It was last year, 2007, that Chevron applied to the EPA to get a special waiver to break violate the Clean Water Act, and triple the amount of toxic wastes it would dump into the Cook Inlet. In order for that petition for a special waiver to succeed, Chevron needed the approval of the Governor of Alaska. Sarah Palin could have said no. She could have stopped the massive pollution of commercial fishing waters in Alaska. Sarah Palin didn’t do that. She decided to give Big Oil exactly what it wanted.
Cadmium, arsenic and lead aren’t just poisonous to sea life. They’re also poisonous to human beings. Human beings are being sold fish and shellfish caught in the Cook Inlet to eat as seafood. Studies have found that Cook Inlet fish and shellfish contain dangerous levels of these heavy metals.
The tragedy of it all is that there is technology referred to as reinjection that could greatly reduce the amount of toxic waste that enters Cook Inlet waters, while not reducing Chevron’s production capacity at all. Chevron refuses to consider reinjection, however, preferring to dump toxic waste in the old, sloppy ways developed generations ago.
Cadmium, arsenic and lead aren’t just poisonous to sea life. They’re also poisonous to human beings. Human beings are being sold fish and shellfish caught in the Cook Inlet to eat as seafood. Studies have found that Cook Inlet fish and shellfish contain dangerous levels of these heavy metals.
The tragedy of it all is that there is technology referred to as reinjection that could greatly reduce the amount of toxic waste that enters Cook Inlet waters, while not reducing Chevron’s production capacity at all. Chevron refuses to consider reinjection, however, preferring to dump toxic waste in the old, sloppy ways developed generations ago.
