I think the most shocking thing about the Love Canal disaster is that the big corporation actually didn't do anything wrong. They gave a full disclosure that the land they were selling was a toxic waste dump, and the school ignored it. Whenever an industrial disaster occurs, it's usually because of a negligent, greedy corporation.
I mean I'd argue just burying a bunch of hazardous waste hardly a few yards underground is "wrong" whether it was legal or not...Not even making sure the containers would hold. Even if no human had ever gone there it still would have harmed the environment and any animals that might have moved in.
I'm not really surprised. Public schools are government owned so blaming the corporation takes the burden and liability off the government. They knew the land was toxic but still built a school and housing. One thing I have learned watching Dark Records is the government will pin it on anyone to avoid accountability.
@@StonedHunteractually kinda wrong, the waste hooker buried was contained the same way that very waste is today. When they built neighborhoods and schools on top of it despite hooker telling the city not to, they broke the seal with sewer and water and gas piping. In all honesty, hooker didn’t do that much wrong. Greed and mismanagement of the corrupt city of Niagara Falls was truly to blame.
Make sure to file in Texas at a federal court. It prevents state level anti-SLAPP laws from kicking in and will be turned over the to most corporate friendly judicial circuit in the nation if you do happen to lose and want to appeal. 🤮
Try Hardy Brothers Australia.... A company that knowingly used Asbestos in gyprock, regardless of the many thousands of people who died from Mesotheilioma and Asbestos. Like my Mum.... The CEO's are truly Evil 😈
@@Siathuan Mustn't forget neither of them could do it without support from the good old US of A. If you threaten US business interests, you can and will find a carrier air group parked outside your capital.
The Texaco/Chevron one made me so angry. At the end of the day, it became so corrupt at the legal system, there was no hope. It’s not like Chevron can’t afford to clean up their mess that will now continue to affect multiple generations of indigenous peoples lives. And, of course, that very fact plays in at a major roll too, that it mostly affects indigenous people. So sad. I’m fuming.
I don't think there's a sumable cost that would clean up the rainforest in Ecuador; but the herculean task. I honestly don't think all the money in the world would clean up a toxic oil spill the size of Rhode Island. Love Canal, maybe. But the Amazon rainforest seems impossible 😕
The Chevron one pisses meboff so much. The fact that they got away with literal murder is absolutely absurd. The fact that Equador had to pay the criminals is heartbreaking. I will be trying to do more research into what gas/fuel/petroleum companies are affiliated with Texaco and Chevron. If at all possible, I will try to prevent myself from giving them any money. Dk if at all possible, but will definitely be doing research and attempting to do so. I know it isn't much, and in reality, doesn't actually effect them at all, but at least they won't get my money.
AND the fact that the lawyer, who deserves a global award, is instead (last i heard) living under eternal house arrest in NY, they wanna lock him up and throw away the key. Yeah, the whole case is a f*n DISGRACE😢
Well.....yeah that's there job? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 that's like saying cobalt miners be like "oh theres cobalt in this village"? "Guess theres no more village" like wow 😮 the village probably cost 10,000$usd to move realistically less than a days profits 😂😂😂
@@casperthelegend1458 Yea, no. Their job isn't to rip up pristine rainforest and leave it so polluted there was literally not a single clean spot to test in 2 million acres. But nice try. "tHeiR JoB" hahahahaha
@@FloralAndFire yeah well that wasn't your comment my dude 🤣 & if the rain Foret isn't protected by any laws or anything well yeah that is kinda there job my dude, kinda funny how it only widley happens in 3rd world shyt holes where the government officials can be paid off but I'm sure the countries these happen in are completely blameless aswell 😶
@@casperthelegend1458 Interestingly the courts in the "3rd world shyt hole" ruled it illegal, but the supposed first world country USA said it was fine. Because of course they did, it was a US company and the pollution didn't happen in the USA.
I'm a simple man. When I instantly recognize the thumbnail as the 99th street school at Love Canal during the later stages of remediation, I click the link and watch the video.
They sold it to them for a dollar, if I remember correctly. Reading about Love Canal as a kid made me permanently suspicious of real estate transactions between public entities and corporations.
The SL-1 nuclear power plant one must have been horrifying to walk into for the firefighters and other personnel. Limp bodies covered in blood, a guy not quite dead yet moaning out in pain but unable to say anything, radioactive air, a dead guy impaled in the ceiling probably dripping blood down, etc. nightmare fuel.
I’d heard that story before a while back. The detail regarding the guy pinned to the ceiling really stayed with me. I have ADHD. I don’t really retain most things memory-wise. I have never forgotten that. 😬
the guy pinned to the ceiling was sleeping with one of the other guys wife, the other guy was theorised to be the one who pulled the rod as a redrum/edicius incident
Unfortunately it applies to like 99% of oil and fuel companies. I used to work in contaminated land/environmental consulting specifically for fuel companies. It's astounding how little accountability they want to take - until they're threatened with fines or negative publicity. One of our clients sat on an issue for almost 20 years before an attorney moved into the area and inherited their contamination. When she threatened to go to news outlets and take em to court, they suddenly started remediation in no time. Better than settling over a million per household, I suppose.
@@fungicide9244 Ppl do not care enough to check. Plus oil is basicly the basis of the entire economy. And thus ppl alow the devil to run it. Cause whitout it there is no economie.
I took a college class on environmental disasters and one of the professors wrote a book on Love Canal and even he stresses just how badly Hooker Chemical tried to not have them build there. It eventually got to the point where they were like "We are telling you it's a very bad idea to build here. Don't put anyone here." Then they put an elementary school in that spot. They absolutely shouldn't have dumped the chemicals in the first place but for the city to just ignore all the warnings they gave is a failing in its own right.
as they sold it for $1 Eminent Domain doesn't seem like a real concern. The bigger question is did the school board know that it was contaminated ground? if no than Hooker Chemical is at fault for not disclosing that properly if Yes then the school board should be the ones held responsible. Not only did they build on land against the T&C of the sale. they then on sold contaminated land for others to build on.
@@dom3827I disagree. People learn just fine, and the case of Chevron isn't a matter of learning from mistakes - there were no mistakes to learn from. Chevron destroying a large swathe of the Amazon was a calculated move made by callous rich assholes that didn't care and who continue not to care because they have the money to bribe politicians and judges. We need to start demanding that these people be held to account and sent to prison for long periods of their lives after having their assets seized and redistributed.
The Osbourne Tire Reef incident is a very interesting case. Everybody thought that dumping a whole bunch of tires into the ocean to form an artificial coral reef would restore the ocean and make it a thriving wildlife paradise. Instead, it did the exact opposite and caused a humongous environmental disaster that killed thousands of marine organisms. Basically, if you want to dump something in the water, make sure it's environmentally friendly first.
Ignoring that the tiers turned out to be toxic, the original problem was too may of the tires were not secured properly. if the tiers were secured in large enough clumps that the wavers didn't move them, then it would have worked. well until they found out they were toxic
It's simple to understand that the tires were made of unnatural toxic material. People are so stupid. They killed trillions of marine life and it affected mankind in a negative impact in so many ways. Had I been aware in 1970 this was on the agenda even with a basic education of biology I would have known.
This incident confuses me so much. Did none of them ask a single marine biologist for their thoughts? Maybe coral design, how to secure the tires for maximum life?
Is it bad I'm entirely shocked at the rainforest part? It's probably well known.. and call me dumb if you please.. but I thought the rainforest was the purest place on earth. I'm seriously pissed at texaco
You know about it now, that's what matters. It's also important to remember things like this have happened all over the world and when people are said to "hate America", it's ongoing afflictions that are generally behind it.
