Originally published at: Residents distrust Boring Company's plan to dump wastewater in a river | Boing Boing
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C’mon, Musk, this should be an easily solvable problem for a super-genuis. Since it is only 142,000 gallons per day maybe you could make your Twitter employees drink it all. Or everyone could take a couple 100 gallons home each night. Try naming it MuskWater and get your sycophants to promote it for you.
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Like this guy,
Elon Musk moved his startup, The Boring Company, to my neighbor’s 70 acre cow pasture in Bastrop, Texas in May 2021. I’m actually an Elon fan, so I was initially excited about what they would be doing.
However,
Turns out to be a rather long “however!” He goes into even greater detail in this well-edited video:
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I mean, it’s a total mystery, it’s not like he has a long history of openly flaunting laws and regulations and… oh wait.
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Yeah, even ignoring Musk, the plain fact is you should always mistrust a big corporation’s plans for what it wants to do with waste.
Corporations have a knack for breaking the law, screwing over the public, then maybe getting a fine that is far lower than the profit it made by dumping the waste in the first place. Punishment is just “the cost of business.”
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Texans: Everything is bigger in Texas!
Other States: (Privately snicker about the size of Texas’ Colorado River)
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If only they had some way to dig a big hole in the ground to put it in!
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