inventory that it had filed with the state. it never told any of the authorities involved in responding to the spill that this other chemical might be implicated. but yesterday at about 10:00 a.m., the head of emergency response for the state s department of environmental protection says just before the daily meeting that they have now about that leak to try to coordinate the response, just before that meeting at the leak site yesterday, the president of freedom industry pulled the state official aside and asked to speak with him privately. he then told the state official about this second chemical that was also in the tank and handed him data sheets on the material. the freedom industries president then told the state official, quote, i m going to have a terrible day today. yes, he s going to have a terrible day. meanwhile, 300,000 people in west virginia are just finding out that thanks to him and his company, their drinking water was contaminated, yes, with a coal washing chemical t
drink. that s nice. it s been a bad two weeks in west virginia since freedom industry tank number 396 spilled its contents into elk river and started this whole disaster. and now there s more. turns out freedom industries just realized there was something else in that leaking tank. a second chemical was in the tank. the president of freedom industries decided to tell the state yesterday, 12 days into the spill, about there being a second chemical in that tank. the company had never listed this chemical on its chemical inventory that it had filed with the state. it never told any of the authorities involved in responding to the spill that this other chemical might be implicated. but yesterday at about 10:00 a.m., the head of emergency response for the state s department of environmental protection says just before the daily meeting that they have now about that leak to try to coordinate the response, just before that meeting at the leak site yesterday, the president of freedom industry
response for the state s department of environmental protection says just before the daily meeting that they have now about that leak to try to coordinate the response, just before that meeting at the leak site yesterday, the president of freedom industry pulled the state official aside and asked to speak with him privately. he then told the state official about this second chemical that was also in the tank and handed him data sheets on the material. the freedom industries president then told the state official, quote, i m going to have a terrible day today. yes, he s going to have a terrible day. meanwhile, 300,000 people in west virginia are just finding out that thanks to him and his company, their drinking water was contaminated, yes, with a coal washing chemical that smells like licorice that makes you sick and has long-term health effects, but it was contaminated with pph, which is also said to irritate the eyes and skin and to be harmful if swallowed, but how harmful? don t kno