@@asha4736you know yes many say that they hate America But the truth is that in many instances it is some giant American corporate juggernaut that is the thing that gives you Americans a bad wrap And that is sad because there are mostly good people in your country It's just that you've taken capitalism to the absolute extreme and are paying the price for it as a country I should know I'm from Norway and we are even more capitalistic than you people are we have monetized air for godsake anything that is not bolted down by God him selves is monetize in some way If you want to do anything in this f ing country please pay at the counter 😂 And that is also why we are the richest country in the world by far all those gulf states have nothing on us they pay for 5 10 15 % of their population to live I luxury and the rest of the population is imported labor We on the other side are a country of 5.3 million people that have the same rights to that money as anyone else And that takes a lot of money to do that We have the biggest single wealth fund in the world And we just put 150 billion dollars in to it as that was the proceeds for the last 6 months And that is not then the interest and the overall year on year income on it That thing has built up a little money pit that to day is worth 1.7 trillion dollars and the fun thing is that 1.4 trillion of it has been accumulated since the banking crisis of 2008 and the waste amount of it since after 2016 So in 8 years we have a fund that has been outpacing the global stockmarked by more than 25 % year on year and as a country we own 1.7% of all stocks in the world Now that is just insane 😂😂😂😂 The fund has controlling stocks in several major banks and companies around the world But here's the kicker still ther is 100000 children living below what is set as the standard for poverty in the UNITED NATIONS charter on child poverty Now that's some fun facts for you 😂 Money doesn't solve the problem people solve the problem if they are willing to see the problems and act upon them
Depends on if the figure of $3 is inflation adjusted. During the 70's oil was less than $10 per barrel. During the 90's it was around $20 per barrel. That being said, $3 on the modern prices are fairly small, but corporate structure still encourages profits above most else (gotta get those year on year gains).
Gold King mine breach in 2015 into the Animas River in northern New Mexico. The indigenous people are still dealing with escalated contamination from the abandoned mine where the extracted waste was simply dumped backed in, plugged at the entrance, and called contained, as is the habit of mining companies.
I wish there was a good documentary on it. I looked on TH-cam, and nothing was looking good / watchable (like from typical documentary channels rather than news channels).
@@derklavierspieler7491I think crib death is more an American term. I’ve only heard Americans use crib death in the last 10 years. Australia has always called it SIDS for as long as I can remember for example
I was born in the 1950's, and the thinking then was apparently "out of sight, out of mind." The whole 'Manifest Destiny' thinking that God gave us the land so we can master everything led to some really stupid choices. We weren't given any sorts of warnings, only that "modern living through chemistry" was the way to go. Of course, there were awful consequences, and no one really knew because it wasn't being reported until much later.
Chief you do realize this is still how a lot of toxic waste is STILL disposed? The company really wasn't at fault, they didn't even want to sell the land but the government was threatening Eminent Domain (aka they were going to get it ANYWAY). The sale for $1 was clearly just the company getting it in writing that they warned them, not that it saved them much trouble down the road. Had the city not busted open the clay seal AND some of the containers with their construction, we probably would have never even heard anything about this at all. Now all that being said, I still wish we didn't have a habit of just burying toxic waste. Just it really wasn't the companies fault for following common procedures and even trying to warn the city that they were being very stupid.
@@matt3570 It seems like Hooker did their best with the circumstances they were given at the time. It's probably one of the few industrial disasters I can think of where the corporation wasn't doing shady sht to save a buck.
As long as there aren't severe! personal! consequences for the people responsible for those kinds of disasters, this will go on for ever. Its always blaming the "companies" while conveniently omitting the fact that its the very people, who often get admired by the lesser ones because of their wealth and "style", hiding behind "institutions", "companies", "enterprises" etc who make those decisions
They have like 80% of politicians in their pockets, that's why the guy who invented a hydrogen burning engine in the 80s. He mysteriously was killed 🤷♂️🫣
My ex’s grandfather was there at Phillips in Pasadena. They still live in the area now. He told me how he carried out his friends from the explosion, and how they looked. Gave me NIGHTMARES for weeks. Miss that good man very much.
honorable mention: the town near the fracking site in the documentary Gasland. nothing like being told your water is safe to drink and bathe in....but your tap water is literally flammable. shit is wild!
What is the point of forcing someone to apologize. Saying "I'm sorry" isn't the point, the point is actually *BEING* sorry. That bad feeling of guilt you get when you do something wrong, that is what being sorry is. If you say "I'm sorry." when you are not sorry is called lying.
This is why I’ll never understand people who say things like “I’m not [doing x y z] until get an apology!”The hell you want that for? It won’t actually fix anything.
@@glasperle77help? Mushrooms. Far safer than just about anything your doctors or physicians would prescribe you. Far Far FAR more effective than anti depression meds.
@@rdallas81 been on meds since 16 and made so many terrible decisions since then and i can’t help but think the meds lowered my inhibition and caused me to do that. Psychs screwed me up badly too. I took so much acid and mushrooms it fucked me up forwver
Using the military to clean up the tire reef is a great idea! Use it as a training exercise for the divers. They gain skills and experience, the area gets cleaned up. Win win!
@@Fido-vm9zi very true, but that's the case for anyone doing the cleanup. The military is in the unique position where they have the personnel with the right skills, ample budget for protective equipment that a nonprofit won't have, and won't cut corners for the sake of profit like a corporation.
It's incredibly hard to watch this. Such negligence....and where will they all run when this planet dies? They have been doing everything to kill it, but there is no Elysium. There is nowhere to escape.
I worked with a welding contractor at a chemical company in Cobb county Georgia, the company wanted us to build a large covered storage area. Since it was at the back of the property they buried waste years before. Grey ooze would come up from the ground, you could jump up and the whole ground for 20’ around you would move. So weird, there was grass, but it was floating just below your feet. We drove 20’ i beams on end and welded to those to create a grid for concrete. There’s no telling what has been buried through the years.
That Equador disaster was disgusting. How could they destroy an entire ecosystem & people. Heartwrenching. Amazon is a global treasure that the whole world should be protecting. Yep.... never have anything to do Chevron. Appalling.
What makes Love Canal even more unspeakable is the chemical company told them about it many times before the sell it was a toxic waste dump. The city still threatened imminent domain. That's right the real bad guy in that story ironically is the government. Hooker played by their rules at the time for waste dumping and fought against them developing it and finally said you want it fine give us a dollar here's this contract that very clearly states it's a toxic waste dump and not fit to be built on.
In 2015, EPA workers breached a tailings dam for a gold mine and flooded the Colorado river with many toxins, including Arsenic. The EPA was fined 12 billion dollars but refused to pay claiming sovereign immunity.
@SilverMe2004 I checked some more and found out that the Navajo nation was paid $150,000 in damages. The EPA lawyers and the Justice dept are claiming immunity barrs paying 1.2 billion in claims unless an act of congress or new Fed lawsuits order it. I couldn't find anything more recent though.
-Nice job, Dave. Give you one simple task: Don't find petroleum. My conscience wouldn't allow me to callously dump chemical waste, especially in another country but these people sure as hell didn't have a single issue with their conscience after dumping waste in Ecuador.
man the SL-1 thing makes me want to go down a rabbit hole so badly. Its dumb they claim operator error when the reactor was designed risky in the first place. Its worth understanding that the SL-1 reactor similarly to chernobyls RBMK series had a "positive reactivity coefficient" by design; meaning they would always begin to creep toward promt criticaltiy if not activley moderated by their controll rods. making the SL-1 an even more idiotic design was giving only 1 single oversized active controll rod as this ment any operation involving that controll rod was playing with 100% of the saftey margin keeping you from a runaway criticallity incident.
