A Texas Drainage District Walked Its Ditch on a Routine Inspection. They Found a Pipe They Didn’t Recognize Discharging Black Liquid From Tesla’s $1 Billion Lithium Refinery
A Texas Drainage District Walked Its Ditch on a Routine Inspection. They Found a Pipe They Didn’t Recognize Discharging Black Liquid From Tesla’s $1 Billion Lithium Refinery
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[black oil](https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/Purity) perhaps?
It’s a frustrating reality to watch a small percentage of the population (elite & rich) generate a massive portion of global emissions.
Texas will give them the equivalent of a parking ticket in fines. This is Texas we’re talking about.
Local officials: “We found arsenic and hexavalent chromium coming out of your factory into a public ditch via an undisclosed pipe.”
Tesla: “We have a permit for other stuff, and since those toxins are not listed, they are allowed.”
State of Texas: “We agree with Tesla.”
> Tesla’s “acid-free clean process” lithium refinery has been quietly discharging 231,000 gallons of black wastewater per day into a Texas ditch — and the people who own that ditch found out by walking it, not from Tesla or state regulators.
That seems like an insane daily amount to keep hidden.
Just plug that pipe, should fix it. Let it back up inside that den of p*dophiles
Oh man, someone’s getting fired*
*Reassigned from scapegoat to some other position and replaced with the next scapegoat for the next scandal
Elon is using Texas as a “consequence free zone.” The state officials are either too corrupt or too inept to do anything and they simply allow him to do whatever he wants. His toddler son literally said on camera “we just do whatever we want.”
SpaceX is a menace. The Tesla factories are a menace. But until the pollution starts to kill west Texas billionaires, Gov Abbott isn’t doing a gd thing.
About 200 miles north is their big space ex factory. Its just upriver from Austin, which gets most of its drinking water from that river.
One of the many ways corporations and the rich steal “legally” from everyone else. If they are fined at all it will be a miniscule fraction of their profit and what it will cost everyone else to clean up or suffer from. And with a few spine transplants and some will this could all go away, which is the most frustrating thing of all, how EASY this is to fix.
New unknown drainage pipe on my property? It’s getting capped immediately.
And nothing will come from it
I am sure that they immediately got down on their knees and apologized to Musk.
This is lost on most Texans, but “Don’t mess with Texas” started as an anti-littering campaign because they were trashing their own state at an unbelievable rate.
… and they still are.
My solution: seal the pipe, make some popcorn, wait for the black liquid to overflow back into the factory.
Be a real shame if someone *accidentally* sealed up that pipe, causing all the non-water back into the polluter’s factory.
Fucking Texas again. That state is so corrupt and screwed up.
Can‘t think of a better state for this. Fuck both of them.
Install a valve. Close the valve.
The government agency that would’ve found this probably got cut during Elon’s DOGE corruption project.
All waste water from industry should be safe enough to drink and the board of directors should demonstrate its safety by drinking it.
Surely multi billion dollars worth of fines and them paying for the clean up will follow right?
Not them just paying like half a million to two people and forgetting about it…right?
Cement up the pipe. Let it back up into the factory. Fuck tesla.
Musk’s companies, just do this.
I own (along with many other Cards Against Humanity players) a partial ownership in a strip of land in Texas, along the border. Purchased in order to fight against Trump’s Wall, and protect the land’s environment for endangered species.
SpaceX just ignored the boundary, destroyed much of the habitat and started storing a bunch of SpaceX bullshit on the land.
I still don’t know where that lawsuit it, but they did ignore all environmental, “zoning” and even property right laws, because, that’s just what Elon does.
But regulations bad amiright?
The fine for this will be insignificant. No one will be persuaded to stop doing this while fines are just part of the cost of doing business. Fines should be company ending for things like this.