Thursday, September 23, 2010

Money solves everything

Bayer Crop Science agreed to pay the state Department of Environmental Protection nearly half a million dollars to settle several alleged violations at its plant in Institute over the past year. 
But is that money can buy every thin. the condition of the plant has to be good so that the workers health is not affected.
Can the company stop the damage it is causing to the environment by just paying a big amount of money? Why is not the company thinking about it, why only the profit is the main the thing for them, not the condition of the place they are living in.the poisonous chemicals which they deposit in a underground tank effects the water of that community. This in turn affects the health of the people of that community. Not only this it also effects the marine life.The gases that it release to the air causes air pollution at the same time.the gases have a pungent smell causing difficulty for the local people.
The 2008 explosion and fire at the Institute site that killed Bayer employees. However, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board has said that the accident endangered a tank 80 feet away that was used for daytime storage of the deadly substance. Both the DEP and Bayer emphasized this week's settlement did not involve that incident. http://www.dailymail.com/News/Kanawha/201009220698 How a Institute can be so irresponsible? How can the DEP take it so easily and solve the matter with just taking some amount from them? If it continues this way then soon the environment will be destroyed.  

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