SL-1 was definitely a mess. Control rods don't provide moderation, though - they're poisons that absorb neutrons. Moderators slow down the "fast" neutrons that result from fission to "thermal" energies that can cause another fission (it's possible to have reactors that don't rely on moderation, but fast reactors are rare). One of the issues with Chernobyl was that their control rods were followed by graphite, a moderator. So as you removed the poison, you were also adding more moderation. In normal control rods, you use fuel after the poison so you kind of smooth things out and make the materials more uniform. It prevents power peaks and spots where things get really hot. If you're curious about prompt criticality, look up a TRIGA pulse video - you can find a ton of them because they're cool and they're the most common type of research reactor. They have an extremely special type of fuel designed to have an EXTREMELY huge negative temperature reactivity coefficient which allows them to apply compressed air and shoot a transient control rod out of the core to a preset height. Bringing a TRIGA to full power in steady state is weird, though, because as soon as the fuel gets hot, you can keep pulling the rods and barely get any power increase. (Obviously you'd get a little, and eventually a power scram would shut things down, but it feels like the reactor is fighting you)
@@EmCranberries yeah poor phrasing but most people dont understand neutron absorbers vs neutron moderators so I simplified it :/ I think they operate a reactor similar to what your describing at the college down south of me (Reed college i think it is). Honestly It still comes down to having a positive coefficient of reactivity in a power reactor and attempting to controll the thing from 1 primary point as opposed to having a primary controll rod and maybe idk a permanent static starting controll rod. I get russia not having high % U235 but the us didtn have that issue at the time so i just dont understand the SL-1's fundamental design choices. I'm also not a nuclear physicist so my opinions are kindof moot xD.
@@SushikiIIer Reed is a very baby TRIGA, yes! I don't believe they do pulsed operation. If they do, it's very small pulses. It's a very large open pool reactor, so you can just look over the edge and look down onto the core. They're great for training (the T in TRIGA stands for training, lol) and outreach, because it's hard to do anything with them that would cause damage because of the feedback. I try to spread knowledge when I can, I run into so many people who don't understand that Chernobyl isn't something that could happen with almost any reactor any more.
@@EmCranberries yup kind of odd how little accurate content regarding nuclear chemistry & nuclear physics is actually out there; leaves a lot of people with very misguided representations of nuclear energy/research. But I understand the sensational things make a bigger impact; I actually will often explain to my buddies about people being allowed to just look down into the core at reed and see the chernikov radiation and they are always skeptical xD
@@SushikiIIer You can even stand on top of one of the pulsing ones - the one I worked at had the top covered in a grate with plexiglass (it wasn't a huge pool like Reed's, it was more a long cylinder) and you could stand around and look down. Not directly on the grate, but looking over it. You might get enough dose to register on dosimetry, but still low enough that non-radworkers were allowed to do it. Certainly WAY less dose than a plane trip.
@@sirvalhart7464Why not? We have people born with extra toes and fingers. Or they're missing those digits. Or they're born without a brain. The human body can go wrong in a million ways while it's developing.
The free hand of the market will protect us 🫡 Think about it. A bunch of kids will get poisoned and when it eventually comes to light then you can use your freedoms to not buy from that company. All it cost was some land and some kids 👍
Oh no the bulk of it is still there, it's just been contained. I think they have a major cap system on it now and the liner has been repaired, and they have a setup that diverts most of the ground/rainwater. There's actual on-site equipment built there, no buildings but like pipes and a few concrete shacks. The surrounding soil was probably dug up and vitrified before being backfilled in.
Love didn't just run out of money. The development of alternating current meant people didn't need to have their factories right next to the place their electricity is generated. Reading the newspapers from the time is like reading a mystery novel, including the point where the bastard just disappeared, according to some, he ran to Europe. Either way, his canal and the Model City he'd meant to build were abandoned.
Years ago I took a road trip that took me through Idaho where I learned about the SL-1 disaster and later read a great book about it. Horrific but fascinating dark chapter in America's nuclear history that most people don't know about. Nice job detailing all the disasters.
Back in 83 I bought a property in Villaricos, a fishing village next to Palamores. The accident was mentioned by the builders, but no one cared. What is interesting is the Dreambeach Festival has this year moved to Almería from its Palamores location of the last few years. Coincidentally, a couple of years back there was another promise made by the USA government to clear up the remaining nuclear waste.....
There is a newer documentary on PBS about Love Canal and it has a bunch of the people who previously lived there in it speaking their stories. It’s very interesting!!!! Totally recommend!!!!! I swear every time I watch something about it, I learn something new. Like your video taught me something new!!!!! Thanks for the video❤❤❤❤❤❤
It's what nightmares are made of. heh As disheartening as this seems, in the greater scheme of things, it's just a blip on on the Universal time scale like it never even happened. Everything is relative my dear Watson. ;D
It’s interesting how Americans downplay their greatest accomplishments while also lionizing their mistakes… Superfund is not a “tiny silver lining”, but one of the most groundbreaking and important pieces of environmental legislation in history! My nation’s cleanup laws and programs are based in it, as are those of many other countries. The victims and activists of Love Canal are heroes of humanity! Their hard work and sacrifice have saved ecosystems, communities, and innumerable lives worldwide. I am forever grateful.
I'm surprised that the EPA caused Gold King mine disaster wasn't brought up. At the time it happened I was staying in Pagosa Springs just a few minutes away and often visited Durango. There was allot of Excitement in Durango because a company was wanting to buy the mine specifically for the millions of gallons of slurry that had built up inside. The company specialized in harvesting toxic slurry from abandoned mines and turning it into usable products at a profit and Gold King mine was the perfect target for them out would have netted them millions and made the area very wealthy. But Obamas EPA stepped in to investigate the site putting a hold on the sale, the instant they did that a local geologist came out saying that the EPA had plans to break open the mine and allowing the contents to mostly drain into the river then either blame the company trying to buy it or claim it was an accident. He described a week in advance exactly what they were going to do and how they were going to do it. The disaster not only polluted the river running through the area but also the connecting Colorado River. The pollution spread through at least four states before being contained by one of the many dams built to contain and harness the Colorado River. It also meant that the company that was after the slurry itself no longer had a reason to buy the mine. Everyone suffered except for the EPA who got billions in tax player money to clean up their mess and Obama who got a talking point to push new legislation he wouldn't have been able to pass at any other point in time even though he'd been trying to push it for years. Had the EPA never gotten involved Gold King mine would have been safely drained, local processing plants would have been constructed bringing in hundreds of jobs, and the economy wouldn't be as bad as it is now, instead all that wealth and potential is poisoning the people who live along the river to this day in more ways than one rather than being safely processed into highly usable products.
Mistakes happen. The contractors hired by the EPA didn't know the mine had pressurized. Now, they take precautions to make sure it doesn't happen again. Did they do everything right? No. Not even close. Do we need them? Yes. If we allow certain agencies to work as they should, we end up with better results. Instead of hyperfocusing on rare instances, we need to look at overall numbers. We also need to help these agencies improve themselves and work for overall improvement of everything. Nothing can work as it should in the US because of this "all or nothing" attitude so many people have adopted. It's ridiculous, and it makes this already very divided country not work nearly as efficiently, so everyone gets even more worked up and angry.
Doing a pretty good job covering these. Cover this next "Human Rights Watch - “We’re Dying Here” The Fight for Life in a Louisiana Fossil Fuel Sacrifice Zone"" aka about Cancer Alley
Thank you for putting out quality content and NOT showing your face. The narrator must remain mysterious or I can't watch a documentary I guess I'm weird.
