all might live and sue them.
They don't have water because of government corruption, their government has had the money to fix it but wont
Flints contaminated water is from car manufacturers and toxic industries I learned on ytube.... It blew me from my feet....
It's unbelievable to me that the US is currently de-regulating companies and their pollutants and de-funding the EPA. What do people think is going to happen?
Briana Peterson regulation is basically the government saying “Hey, don’t pollute the water” Laws are where the government says” Hey, if you pollute the water your going to jail” I would much rather have these companies shut down than the government sending out some stupid email about the latest regulations they should probably follow.
Maybe it's different in your country? In the US regulatory agencies like the EPA are part of the executive branch of government - they execute the rule of law established by the legislative and judicial branches of government. So it's weird to me, this argument you have, because in actuality it falls under the jurisdiction of agencies like the EPA to enforce the rule of law and prosecute trespassers. I'm not sure where you are getting your information from - maybe the organization of government is different in your country I don't know. But in the US regulation is given power and/or made into law by congress, and those powers and/or laws are executed by executive branch agencies in the federal government.
@@briganja lost person: Ninja1inblack
History will repeat itself.
East Palestine
It is naiv to think that you can just fill in the toxic hole and then hope it won't leak out in to the nearby areas and ground water.. What did they think would happen.
lurifix this was mainly Niagara Falls school board fault
The building of the neighborhood actually began several years prior to the building of the school, before the canal dump was filled in. The chemicals were in barrels that were sealed under a clay dome, which was the viable solution at the time. However, when the neighborhood was starting to be built, the clay dome was pierced as sewer lines were laid, allowing the chemicals to leak out as the barrels deteriorated. Furthermore, extensions of two streets that flanked the school, cut across the canal, adding more damage to the clay dome. Then, in 1962, the canal was breached again with the building of the LaSalle Expressway. All of this, plus the deterioration of the barrels and the Blizzard of 1977 brought it all to a head. Many people believe the chemicals were leaking years earlier. Children who lived in the new neighborhood in the 1940s claim there were "fire rocks" that sparked and exploded if they were hit and weird holes that would suddenly appear, sending black bubbles to the surface. Kids would throw rocks into the holes to burst the bubbles.
It can even go under a fence too. I cannot believe how stupid they are. How do they think the homes on the other side of fence are fine? You might keep people out but chemicals will go where they darn well please.
Monday morning quarterback
I live in Town of Tonawanda NY, 20 minutes from Love canal, my cousins lived on 81st street in the Falls, my cousin died of cancer at 40 years old, and his sister had some type of Epilepsy.
I am sorry this happened to your family. See even at 81st street it isn't safe. I bet if they did an update they would find new people who moved in the area with like problems.
That's horrible what your family has been through. This never should have been allowed to happen.
That's awful, your sister should get tested for heavy metals. Best wishes.
Rates of lymphoma have been elevated in Niagara's general population (above national averages) for 20+ years. Odd coincidence?
just found out I live like 3 minutes from the love canal. rip me
you good?
Love canal'd
East Palestine train derailment in February 2023, 11 days ago. Reminded of Love Canal whenever there is a chemical spill
Seeing how I live in the Buffalo-Niagara region, I've visited this site many times just to be reminded of how badly everybody can screw things up.
It’s interesting that the hydraulic cleaning of sewage pipes back in the mid-80’s was just for the inside of the pipe. As mentioned, in 2011 they found toxic waste outside of the sewage line, go figure.
I LIVE IN NIAGARA FALLS..ITS ACTUALLY WORSE..THE SMELL IS UNBEARABLE TIL THIS DAY…NOW AND WE HAVE THE HIGHEST POVERTY RATE AND VIOLENT CRIME RATE NOW AND THEY SUPPRESS THE NEWS..IF YOU SEE THIS HELP…
I learned about this in my high school forensic class and it was truly horrifying finding out about this.
I remember the Love Canal episode like it was YESTERDAY. I was eight years old then but I DO remember it being ALL OVER the news, both national AND EVEN on the local news here in central Mississippi where I’ve lived since mid-July 1977.
