The Walkerton Tragedy Revisited

[tay]

Hard to imagine it was sixteen years ago that negligence by the Ontario town's utilities manager, Stan Koebel, and his brother Frank, the water foreman, resulted in the lethal contamination of the town's well. Before it was over five were dead and fully half of the town's 5,000 population fell seriously ill.

The extent of the water pollution in the small Canadian town was concealed from the public, people drank from their taps and the result was ruined lives.

For academic microbiologist Joan Rose, who has observed water pollution outbreaks around the world, it was the worst that she had ever experienced.

“It affected me the most. Walkerton is a small small farming community. The people there were very gracious. Two pathogens came in to their water supply. They did not know children would die, or would suffer kidney failure and be on on dialysis for the rest of their lives. I saw what it did to people. I saw the pain.”

Walkerton was one of Canada’s worst-ever pollution incidents but there are hundreds of similar incidents every year around the world, albeit mostly less serious, says Prof Rose, who is laboratory director in water research at Michigan State University.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...-are-now-more-polluted-than-we-have-ever-been

 

[Walter]

Everyone knows Mike Harris told the Koebel brothers to contaminate the water.

 

[TenPenny]

And then we have Flint Michigan.


Walkerton is a stunning example of the ideal of the Conservative mindset: no government intereference, no regulation, no monitoring of anything.

 

[DaSleeper]

And the two brothers who did the faulty testing had nothing to do with it

 

[Walter]

Walkerton is a stunning example of the ideal of the Conservative mindset: no government intereference, no regulation, no monitoring of anything.

Who do you think the Koebels were werking for, the gubmint. It was a private sector lab that discovered the problem and finally got the brothers to flush the system and put out a boil water order. Gosh yer stoopid.

 

[TenPenny]

Who do you think the Koebels were werking for, the gubmint. It was a private sector lab that discovered the problem and finally got the brothers to flush the system and put out a boil water order. Gosh yer stoopid.

Of course they worked for the government. The government that decided that these jobs required no qualifications or training. That was my point, but you're such a fuking idiot you can't even figure that out.


You're a complet facking maroon. Stop sticking your finger in your own *** and licking the **** off them, it's making you even more stupid than you used to be.


go **** yourself.

 

[Danbones]

The herb yarrow stops e-coli dead in yer tract
while the patient lives

It makes for nice healthy calming tea
and grows well in the garden, and is discretely showy

 

[PoliticalNick]

And the two brothers who did the faulty testing had nothing to do with it

It was Harper...didn't you get the memo

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

And then we have Flint Michigan.

To be fair, Flint isn't Harper's fault.

 

[taxslave]

And then we have Flint Michigan.


Walkerton is a stunning example of the ideal of the Conservative mindset: no government intereference, no regulation, no monitoring of anything.

The whole thing was caused by government employees. That is the problem, trusting important things like monitoring the water supply to government.

 

[DaSleeper]

The whole thing was caused by government employees. That is the problem, trusting important things like monitoring the water supply to government.

Link?
As far as I can tell water testing had been privatized.