A good journalist is a conveying a story giving attention to the subject not seeking personal attention and fame. The quality of their work is what matters bringing the story to the attention of the public - making it up to the public to decide for themselves. Bad journalism is populistic and driven by sensation or a personal agenda not related to the subject.
I’m glad more and more people are waking up to the fact that the Love Canal disaster was primarily caused by the city government and developers ignoring literally every warning raised by Hooker.
3:23 back in those days surgeons didn’t even use gloves when they executed their procedures. What makes you assume back they adequately knew anything about environmental safety?
Companies in the Niagara area were tasked with working with the radioactive materials for the Manhattan Project. Due to the secrecy the workers were not told of the dangers. The waste materials were buried in the northern area of Niagara county. My high school was directly next to the first nuclear dump in the US. Some of my classmate developed health problems.
I lived in the area of SL-1. Being a metallurgist, I had my own Geiger Counter at home. It proved the people were lied to about radiation levels in the community. Especially in the first few weeks. They were usually 2-15X what was shared to the masses via news media
Shame on Texaco and Chevron. Shame on all oil and mining Companies that leave these toxic areas. God have mercy on those people that have too live in those areas.
Wait the families that suffered got a lousy 20 million to split between the whole town with a million dollar medical liability. While the city sued the same company for 129 million in fees. I think the families should have gotten double what the city did get at least I think a million per person in the city would ve adequate
When that map of all the EPA super fund sites popped up during the love canal segment i thought no way it can't really be that bad. Then i went and looked it up for myself, It's way worse. I nearly fainted when i realized just how bad it is.
It's so wild that Texaco gets off with completely and utterly having no accountability for destroying these ppls' lives for generations to come, like damn. How can corporations be allowed to do shitt like this?
I remember the Time cover of the Bopal disaster. The picture of the deceased child’s face when they were uncovering the grave still resonates with me today.
There is a mental health STATE hospital near me and I always thought it's weird that on that property I have NEVER EVER STILL TO THIS DAY haven't seen any birds or animals on it. Makes ya think. .what is wrong with that land.
The PBS TH-cam channel has a great documentary abt Love Canal. It goes into how the authorities dismissed the resident's concerns mostly because it was housewives who brought it to their attention. It also touches on some of the racial issues because a housing project was also impacted, but didn't receive as much attention/assistance.
This was a great video. Thanks you for all the time spent. On the Amazon video I was like please don’t be us please don’t be us and then you said Texaco and I felt so sick to my stomach by the end. Man we suck sometimes. Actually a lot more than I like to acknowledge. On the SL1 video I have a question: you said SL1 was the first meltdown. Are you not considering the Simi Valley SSFL meltdown in 1959 because it was a considered a partial meltdown? Sorry if I misunderstood you.
i had a job driving a dump truck to deliver clay. the school still stood. in the access streets parallel to the canal there were multiple blind, deaf child signs close to each other. to this day it still makes me cry thinking about it.
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I think the most shocking thing about the Love Canal disaster is that the big corporation actually didn't do anything wrong. They gave a full disclosure that the land they were selling was a toxic waste dump, and the school ignored it. Whenever an industrial disaster occurs, it's usually because of a negligent, greedy corporation.
I mean I'd argue just burying a bunch of hazardous waste hardly a few yards underground is "wrong" whether it was legal or not...Not even making sure the containers would hold. Even if no human had ever gone there it still would have harmed the environment and any animals that might have moved in.
@@StonedHunterI mean at the time it it was deemed enough if they did it now it would be an uproar
I'm not really surprised. Public schools are government owned so blaming the corporation takes the burden and liability off the government. They knew the land was toxic but still built a school and housing. One thing I have learned watching Dark Records is the government will pin it on anyone to avoid accountability.
@@StonedHunter knock it off
@@StonedHunteractually kinda wrong, the waste hooker buried was contained the same way that very waste is today. When they built neighborhoods and schools on top of it despite hooker telling the city not to, they broke the seal with sewer and water and gas piping. In all honesty, hooker didn’t do that much wrong. Greed and mismanagement of the corrupt city of Niagara Falls was truly to blame.
if i was corrupt, id want my trial to be held in the US too. if youre the devil in the US, you will be pardoned.
Ohhhhhhhh the devil is among us!!! Rebuke Satan now ! 😇
Make sure to file in Texas at a federal court. It prevents state level anti-SLAPP laws from kicking in and will be turned over the to most corporate friendly judicial circuit in the nation if you do happen to lose and want to appeal. 🤮
Our justice system is run by the corrupt
Come commit your crime in NYC. You’ll not only be pardoned, but be rewarded with free counseling, no bail, no jail.
That’s because our justice system is for profit and corrupt af. That’s not normal people.
Chevron is the epitome of corporate evil. Actual cartoon villains.
Read up on Nestlé; that's not cartoon villainy, it's horror movie villainy.
Try Hardy Brothers Australia.... A company that knowingly used Asbestos in gyprock, regardless of the many thousands of people who died from Mesotheilioma and Asbestos. Like my Mum.... The CEO's are truly Evil 😈
I was literally about to mention Nestlé as well when I saw this comment! 😂
@@Siathuan Mustn't forget neither of them could do it without support from the good old US of A. If you threaten US business interests, you can and will find a carrier air group parked outside your capital.
@@Siathuan You should also look up Dole and Chiquita as well.
The Texaco/Chevron one made me so angry. At the end of the day, it became so corrupt at the legal system, there was no hope. It’s not like Chevron can’t afford to clean up their mess that will now continue to affect multiple generations of indigenous peoples lives. And, of course, that very fact plays in at a major roll too, that it mostly affects indigenous people. So sad. I’m fuming.
I don't think there's a sumable cost that would clean up the rainforest in Ecuador; but the herculean task. I honestly don't think all the money in the world would clean up a toxic oil spill the size of Rhode Island. Love Canal, maybe. But the Amazon rainforest seems impossible 😕
The Chevron one pisses meboff so much. The fact that they got away with literal murder is absolutely absurd. The fact that Equador had to pay the criminals is heartbreaking. I will be trying to do more research into what gas/fuel/petroleum companies are affiliated with Texaco and Chevron. If at all possible, I will try to prevent myself from giving them any money. Dk if at all possible, but will definitely be doing research and attempting to do so. I know it isn't much, and in reality, doesn't actually effect them at all, but at least they won't get my money.
AND the fact that the lawyer, who deserves a global award, is instead (last i heard) living under eternal house arrest in NY, they wanna lock him up and throw away the key. Yeah, the whole case is a f*n DISGRACE😢
Yes, i also became vèry angry!!
Who cares about indians
"Oh there's OIL in that pristine area?! GIMMIE." - every oil company ever.
Well.....yeah that's there job? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 that's like saying cobalt miners be like "oh theres cobalt in this village"? "Guess theres no more village" like wow 😮 the village probably cost 10,000$usd to move realistically less than a days profits 😂😂😂
@@casperthelegend1458 Yea, no.
Their job isn't to rip up pristine rainforest and leave it so polluted there was literally not a single clean spot to test in 2 million acres. But nice try.
"tHeiR JoB" hahahahaha
@@FloralAndFire yeah well that wasn't your comment my dude 🤣 & if the rain Foret isn't protected by any laws or anything well yeah that is kinda there job my dude, kinda funny how it only widley happens in 3rd world shyt holes where the government officials can be paid off but I'm sure the countries these happen in are completely blameless aswell 😶
Gotta love people.
Was a people person. People ruined that for me.