The company my dad and i work for helped clean up the area and we still have all the paperwork and samples in our warehouse still creeps me out to walk by it
Save those!
@@therealpathynes most of it is so rat eaten and moldy it’s useless but every few years the EPA or some lawyers want to look at it
Do you think someone goes around and paints over the letter C in Love Canal?
Dane The GreatAs a resident of the area I can say, unfortunately that opportunity hasn’t been seized.
As a resident of the area myself, I can promise you sir, this WILL be done as soon as the weather permits
... yes, and that probabilty will now be greater due to your honest comment . i say remove the C and add the ? 😚
@@coldsake07 ofcourse, and thank you sir 😊
@@mikefresca2758 ... i am not in that area, .. unfortunately 😚
Were the city planners of Love Canal like, "let's just dump toxic waste underneath a town so that no one will notice."?😒
The place used to be a canal that was abandoned and the local industries dumped their chemicals there. As a result of urban expansion, homes were built around it. There was a school built and the property was originally purchased for $1. Yes, only one dollar. I would know. I'm a local and my husband grew up with kids who lived there. Chemicals are still being dug up. Love Canal will always be a tragedy...
Let’s not forget that Times Beach had to also be evacuated because a local company sprayed chemicals on Times Beach’s dirt roads to keep snow off them, but didn’t know the chemicals were toxic.
I love these retro videos. I remember so many of these growing up in the 80's
For those that are wondering why Flint still doesn't have clean water, look at the residents of Love canal and look at the residents of Flint.
Here we go...
Here in pitman nj we had to deal with lapari landfill, that sucker killed a couple dozen
so who thinks defunding the EPA is a good idea?
TRUMP!!!
Morons who don't learn from the past.
Shouldn't defund it, but we need to prevent chemical industry CEOs from working there like a revolving door. Same thing happens with pharma/the FDA. The EPA makes laws that benefit the oil/chemical industries making them VASTLY less effective. It's impotent basically.
Maybe if they still dealt with actual problems like toxic waste instead of ramming in stupid CO2 rules for vehicles people would still like them
Fals3Agent, You mean the Same EPA that dumped toxic water in Utah and Colorado?
www.denverpost.com/2018/04/11/sunnyside-golden-corp-epa-colorado-water-pollution/amp/
Back in my hometown in Salisbury NC my cousins have recently contracted skin cancer and issues and recently the city has limited their time to take showers and bring in bottled water. My relatives ended up moving. No news of clean up.
I'm sure that concrete containment holds up really well with the seasonal freezing and melting. It's totally safe.
Prayers for East Palestine/Columbiana County ... my former home many years ago 🙏
The media has been VERY silent of that chemical disaster of the last 2 years.
Before the news became "Entertainment" and had personhood status.
The only way to "fix" that place is to completely dig it out and package it in polyethylene drums and take it out to the remote desert and keep it contained and monitored where it is dry. The ground in that area is a saturated sponge. Overfilled and overburdened. Give yourselves a future. Follow those reccomendations and maybe then you would be good. I understand it takes alot of money to cleanup. Really poly drums dont cost that much. You need a bunch of plastic and elbow grease and a dry dropoff secure storage area. Everything takes work. Leaving it there is irresponsible. Enough said. Thanks.
I used to live up that way a hundred miles east. They have frost heave. Doesn't seem a very good spot to do a cap and forget sort of scenario.
The chemicals in these drums would melt the drums. You'd have an even bigger mess.
And actually, that site was chosen as it had a very thick clay seal around it; it was meant to stop any chemical leakages. In fact, the site actually exceeded pollution standards for the time. The only reason the chemicals leaked is because the school board and town developers pierced the clay dome to build roads and sewage systems, allowing it to leak out.
And this is why we need regulations!!!
Back in the Seventies when democracy still worked.
I live five minutes away from Edith Avenue Landfill. They opened it 1974 for tornado debris. But, over the decades, everything was dumped in it. They have capped it over and made a soccer field on top of it. Louder than Life concert disrupted the clay seal and made it leak into Beargrass Creek.
