Turmaniabig fine coming up, and will that fine transfer to consumers ? most probably...

ShihabyoooThe Mekong may be heavily polluted, but to be fair, turbidity is not always synonymous to "dirty." Not in this thread's context, at least. Relatively high turbidity is natural and acceptable -perhaps even required- to some ecologies...

TheLostSwedeSure, but you didn't see the crap that was floating around in the proper river when we crossed it. That said, it's not like rivers in most of Asia are what I'd call clean, at least not the ones I've seen travelling around here.

Turmaniabig fine coming up, and will that fine transfer to consumers ? most probably...

ShihabyoooI would expect so, with all the overpopulation, rapid expansion of industry and agriculture, and the occasional set of disasters every once in a while...

All I'm saying is that assessing pollution visually can be grossly misleading. Try seeing how the Nile looks upstream during Autumn vs how it looks downstream. Relatively clearer, but trust me, you *don't* want to touch the downstream water...

TheDeeGeeI expect GPU prices to rise even further to due Samsung VRAM price increase... lovely!

CallandorWoTLet's hope Texas taxpayers pay to fix all of this mess, but I doubt it, they will probably ask for the Federal taxpayer system to pay for it. ;)

Texas loves to be free and give companies tax breaks with no penalties involved in messes like this, cause they know the pushovers at the top will just get all 50 states to chip in to cover the bill.

Ah, ignorance is bliss

Why_MeTexas penal code calls for 2 years imprisonment and a $10,000 fine for illegal dumping in waterways. California’s penal code first offense calls for a $250-1000 fine

TheGuruStudThat's what collection ponds are for. Unless enough leaked into the creek to kill fish, then it doesn't matter.

CallandorWoTdid you not read it? it did leak into the creek and killed a crap ton of aquatic life...

TheGuruStudThat's not what I read. I don't see anything citing the creek having damage. It mentions the small tributary. There's not much of anything in those (minnows and crawfish). They'll move back up/downstream in no time and repopulate it.

CallandorWoTisn't that connected to the creek though...?

TheGuruStudOne would assume the creek is order of magnitudes larger, so it was diluted to nonlethal levels. Otherwise, the report would say the entire length of the creek is dead.

CallandorWoTeh, it still probably killed some in the creek, it didn't dilute right away, just was washed away faster/diluted faster. but logically one could conclude some creek like was killed at the entry point where the transition takes place. but since that all gets flushed downstream you can't see it as well.

at least its getting cleaned up now

TheUn4seenYou guys get on a high horse, but let's think for a second about why corporations do those things? Maybe, just maybe, because of constant consumer pressure and greed for cheap toys? Companies like Samsung have to cut costs wherever they can or the consumers will buy cheaper shit from China - a place where things like natural environment and human rights are just obstacles which can be easily avoided thanks to the massively corrupt government.
I once worked with a person who conducted consumer research and the results are a big part of my misanthropy. You guys (a.k.a the consumers) overwhelmingly said you wouldn't pay 25 euros more for an item worth a thousand euros if it meant the workers would be treated in accordance with European employment laws. In other words, for 25 euros people are willing to accept child labor and forced labor. Remember that for a single person who actually cares abut the real cost of consumer greed there are hundreds of thousands who don't care, they just want a new toy and will only buy the top result of sorting by "price: lowest first".

Also, guess who will pay for this little mishap? Consumers directly through higher prices, or consumers indirectly through government subsidies and tax breaks?