@@casperthelegend1458 Interestingly the courts in the "3rd world shyt hole" ruled it illegal, but the supposed first world country USA said it was fine. Because of course they did, it was a US company and the pollution didn't happen in the USA.
I'm a simple man. When I instantly recognize the thumbnail as the 99th street school at Love Canal during the later stages of remediation, I click the link and watch the video.
🥰
Almost cared, damn
@@goshdarnitmanlol that read more button was a risky click
laughed out loud to this thank you
WTF does that even mean? Sounds illiterate.
Note, the Hooker Chemical Company only sold the Love Canal site under threat by the school district of seizing it via eminent domain.
They sold it to them for a dollar, if I remember correctly.
Reading about Love Canal as a kid made me permanently suspicious of real estate transactions between public entities and corporations.
They jizzed into the Love Canal. lmao
💀
When someone offers you land for $1.00, beware! It’s not out of charity.
@@mariekatherine5238 they were told all that stuff was was there and not to build on it
The SL-1 nuclear power plant one must have been horrifying to walk into for the firefighters and other personnel. Limp bodies covered in blood, a guy not quite dead yet moaning out in pain but unable to say anything, radioactive air, a dead guy impaled in the ceiling probably dripping blood down, etc. nightmare fuel.
I’d heard that story before a while back. The detail regarding the guy pinned to the ceiling really stayed with me.
I have ADHD. I don’t really retain most things memory-wise. I have never forgotten that. 😬
And they claim that the glass fiber in windmills is dangerous 😂
the guy pinned to the ceiling was sleeping with one of the other guys wife, the other guy was theorised to be the one who pulled the rod as a redrum/edicius incident
Never use Chevron brands. Noted.
Exactly my thoughts. I'm surprised there's not already a call to boycott their shitty company
Good luck with that. Pretty sure they own a lot of products that you're probably unaware of.
Unfortunately it applies to like 99% of oil and fuel companies. I used to work in contaminated land/environmental consulting specifically for fuel companies. It's astounding how little accountability they want to take - until they're threatened with fines or negative publicity.
One of our clients sat on an issue for almost 20 years before an attorney moved into the area and inherited their contamination. When she threatened to go to news outlets and take em to court, they suddenly started remediation in no time. Better than settling over a million per household, I suppose.
@@fungicide9244 Ppl do not care enough to check. Plus oil is basicly the basis of the entire economy. And thus ppl alow the devil to run it. Cause whitout it there is no economie.
@@fungicide9244 because the media machine are paid by them
The way I understand it, Hooker Chemical fought against selling that property, the city threatened Eminent Domain.
That's what I've read.
@@grmpEqweer I've read ur hard for me daddy
I took a college class on environmental disasters and one of the professors wrote a book on Love Canal and even he stresses just how badly Hooker Chemical tried to not have them build there. It eventually got to the point where they were like "We are telling you it's a very bad idea to build here. Don't put anyone here." Then they put an elementary school in that spot. They absolutely shouldn't have dumped the chemicals in the first place but for the city to just ignore all the warnings they gave is a failing in its own right.
@06ToyotaCorolla IDK how familiar you are with the city of NF New York, but if you are this makes total sense, they are comple morons.
as they sold it for $1 Eminent Domain doesn't seem like a real concern.
The bigger question is did the school board know that it was contaminated ground?
if no than Hooker Chemical is at fault for not disclosing that properly
if Yes then the school board should be the ones held responsible. Not only did they build on land against the T&C of the sale. they then on sold contaminated land for others to build on.
Oil companies finding ways to get out of fines, lawsuits and cleaning up there messes is nothing new honestly, they do it even till this day
*their
@@pstolpete187seriously 🤦🏼♀️
story made me ill
what we learn from this?
Exactly, nothing. Because we are humans. We dont learn from mistakes. We feel comfortable to repeat them.
@@dom3827I disagree. People learn just fine, and the case of Chevron isn't a matter of learning from mistakes - there were no mistakes to learn from. Chevron destroying a large swathe of the Amazon was a calculated move made by callous rich assholes that didn't care and who continue not to care because they have the money to bribe politicians and judges. We need to start demanding that these people be held to account and sent to prison for long periods of their lives after having their assets seized and redistributed.
The Osbourne Tire Reef incident is a very interesting case. Everybody thought that dumping a whole bunch of tires into the ocean to form an artificial coral reef would restore the ocean and make it a thriving wildlife paradise. Instead, it did the exact opposite and caused a humongous environmental disaster that killed thousands of marine organisms. Basically, if you want to dump something in the water, make sure it's environmentally friendly first.
Ignoring that the tiers turned out to be toxic, the original problem was too may of the tires were not secured properly. if the tiers were secured in large enough clumps that the wavers didn't move them, then it would have worked. well until they found out they were toxic
It's simple to understand that the tires were made of unnatural toxic material. People are so stupid. They killed trillions of marine life and it affected mankind in a negative impact in so many ways. Had I been aware in 1970 this was on the agenda even with a basic education of biology I would have known.
This incident confuses me so much. Did none of them ask a single marine biologist for their thoughts? Maybe coral design, how to secure the tires for maximum life?
* DUH !
@@kentario1610 honestly I think it was a marine biologist's idea. What they needed was to consult a structural engineer
Is it bad I'm entirely shocked at the rainforest part? It's probably well known.. and call me dumb if you please.. but I thought the rainforest was the purest place on earth. I'm seriously pissed at texaco
No, shock is what you should feel when learning about something like that.
There’s nothing wrong with filling in the gaps in your knowledge.
You know about it now, that's what matters. It's also important to remember things like this have happened all over the world and when people are said to "hate America", it's ongoing afflictions that are generally behind it.
Welcome to capitalism
I am shooketh I had NEVER heard of it and I haven’t been so impotently furious in my life. Geez, that’s just so disgusting evil.
@@asha4736you know yes many say that they hate America
But the truth is that in many instances it is some giant American corporate juggernaut that is the thing that gives you Americans a bad wrap
And that is sad because there are mostly good people in your country
It's just that you've taken capitalism to the absolute extreme and are paying the price for it as a country
I should know I'm from Norway and we are even more capitalistic than you people are we have monetized air for godsake anything that is not bolted down by God him selves is monetize in some way
If you want to do anything in this f ing country please pay at the counter 😂
And that is also why we are the richest country in the world by far all those gulf states have nothing on us they pay for 5 10 15 % of their population to live I luxury and the rest of the population is imported labor
We on the other side are a country of 5.3 million people that have the same rights to that money as anyone else
And that takes a lot of money to do that
We have the biggest single wealth fund in the world And we just put 150 billion dollars in to it as that was the proceeds for the last 6 months
And that is not then the interest and the overall year on year income on it
That thing has built up a little money pit that to day is worth 1.7 trillion dollars and the fun thing is that 1.4 trillion of it has been accumulated since the banking crisis of 2008 and the waste amount of it since after 2016
So in 8 years we have a fund that has been outpacing the global stockmarked by more than 25 % year on year and as a country we own 1.7% of all stocks in the world
Now that is just insane 😂😂😂😂
The fund has controlling stocks in several major banks and companies around the world
But here's the kicker still ther is 100000 children living below what is set as the standard for poverty in the UNITED NATIONS charter on child poverty
Now that's some fun facts for you 😂
Money doesn't solve the problem people solve the problem if they are willing to see the problems and act upon them
I'm sorry, just over only THREE DOLLARS A BARREL??? For destroying so many lives??? Only three dollars???? What the actual fu-
Welcome to capitalism
Depends on if the figure of $3 is inflation adjusted. During the 70's oil was less than $10 per barrel. During the 90's it was around $20 per barrel. That being said, $3 on the modern prices are fairly small, but corporate structure still encourages profits above most else (gotta get those year on year gains).