Back in 2010, my grandmother passed away, and I moved into her house in Kearny, New Jersey, to fix it up and sell it.
The house was close enough to Manhattan that you could see the Chrysler and Empire State buildings out the window.
One day I decided to do a little detective work, and I found evidence of there being at least 43 EPA Superfund sites in the town of Kearny alone!!
Despite that fact, we were able to sell the house for $60k more than our asking price after only two days on the market!!
The guy that says that it the safest place on earth should be forced to live there.
And drink and bathe in that water.
Reminds me of Times Beach Missouri,similar thing happened around the same time.
Wow, that's a HUGE LANDFILL. We have a covered up landfill in my neighborhood. Edith Ave Landfill. It's five minutes away. Soccer Field now. But has a clay mask on it.
I don't understand how people went and lived there a second time. Its not a secret, you know what's under the ground but then you are surprised when you and your family get sick.
Its obvious that the people who were affected deserve compensation, however, this video failed substantially in the terms of who was responsible. The Hooker Chemical Company (Now owned by Occidental Petroleum) was essentially forced to sell the land by the Niagara Falls School Board via imminent domain to build a school and the notorious surrounding neighborhood. The deed to the land even explicitly described the location and nature of the waste that was (at that time legally) buried there to limit the liability. And in the end it was the "evil corporation" that was punished for the aftermath and not the NF School Board. American justice at work is a beautiful thing isn't it?
+lovinjunk95 I too read this in other articles and totally blame the school board. I find it hard to believe Hooker Chemical lost considering what was in the deed. But yes a thief can break into my house, get injured, sue me and win. Justice couldn't work any better huh?
Every man with cancer should get a rifle and show up at the doorstep of the people responsible; any officer who stands in the way of justice is a servant of the greedy, not the people. Police should use their guns to shoot them; but since they won't, then real men will have to stand up.
Really? That certainly puts a different spin on things. Thanks for mentioning this
'The incidence of birth defects and chromosomal disorders wasn't any higher at Love Canal than in the rest of Niagara County.' Well that's not saying much. Niagara County at that time was chock full of toxic chemical industries who left brownfields and Superfund sites all over the place, not to mention part of the Manhattan Project. You'd have to do a comparison of communities outside of Niagara County to actually get good data. *eyeroll*
You said it before I could! Absolute facts! As a person born and raised in Niagara County, I'm screwed!
@@kimberlylamantia7794 I liked your reply just to say I hear you, not saying that it's good we might get sick from all these industrial remnants. It's sad to think about even though I love it here.
Nice to see its 2020 and nothing has changed!
I live a hop and a skip away from Cold Water Creek in Missouri where those living around it have had a multitude of cancers affect them because of the radioactivity that was near by and i haven't heard if anythings been done about
better check that 😚
"Someone's been a bit untidy, and there's been a small spill... not a lot, no, just a drop... there you are mistaken, you know you are!"
10000 maniacs
1:07 “A Legacy of Doubt” could be the title of any Retro Report
Another great report. As italian, there really is no better way to know american issues, than these NYT reports.👍
pffft! i'd rather take my chances walking through the projects in a versace suit and rolex than buy a cheap house in love island....
There was a housing project adjacent to Love Canal. This poor, primarily African American community received and continues to receive comparatively little media attention. Has anyone come across any media coverage concerning this community, or concerning residents of the low-income senior housing facility built on the site of the former housing project?
Environmental racism. It's definitely a thing. Reminds me of the time the gov't in New Orleans purposefully flooded the Lower 9th Ward so that the more expensive white neighborhoods could be spared. Easy to see why African Americans and other communities of color find it difficult to trust the gov't to protect us --- we're not a priority, we're just in the way.
Nevada Polite
A friend's mum lived there & her husband & 3 kids all died from cancer.
She remarried & moved; had my friend & 2 more kids.
Her mum died of cancer a few years later. No compensation.
