Flint, Michigan Residents Paying $200 Per Month For Lead Polluted Toxic Drinking Water

Instagram post about Flint, Michigan water crisis (Courtesy of Industry On Blast blog)

Imagine you were being forced to drink suspiciously brown colored water every day that bears a foul smell. Imagine you had to bathe in it daily as well for years. Imagine you were charged $300 per month for this offensive, toxic water and if you didn't like it, you were forced to shell out hundreds of dollars per month in bottled water.

Well, that's what the 99,000 low income residents of Flint, Michigan have endured since 2011. They've been forced to pay for poison water that has killed some residents in Flint, while making others quite ill. Despite their protests, nothing has been done. Recent bad publicity is forcing the government's hand in addressing the problem.

However, cancer rates are going to soar in Flint, Michigan. In ingesting the lead polluted water, where other toxins are also present as contaminants, particles attach to the cells damage the cellular structure (of the human body).

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Michigan Governor Rick Snyder

The U.S. Government is once again showing the nation and the world it does not care about black people. The largely African-American city of Flint, Michigan, home to 55,000 residents, has been has been subjected to lead poisoning in drinking and bathing water. Many people have died and others sickened by the lead poisoning.

The citizens of Flint have complained about the brown colored, toxic water for years and nothing has been done about. The  governor of the state, Rick Snyder, has pledge to fix the problem, but is refusing to fix the corroded, lead contaminated pipes, despite a state surplus of $1.2 billion dollars.

Flint, Michigan  

 

Congress should have immediately approved emergency funds through a bill to address the problem, then take the money back from the State of Michigan's surplus. It is a serious crisis that will impact the resident of Flint who have been exposed to the contaminants for years to come. The cancer rates will soar in Flint. Neurological disorders will also become more prominent in the area. 

When you buy a home, if it is discovered the property had lead paint, a specialist team, who are dressed in hazmat gear, will come out to the residence, carefully prep it and gingerly remove all the lead paint, careful not to drop any of it in surrounding areas, then package it all for proper disposal. They don't even allow themselves to be exposed to it. Now think about the fact the residents of Flint have been drinking and bathing in these terrible toxins for 2-years. It is a real human crisis that needs to be swiftly addressed and those responsible held to account in a court of law.  

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Film Crew Scheduled To Dig Up Atari Landfill But Is It A Good Idea

Atari 2600

The Fuel Industries film crew of Ottawa, Canada is scheduled to do an excavation dig of a 3-year-old Alamogordo, New Mexico landfill site, where video game company Atari buried a significant number of items in cement. As much as I loved Atari, I don't think this is a good idea.

 It's hardly a time capsule and not worth the risk, as such an endeavor will be toxic and carcinogenic. You are going to be releasing toxins into the environment, especially when you start chipping away at the cement to retrieve the items contained inside. It is highly inadvisable.

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Film crew to dig up Atari landfill site, maybe score 3.5 million copies of E.T.

A documentary crew has received approval to dig up the New Mexico desert site where Atari supposedly buried millions of unsold pieces of Atari 2600 software and hardware. The crew hopes to finally confirm or refute one of gaming's most enduring urban legends.

The city council in Alamogordo, New Mexico granted approval for the project this week. Ottawa-based multimedia and marketing firm Fuel Industries will excavate the site some time in the next six months for a documentary it's filming, local news site KRQE reports. This year marks what will be the 30 year anniversary of the assumed September 1983 burial, which came during the height of the great video game crash. That sudden market reversal supposedly left Atari with millions of unsold and unsalable cartridges and systems, which were dumped in an Alamogordo landfill and later covered in concrete...

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