I would seek revenge.
@@Pekara121no that's crony capitalism which is corrupt
MONEY. 😢
Gold King mine breach in 2015 into the Animas River in northern New Mexico. The indigenous people are still dealing with escalated contamination from the abandoned mine where the extracted waste was simply dumped backed in, plugged at the entrance, and called contained, as is the habit of mining companies.
I did a report on this disaster in college for an environmental safety class in my OSHA education. It's the worst unknown disaster in the Western US.
I wish there was a good documentary on it. I looked on TH-cam, and nothing was looking good / watchable (like from typical documentary channels rather than news channels).
I remember that happening. Horrible.
0:16 5 GOOOLDEENNN RIIIINGGGS
Just… wow lol
Note for American viewers - when he says "crib death", that's what we call SIDS - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
@@derklavierspieler7491I think crib death is more an American term. I’ve only heard Americans use crib death in the last 10 years. Australia has always called it SIDS for as long as I can remember for example
@@peaBaustralia86I've never ever heard crib death in America only SIDS
We called it Crib Death for at least a hundred years before the term SIDS was foisted on us as the politically correct term.
@@derklavierspieler7491Speak for yourself.
Sids is a clever name for the parents did it
How can anyone look at a company like chevron and think we don't need oversight for these greedy corporations
They bought and own our government.
It always baffles me how some companies could just bury the chemicals and be like”what barrels” when questioned about the dumping of toxic chemicals.
I was born in the 1950's, and the thinking then was apparently "out of sight, out of mind." The whole 'Manifest Destiny' thinking that God gave us the land so we can master everything led to some really stupid choices. We weren't given any sorts of warnings, only that "modern living through chemistry" was the way to go. Of course, there were awful consequences, and no one really knew because it wasn't being reported until much later.
Chief you do realize this is still how a lot of toxic waste is STILL disposed? The company really wasn't at fault, they didn't even want to sell the land but the government was threatening Eminent Domain (aka they were going to get it ANYWAY). The sale for $1 was clearly just the company getting it in writing that they warned them, not that it saved them much trouble down the road. Had the city not busted open the clay seal AND some of the containers with their construction, we probably would have never even heard anything about this at all.
Now all that being said, I still wish we didn't have a habit of just burying toxic waste. Just it really wasn't the companies fault for following common procedures and even trying to warn the city that they were being very stupid.
@@matt3570 It seems like Hooker did their best with the circumstances they were given at the time. It's probably one of the few industrial disasters I can think of where the corporation wasn't doing shady sht to save a buck.
As long as there aren't severe! personal! consequences for the people responsible for those kinds of disasters, this will go on for ever.
Its always blaming the "companies" while conveniently omitting the fact that its the very people, who often get admired by the lesser ones because of their wealth and "style", hiding behind "institutions", "companies", "enterprises" etc who make those decisions
chevron shouldn't be allowed to exist yet the courts in this country are letting them do whatever they want
If you have money than the government will follow, welcome to the capitalistic world
They have like 80% of politicians in their pockets, that's why the guy who invented a hydrogen burning engine in the 80s. He mysteriously was killed 🤷♂️🫣
My ex’s grandfather was there at Phillips in Pasadena. They still live in the area now. He told me how he carried out his friends from the explosion, and how they looked. Gave me NIGHTMARES for weeks. Miss that good man very much.
My great grandfather was the fire chief that handled the SL-1 disaster. It apparently was very horrific.
Thanks for sharing!
Cheveron paid those Judges.
What a shame.
Chevron should be made to clean up the mess!
Money talks
honorable mention: the town near the fracking site in the documentary Gasland. nothing like being told your water is safe to drink and bathe in....but your tap water is literally flammable. shit is wild!
What is the point of forcing someone to apologize. Saying "I'm sorry" isn't the point, the point is actually *BEING* sorry. That bad feeling of guilt you get when you do something wrong, that is what being sorry is. If you say "I'm sorry." when you are not sorry is called lying.
YES exactly! So we'll said.
This is why I’ll never understand people who say things like “I’m not [doing x y z] until get an apology!”The hell you want that for? It won’t actually fix anything.
5:31 “the visuals were bad enough. But, it was about to get worse.” Me after taking a heroic dose of mushrooms
please get help
@@glasperle77 I am. It’s not working
Shooms.
Better than anti depressants.
@@glasperle77help?
Mushrooms. Far safer than just about anything your doctors or physicians would prescribe you.
Far Far FAR more effective than anti depression meds.
@@rdallas81 been on meds since 16 and made so many terrible decisions since then and i can’t help but think the meds lowered my inhibition and caused me to do that. Psychs screwed me up badly too. I took so much acid and mushrooms it fucked me up forwver
As a father, thinking about those poisoned children absolutely breaks my heart.
As someone poisoned as a kid by polluted water, plz be mad. By bones today are shattering cause of those chemicals.... shattering.
And some people believe that the extremely rich deserve every dollar 😮
Greed is a sin for very good reason.
Using the military to clean up the tire reef is a great idea! Use it as a training exercise for the divers. They gain skills and experience, the area gets cleaned up. Win win!
Yes, but all the personnel working with toxic chemicals. Not good either.
@@Fido-vm9zi very true, but that's the case for anyone doing the cleanup. The military is in the unique position where they have the personnel with the right skills, ample budget for protective equipment that a nonprofit won't have, and won't cut corners for the sake of profit like a corporation.
I lived in Niagara Falls. I was amazed by how many chemical companies there are in that city. You can figure out where you are in the city by smell.
It's incredibly hard to watch this. Such negligence....and where will they all run when this planet dies? They have been doing everything to kill it, but there is no Elysium. There is nowhere to escape.
I worked with a welding contractor at a chemical company in Cobb county Georgia, the company wanted us to build a large covered storage area. Since it was at the back of the property they buried waste years before. Grey ooze would come up from the ground, you could jump up and the whole ground for 20’ around you would move. So weird, there was grass, but it was floating just below your feet. We drove 20’ i beams on end and welded to those to create a grid for concrete. There’s no telling what has been buried through the years.
That Equador disaster was disgusting. How could they destroy an entire ecosystem & people. Heartwrenching. Amazon is a global treasure that the whole world should be protecting.
Yep.... never have anything to do Chevron. Appalling.
"hookers contaminated love canal" heh
Lol😂
The Love Canal is unspeakable, but the Equador poisening and the tire reef are absolutely disheartning
@@Die-Angst thank you.
What makes Love Canal even more unspeakable is the chemical company told them about it many times before the sell it was a toxic waste dump. The city still threatened imminent domain. That's right the real bad guy in that story ironically is the government. Hooker played by their rules at the time for waste dumping and fought against them developing it and finally said you want it fine give us a dollar here's this contract that very clearly states it's a toxic waste dump and not fit to be built on.
Holy negligence batman.
In 2015, EPA workers breached a tailings dam for a gold mine and flooded the Colorado river with many toxins, including Arsenic. The EPA was fined 12 billion dollars but refused to pay claiming sovereign immunity.
Who fined the EPA?
@SilverMe2004 I checked some more and found out that the Navajo nation was paid $150,000 in damages. The EPA lawyers and the Justice dept are claiming immunity barrs paying 1.2 billion in claims unless an act of congress or new Fed lawsuits order it. I couldn't find anything more recent though.
-Nice job, Dave. Give you one simple task: Don't find petroleum.
My conscience wouldn't allow me to callously dump chemical waste, especially in another country but these people sure as hell didn't have a single issue with their conscience after dumping waste in Ecuador.