No one in power truly cares... 💔😢
#EndSystemicBias
#BLM
#ONELOVE
Angelica Rodriguez
It breaks my heart-Racism & Systemic Biases stoke the fire for Justice in my heart & I'll always choose to promote Education & Loving Egalitarianist Social Reformations 'til I'm dead. I live to love my kids & conquer apathy/hatred/fear/injustice.
I'm so very sorry for the wrongs you've experienced. 💔😢💗💗✊🏼xoxo
#BLM
#ProBlackIsntAntiWhite
#OneLove
#ChoosePeace
#MelaninIsntASin
#ImagineLivingLifeInPeace
#MeToo
+Mark Park god i hope youre not serious
I've wondered about that myself. I've tried to find information on the Griffith Apartments, but have found very little, just some aerial photos. I have found nothing on the senior housing facility. It boggles the mind how quickly those were put up and that people even live there. I have heard rumors that turnover is quick in those apartments as people seem to sicken and die quickly.
Edith Avenue Landfill is now Champions Park. Louder than Life concert held on the site. Rain & mudd, vehicles breached the seal on the old landfill.
VERY NICE, but have them check for toxicity levels and identify and treat or remove those portions 😊 👍
And in 2019, we have a couple extra chemical plants still here, creating toxic fumes in the air every night.
If you create chemical compounds the right way,and the safe way the first time and everything, chemical compounds can be synthesized without any negative impact on the environment. Unfortunately, when shortcuts are taken, catastrophe is inevitable 😕
We have a few landfills in Louisville Kentucky. One of them they're building a botanical gardens on top of an old landfill near the Ohio River. We have a soccer field in top of the old Edith Avenue landfill.
I live in western NY and have seen this place several times driving by it. its not much to look at just a grass field, but to think that the POTUS declared a state of emergency and people got sick and died from it is just mind boggling. if your not paying attention you can drive by it and not even notice it.
Because it looks like a forested few streets makes it seem like nothing ever happened. Then again, NF can't even fix their potholes, so why would they help any residents? 🤯
Well, with a name like 'Hooker Chemical Company', I can't say I'm all that surprised. lol
It only takes one person to get the word out. How could a country allow this to happen. I would love to see the uppers living there.
back in the days when the EPA wasn't being gutted and dismantled!
It was only formed in 1970.
Is that Michael Moore at 8:00?
Juho Kim I think it was....
Indeed, yes. He was asking sarcastically about the "good deal" on refurbished homes in the area!
Maybe not because he wasnt eating a hot dog with mustard stains!
Yes, that was a younger version of Michael Moore, who was also a few hundred pounds lighter.
8:24 "3.6 Roentgen Not Great Not Terrible"
As soon as I heard that guy had pancreatic cancer at 9:34, I knew he was most likely a goner :(
That is the worst cancer, most people don't survive it. By the time it's diagnosed, it's already too late. Scientists need to find a way to detect it early in routine tests. There is no reason cancer should be a death sentence in the 21st century. Come on.
This would make a great third season of American Crime Story
One of the worst things about this story is the fact that, there was a public housing project that was put at the end of the line even though they were just as close to the canal as these homeowners is absolutely a travesty.
Does anybody know if any repairs or replacement has gone on with the landfill cap? I feel like weather might cause erosion of a clay cap. I also wonder if modern engineers have done any studies on the engineering of the cap done at that time.
+Jenna Palmer Its a clay cap that includes a plastic liner over top that is covered over with topsoil. The water from snow and rain rolls down the to the sides of the canal site where it can drain into the drainage system. During the cleanup project they built a water treatment plant that treats all the water collected by the drainage system which is then discharged into the Niagara River. Generally the site is covered in grass and no trees are allowed to grow across the top of the clay cap, but otherwise its unassuming.
+KeoniPhoenix I wondered if it was clay. Thanks for the response.
These caps tend to leak. Here in Houston we have the San Jacinto river which has a superfund cap. Well it has been leaking dioxins into the river and galveston bay for a long time.
