The City Built on a Toxic Dump - Love Canal Documentary

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  @noahjester8471 · 4 years ago

  A word of advice to land developers and aspiring designers: when you are given advanced warning that your new land is a dumping ground, don't pretend potential problems don't exist.

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  @CCCW · 4 years ago

  "Hooker dumps toxic waste into love canal" sounds like a fake news crawl from a video game

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  @TheMajorActual · 4 years ago

  Let&apos;s be perfectly clear, here -- Hooker Chemical &quot;sold&quot; the site to the city of Niagara Falls only after the city threatened to seize the site from Hooker Chemical via eminent domain. Hooker - knowing what would happen - told the city repeatedly that it was not a suitable site for a school or housing. When the company realized that the city was going to seize it anyway, they &quot;sold&quot; it to the city for a single dollar, and an acknowledgement of the city assuming liability for the site, despite the company telling them specifically that it was not suitable for anything but a park, if that. It was the city - <i>not</i> Hooker Chemical - that wanted to develop the area into a residential neighborhood, complete with an elementary school. The city knew that the site was a toxic hellscape, but they didn&apos;t care...until it blew up in their faces, and they started screaming to blame &quot;eVil bUsInEsS sCuM&quot;. <br><br>The people who suffered as a result didn&apos;t suffer because of evil corporate greed, but because of an out-of-control city government with delusions of adequacy, that refused to take responsibility for its actions.

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  @Motoguzzi2231 · 4 years ago

  Contrary to popular opinion, the school district was the real villain.despite being warned that the clay should not be disturbed and no structures with basements should be erected they ignored it, with devastating effect.

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  @blowinkk9396 · 4 years ago

  Funny how the company told them what was in the ground, But they decide it was a good idea to build a school and house on the land. And somehow that was the companies fault?

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  @joeblow8982 · 4 years ago

  Can we all just take a minute and appreciate the fact that at one point this area was technically the &quot;Hooker Love Canal&quot;

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  @FoxSullivan · 4 years ago

  One of the first cases I&apos;ve ever seen in which a big corporation is actually not the bad guy; they adhered to what was standard at a time, and did an effort that was not even required back then, to seal off all the waste they dumped there. But the city threatened to use eminent domain to get the land, since they wanna develop and get more taxpayers living there. The company told them what was underground there, and warned them not to build there, but they went ahead, and then looked the other way when shit hit the fan.<br><br>It&apos;s a rare case in which I absolutely believe the company had no fault here, but even that considered they agreed to pay compensations. The city council, and mostly the school district, should&apos;ve been held accountable the hardest.

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  @Treblaine · 4 years ago

  This was really the fault of the housing developers and the city. They selected a toxic waste dump, bought it cheap, ignored the warnings, and made it worse by breaching containment. BUT it&apos;s far easier to sue a rich company than sue the city or the construction firm who definitely did not have the money to pay for the harm they did.<br><br>It&apos;s a shame that&apos;s how lawsuits have to work, you don&apos;t sue who is most responsible but sue who is most able to pay.

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  @gerald4535 · 4 years ago

  &quot;Residents deal with inexplicable health problems to this day&quot;....Gee, I wonder why. This is insane that this happened. Great video.

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  @odenblackcat2749 · 4 years ago

  The northern, rich areas of Oakland County, Michigan are built on landfills filled with PCBs, asbestos, and other contaminants from Detroit’s Industrial Age. <br>The residents have no idea what is underneath them. <br>Auburn Hills currently has a massive landfill. Right by the old Palace that was recently demolished. <br>Methane gas can be smelled and tasted in the air at all the Mc Mansions.

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  @tomr1630 · 4 years ago

  I think they sued the wrong people. Hooker warned the school board about the dangers. The local government should have been held responsible, not Hooker.

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  @badwolf7367 · 4 years ago

  I remember watching this when it first broke on the news. It was scary and heartbreaking. &nbsp;I remember an interview with one of the resident, a wife who had a garden growing fruits and vegetables. She was trying to keep her family healthy never knowing she was poisoning them because anything grown in that contaminated soil was deadly. Her husband died from a rare form of cancer and she was later to also develop cancer. They were just ordinary people trying to make it in the world and they were killed (actually murder would be more appropriate) by greedy developers and businessmen.

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