When I was learning about Ecuador I had a feeling that place suffered exploitation of some sort.
But but but it was Ecuadorian waste /s
man the SL-1 thing makes me want to go down a rabbit hole so badly. Its dumb they claim operator error when the reactor was designed risky in the first place. Its worth understanding that the SL-1 reactor similarly to chernobyls RBMK series had a "positive reactivity coefficient" by design; meaning they would always begin to creep toward promt criticaltiy if not activley moderated by their controll rods. making the SL-1 an even more idiotic design was giving only 1 single oversized active controll rod as this ment any operation involving that controll rod was playing with 100% of the saftey margin keeping you from a runaway criticallity incident.
SL-1 was definitely a mess. Control rods don't provide moderation, though - they're poisons that absorb neutrons. Moderators slow down the "fast" neutrons that result from fission to "thermal" energies that can cause another fission (it's possible to have reactors that don't rely on moderation, but fast reactors are rare). One of the issues with Chernobyl was that their control rods were followed by graphite, a moderator. So as you removed the poison, you were also adding more moderation. In normal control rods, you use fuel after the poison so you kind of smooth things out and make the materials more uniform. It prevents power peaks and spots where things get really hot.
If you're curious about prompt criticality, look up a TRIGA pulse video - you can find a ton of them because they're cool and they're the most common type of research reactor. They have an extremely special type of fuel designed to have an EXTREMELY huge negative temperature reactivity coefficient which allows them to apply compressed air and shoot a transient control rod out of the core to a preset height. Bringing a TRIGA to full power in steady state is weird, though, because as soon as the fuel gets hot, you can keep pulling the rods and barely get any power increase. (Obviously you'd get a little, and eventually a power scram would shut things down, but it feels like the reactor is fighting you)
@@EmCranberries yeah poor phrasing but most people dont understand neutron absorbers vs neutron moderators so I simplified it :/ I think they operate a reactor similar to what your describing at the college down south of me (Reed college i think it is).
Honestly It still comes down to having a positive coefficient of reactivity in a power reactor and attempting to controll the thing from 1 primary point as opposed to having a primary controll rod and maybe idk a permanent static starting controll rod. I get russia not having high % U235 but the us didtn have that issue at the time so i just dont understand the SL-1's fundamental design choices. I'm also not a nuclear physicist so my opinions are kindof moot xD.
@@SushikiIIer Reed is a very baby TRIGA, yes! I don't believe they do pulsed operation. If they do, it's very small pulses. It's a very large open pool reactor, so you can just look over the edge and look down onto the core. They're great for training (the T in TRIGA stands for training, lol) and outreach, because it's hard to do anything with them that would cause damage because of the feedback.
I try to spread knowledge when I can, I run into so many people who don't understand that Chernobyl isn't something that could happen with almost any reactor any more.
@@EmCranberries yup kind of odd how little accurate content regarding nuclear chemistry & nuclear physics is actually out there; leaves a lot of people with very misguided representations of nuclear energy/research. But I understand the sensational things make a bigger impact; I actually will often explain to my buddies about people being allowed to just look down into the core at reed and see the chernikov radiation and they are always skeptical xD
@@SushikiIIer You can even stand on top of one of the pulsing ones - the one I worked at had the top covered in a grate with plexiglass (it wasn't a huge pool like Reed's, it was more a long cylinder) and you could stand around and look down. Not directly on the grate, but looking over it. You might get enough dose to register on dosimetry, but still low enough that non-radworkers were allowed to do it. Certainly WAY less dose than a plane trip.
5:30 ...those chemicals did a real number on her face
Lol yeah man no mouth or anything 😂
8:50 Wait, what........three rows of teeth??!
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who paused and looked this up like... no way??
That was my key takeaway from the video. I was supposed to search on it after I completed the video but I am still not done.
Hyperdontia is the medical Term.
Oddity or severe Condition,
It's sadly never a 3 Functional Set of Teeth or Spares.😅
@@sirvalhart7464Why not? We have people born with extra toes and fingers. Or they're missing those digits. Or they're born without a brain. The human body can go wrong in a million ways while it's developing.
Yea u heard it ..3 rows of teeth..damn u know how much a grill would cost to get 3 rows of teeth fill wit gold..lol 🤣
And our supreme court continues to limit the EPA, keep voting against your best interest..
The free hand of the market will protect us 🫡 Think about it. A bunch of kids will get poisoned and when it eventually comes to light then you can use your freedoms to not buy from that company. All it cost was some land and some kids 👍
The court and EPA is still the government. Of course, they are going to cover themselves.
@batkat0 some people are so delusional that I honestly cannot tell if this is sarcasm.
I wonder how much contamination is left in the ground in Love Canal. There *has* to be at least some!
Oh no the bulk of it is still there, it's just been contained. I think they have a major cap system on it now and the liner has been repaired, and they have a setup that diverts most of the ground/rainwater. There's actual on-site equipment built there, no buildings but like pipes and a few concrete shacks. The surrounding soil was probably dug up and vitrified before being backfilled in.
12:12 as @LGTheOneFreeMan said
Love didn't just run out of money. The development of alternating current meant people didn't need to have their factories right next to the place their electricity is generated. Reading the newspapers from the time is like reading a mystery novel, including the point where the bastard just disappeared, according to some, he ran to Europe. Either way, his canal and the Model City he'd meant to build were abandoned.
Acreage for a dollar and a disclaimer. Hey, what could possibly go wrong?
well by the sounds of it the school board thought they had force Hooker to sell for a dollar. And just maybe they thought the disclaimer was a bluff
Years ago I took a road trip that took me through Idaho where I learned about the SL-1 disaster and later read a great book about it. Horrific but fascinating dark chapter in America's nuclear history that most people don't know about. Nice job detailing all the disasters.
Back in 83 I bought a property in Villaricos, a fishing village next to Palamores. The accident was mentioned by the builders, but no one cared. What is interesting is the Dreambeach Festival has this year moved to Almería from its Palamores location of the last few years. Coincidentally, a couple of years back there was another promise made by the USA government to clear up the remaining nuclear waste.....
There is a newer documentary on PBS
about Love Canal and it has a bunch of the people who previously lived there in it speaking their stories. It’s very interesting!!!! Totally recommend!!!!! I swear every time I watch something about it, I learn something new. Like your video taught me something new!!!!! Thanks for the video❤❤❤❤❤❤
Watching this b4 bedtime 😮
Hope y'all don't have nightmares.
Sweet dreams bro
It's what nightmares are made of. heh As disheartening as this seems, in the greater scheme of things, it's just a blip on on the Universal time scale like it never even happened. Everything is relative my dear Watson. ;D
watching this after bedtime
It’s interesting how Americans downplay their greatest accomplishments while also lionizing their mistakes…
Superfund is not a “tiny silver lining”, but one of the most groundbreaking and important pieces of environmental legislation in history! My nation’s cleanup laws and programs are based in it, as are those of many other countries. The victims and activists of Love Canal are heroes of humanity! Their hard work and sacrifice have saved ecosystems, communities, and innumerable lives worldwide. I am forever grateful.
SL-1 was not the first nuclear disaster to affect US soil. That honor falls to the 1959 disaster at the Santa Susana Field Lab.
I work for a company called Clean Harbors, they cleaned up all of these.
If I may ask, who is the person doing the VOs? I've been really hooked on these videos for a while now.