+3lectronic_rock3r I've dealt with closed landfill caps and I know how the leachate leaks through. I just assumed because no cap is truly non-permeable
The 46 acre seam-sealed polyethylene liner installed overtop of the actual chemical landfill intended to keep rainwater out (which would cause leachate propagation) was installed in 1980, and was stated to have a 25 to 30 year life expectancy. It would seem we are 6 to 11 years overdue seeing the grass and 3 feet of soil on top removed, and the liner inspected or replaced.
It's absolutely crazy that ppl anywhere near the contamination site were sold homes. Those chemicals don't have boundaries and will be there for millions of years. For the people that knew about Love canal and bought houses near there anyway, I don't understand how they would think it's safe.
But the soil around those homes wasn't replaced. Did they just let it pass into the water table?
No, the landfill is covered with clay and a plastic tarp. This seals the waste off and allows any water that percolates down into a trench where it is fed to a special treatment center before being treated along with local sewage. They also have several wells around the site to monitor for any chemicals leaking out. Moving the waste would have been extremely difficult as it's a tar like substance that couldn't be pumped out easily, it was better to just contain it as best as possible.
Shameful conduct on the part of the military for conducting nuclear weapon tests in Australia, where the Aborigine people lived. They are still there, and no doubt having serious health issues due to the radiation.
So stupid to had moved back into Love Canal..
Sadly
All it will take is one earthquake to ruin Love Canal.
do not let the deaths of joseph retton and others be forgotten, these are real people, someones children with hopes and dreams, fathers, brothers, sisters and mothers not just statistics on a pie chart. so many lives changed all because of greed. its shameful
c.a. greene And buy products like Seventh Generation and Nature's Gate. When you buy paints, solvents, plastics, pesticides, even cosmetics with "microbeads" you are poisoning the planet and yourselves. We've just moved the problem over to China and India and have gotten better at containing end-user waste over here. Remember Bhopal, Love Canal, etc. There is no responsible place to move benzene, PCBs, lead, BPA.
tragic
Sadly, this type of contamination by corporations and government complicity (or very slow reactions) has been common even now. Look at the recent spills in West Virginia and North Carolina in 2014 where the governor was a former employee of the company that caused the problem or where the last time the facility was checked for safety was back in 1992! Those powerful group just take advantage of the near impossibility of proving the direct link between toxins they discharge and human health effects and also lobby governments to make sure few regulations are there (and weak enforcement mechanism) to protect the public. Like the example above, many government officials have close ties with industries. Like the aftermath of 2010 BP oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana, these companies can put out multi-million dollar ad campaigns to dupe the public that everything is back to normal while putting a gag order to residents who accept their compensation money (i.e., they cannot speak to the media or the public about their experience). Recently, BP got a nice contract for deep water drilling again from the federal government. This is the same for the booming natural gas drilling around the country and human health effects and environmental pollution. The same old story continues at great human and environmental costs because some people benefits from it.
greenredish, The Government seized that land using Eminent Domain and built on it after being warned of why it can not be built on or around.
Was capped nothing done....a lot of talk. People live near there now.
How much money would it cost just to dig up the entire area and get rid of the toxic waste so people can actually be safe knowing the area is clean
Chemical companies need to be held more accountable for the waste they produce, and I say this as someone who's worked for big companies that produce nasty chemicals.
The Phantom Safety Pin, The school board released the chemicals after being warned of the danger and explicitly told not to develop that land.
The Edith Avenue Landfill is still there. I drove passed it today. I Can't Believe that These Soccer players and other young people playing on this ground. THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEIR LITTLE SWEETHEARTS ARE PLAYING ON. IT'S A LANDFILL. LOUDER THAN LIFE BROKE THE CLAY SEAL. THESE KIDS ARE PLAYING ON IT!!!!!!!! It's leaking into the Beargrass Creek. I have swimmed naked in the creek. But, even I didn't know about the Edith Avenue Landfill.
I've never heard of that place but will educate myself about it. I hope you and the soccer players don't have any I'll effects. I'm praying for all of y'all 🙏💓
11:02 hey, it's Ed Begley Jr!
Wait I’m sorry, WHAT. They spent so long trying to get folks out just to let them move back in?? Who would bring their families there willingly??
Oh buddy must think we're dumb. One if the safest places to live? Lmfao
I LIVE IN NIAGARA FALLS..ITS ACTUALLY WORSE..THE SMELL IS UNBEARABLE TIL THIS DAY…NOW AND WE HAVE THE HIGHEST POVERTY RATE AND VIOLENT CRIME RATE NOW AND THEY SUPPRESS THE NEWS..IF YOU SEE THIS HELP…
This is some "Erin Brockovich" sounding sh!t.
Very much so.
August of ''78 i was almost 5 months old
Dude at 8:27 speaks like joe Pesci
THE EDITH AVENUE LANDFILL IN LOUISVILLE, AND LOVE CANAL IN CANADA WILL ALWAYS LEAK. STAY AWAY FROM THESE LANDFILLS.
How did it get the name love canal.
Soo... 6 families moved to houses build on land with known chemical waste, then they file lawsuits when workers found some? Somehow i can’t wrap my head around that. Even if the site was declared ”safe to live on”, it still couldn’t be that much of a shock that more chemicals could be found in the future
today seethis guys in Costarica reventaron el chante❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
Just another story,oh wait thats kinda close to where I live.
Yeah, we have government run monitoring wells, we are on top of this 🙄
Sure you can trust the government. Said no Indian EVER!
*HOOKER'S LOVE CANAL FILLED WITH TOXIC SLUDGE* - is a headline that probably didn't get used at the time. Shame.
They EVEN BLOCK EDITH AVENUE LANDFILL OFF. THEY SAID JUST WORKING ON THE SEWER LINE. THEY ARE TRYING TO CLEAN UP WHAT'S LEAKING OUT OF EDITH AVENUE LANDFILL.
How come you never mention that the town built on land the company warned them was extremely dangerous and should never be built on?
8:15 is that Ed Begley Jr taking part in the protest?
I have drive through the area, but I don't know if I found the specific site. Niagara Falls, New York doesn't really have a distinct "nice area".
Especially now, when I grew up there tourism was booming, factories were operating and jobs were plentiful. These days the city is in horrible condition. Crime unemployment, abandoned buildings everywhere its a sad decline of a once prospering city.
I left the city 25 years ago to relocate to Florida and it was the best decision I have ever made.
@@davidsiracuse6672 With the civil unrest in recent years and Covid I haven't been in the area for about three years now. Probably my longest time away since entering adulthood and having my own car. Hopefully in the spring I'll head back over.
@@seanwebb605 👍
Didn’t they have a film based on this.
It makes me so anxious....what the heck (wo)man is doing with mother earth....
Yeah,that's why 'we don't need government in our lives' :rollin eyes:
Well if you had half a brain and researched the entire incident you would have found out the waste was encased in a clay barrier. Which is the standard operating procedure to this day of waste disposal. Considering there wasn't really any law that governed waste disposal at that point in time, the company responsible went ABOVE and BEYOND was was deemed acceptable.
The Niagra Falls School Board obtain the land by pressuring the Hooker Chemical Company to sell. Rather than seeing the land be appropriated via eminent domain, they agreed to sell it for $1 and with the deed they told the School Board what was buried there and warned them it should not be developed. Guess what happened? The School Board did it anyway! Last I checked school boards have local government power. They didn't care, probably because they knew the spazzes like you would absolve them of any responsibility to blame the evil corporation with their evil profit motive.
emp0rizzle h
emp0rizzle
lol good one!
Book has a point
6:03 yay we can be wine-os again
How is that green fence not protecting everyone? 🤔
Tymes beach? Nobody remembers that
Flipper brought me here
I live in Love Canal and it is definitely monitored. Niagara Falls is already broke they can’t afford another lawsuit.
that first lady had a very think Carolina accent and shes from upstate new york
8:43 and the Titanic is unsinkable.
Why would you want to live any where near a toxic waste dump?
Burning Jimmy and Roslyn in effigy? Dang sorry I missed that!