I'm surprised that the EPA caused Gold King mine disaster wasn't brought up. At the time it happened I was staying in Pagosa Springs just a few minutes away and often visited Durango. There was allot of Excitement in Durango because a company was wanting to buy the mine specifically for the millions of gallons of slurry that had built up inside. The company specialized in harvesting toxic slurry from abandoned mines and turning it into usable products at a profit and Gold King mine was the perfect target for them out would have netted them millions and made the area very wealthy. But Obamas EPA stepped in to investigate the site putting a hold on the sale, the instant they did that a local geologist came out saying that the EPA had plans to break open the mine and allowing the contents to mostly drain into the river then either blame the company trying to buy it or claim it was an accident. He described a week in advance exactly what they were going to do and how they were going to do it. The disaster not only polluted the river running through the area but also the connecting Colorado River. The pollution spread through at least four states before being contained by one of the many dams built to contain and harness the Colorado River. It also meant that the company that was after the slurry itself no longer had a reason to buy the mine. Everyone suffered except for the EPA who got billions in tax player money to clean up their mess and Obama who got a talking point to push new legislation he wouldn't have been able to pass at any other point in time even though he'd been trying to push it for years.
Had the EPA never gotten involved Gold King mine would have been safely drained, local processing plants would have been constructed bringing in hundreds of jobs, and the economy wouldn't be as bad as it is now, instead all that wealth and potential is poisoning the people who live along the river to this day in more ways than one rather than being safely processed into highly usable products.
Mistakes happen. The contractors hired by the EPA didn't know the mine had pressurized. Now, they take precautions to make sure it doesn't happen again. Did they do everything right? No. Not even close. Do we need them? Yes. If we allow certain agencies to work as they should, we end up with better results. Instead of hyperfocusing on rare instances, we need to look at overall numbers. We also need to help these agencies improve themselves and work for overall improvement of everything. Nothing can work as it should in the US because of this "all or nothing" attitude so many people have adopted. It's ridiculous, and it makes this already very divided country not work nearly as efficiently, so everyone gets even more worked up and angry.
Typical.
Doing a pretty good job covering these. Cover this next "Human Rights Watch - “We’re Dying Here” The Fight for Life in a Louisiana Fossil Fuel Sacrifice Zone"" aka about Cancer Alley
i knew most of these stories. Now i know more about all of them. Well done and thank You !:-)
Thank you for putting out quality content and NOT showing your face. The narrator must remain mysterious or I can't watch a documentary I guess I'm weird.
A good journalist is a conveying a story giving attention to the subject not seeking personal attention and fame. The quality of their work is what matters bringing the story to the attention of the public - making it up to the public to decide for themselves. Bad journalism is populistic and driven by sensation or a personal agenda not related to the subject.
The company said sorry, it was an oxident.
😂😂😂😂❤
the company's name is hooker
I’m glad more and more people are waking up to the fact that the Love Canal disaster was primarily caused by the city government and developers ignoring literally every warning raised by Hooker.
LONG FORM VIDEOS ARE THE BEST
10:42 Jay Leno cameo
3:23 back in those days surgeons didn’t even use gloves when they executed their procedures. What makes you assume back they adequately knew anything about environmental safety?
back they?
@@RamminRanch back then.
If your reading comprehension is on par, a small typo like this shouldn’t slip you up.
Yeah, they didnt know. But we still try apply todays knowledge to historical events 🤦🏼♀️
Half of niagara county is radioactive
Companies in the Niagara area were tasked with working with the radioactive materials for the Manhattan Project. Due to the secrecy the workers were not told of the dangers. The waste materials were buried in the northern area of Niagara county. My high school was directly next to the first nuclear dump in the US. Some of my classmate developed health problems.
I really enjoyed this video was very interesting and you just got my follow hoss 👍🏻
Things like this are why I don't always trust my government..and why I rarely trust big corporations.
One of the worst parts about handling old busted or decayed tires is that without thick gloves, the exposed steel belts can stab into your hands.
Humanity never learns.this kind of stuff will never stop.i feel bad for the animals they are innocent
Outstanding video. Normally i don't watch videos this long but this was informative and well edited 👍
Sense chevron wont do shit is there a way to help the people clean up the mess? Like cheraties or organizations to help with the clean up?
I lived in the area of SL-1. Being a metallurgist, I had my own Geiger Counter at home. It proved the people were lied to about radiation levels in the community. Especially in the first few weeks. They were usually 2-15X what was shared to the masses via news media
Do a video on building boilers disasters.
Watch a video on learning simple manners, starting with how to say things like “please” and “thank you”
Thank you so much for these long videos ❤
I feel so bad for the children living next to toxic waste
"MAN" The most dangerous creature on Earth.
Cringe
Shame on Texaco and Chevron. Shame on all oil and mining Companies that leave these toxic areas. God have mercy on those people that have too live in those areas.
Thank you TH-cam recommendations, while I’m working these long form videos are very pleasant to listen to.
Wait the families that suffered got a lousy 20 million to split between the whole town with a million dollar medical liability. While the city sued the same company for 129 million in fees. I think the families should have gotten double what the city did get at least I think a million per person in the city would ve adequate
The voiceover , the visials and all the information is wonderfully curated , great work👌🏼👌🏼
That Chevron story is infuriating
When that map of all the EPA super fund sites popped up during the love canal segment i thought no way it can't really be that bad. Then i went and looked it up for myself, It's way worse. I nearly fainted when i realized just how bad it is.
It's so wild that Texaco gets off with completely and utterly having no accountability for destroying these ppls' lives for generations to come, like damn. How can corporations be allowed to do shitt like this?
They could care less what happens to the population. They only care about the 💵💵 and their families.
I love nature because in the city is everywhere noise and when you come in the nature you can hear only silence
4:14 i swear i have seen that guy on tiktok laughing
Thank you, NNPTC for teaching me enough to understand the reactor accident
Hooker’s love canals tend to be pretty toxic as a rule.
Doesn’t stop you from dipping your worm into them tho does it?
That one in Ecuador is insane they literally got away with letting people die for money. Absolutely disgusting.
Thanks!!
I remember the Time cover of the Bopal disaster. The picture of the deceased child’s face when they were uncovering the grave still resonates with me today.
Greed and Severe Negligent is MOSTLY the cause of those DEADLY INDUSTRIAL DISASTERS. I don't like that A LOT.
Do you like it a little?
There is a mental health STATE hospital near me and I always thought it's weird that on that property I have NEVER EVER STILL TO THIS DAY haven't seen any birds or animals on it. Makes ya think. .what is wrong with that land.
Texaco needs to clean their shit up
I love your videos, I look forward to them, and get excited when I see you posted!
ROFL, 80% of Americans with retirements are invested in $OXY and 100% fell out of a “Love Canal”.
Irony is iconic.
The PBS TH-cam channel has a great documentary abt Love Canal. It goes into how the authorities dismissed the resident's concerns mostly because it was housewives who brought it to their attention. It also touches on some of the racial issues because a housing project was also impacted, but didn't receive as much attention/assistance.
This is the result of ignorance, greed and laziness.
Oil companies trying hardest to save environments challenge (impossible)
This was a great video. Thanks you for all the time spent.
On the Amazon video I was like please don’t be us please don’t be us and then you said Texaco and I felt so sick to my stomach by the end. Man we suck sometimes. Actually a lot more than I like to acknowledge.
On the SL1 video I have a question: you said SL1 was the first meltdown. Are you not considering the Simi Valley SSFL meltdown in 1959 because it was a considered a partial meltdown? Sorry if I misunderstood you.
i had a job driving a dump truck to deliver clay. the school still stood. in the access streets parallel to the canal there were multiple blind, deaf child signs close to each other. to this day it still makes me cry thinking about it.
Thank you for the content, I love your channel.
“History shows us again and again how nature points out the folly of men.” Godzilla-The Blue Oyster Cult