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Originally Posted by FarmerFran
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I didn't read the whole thing, but I did get this far -
But the sprawling facility, bordered on one side by forest and on the other by blue seas, faces a major challenge: what to do with the roughly 4 million metric tons of toxic waste produced every year - enough, approximately, to fill 1,667 Olympic-size swimming pools.
In 2020, the companies behind the project told the government they had a solution: They would pump the waste into the ocean. They ultimately backtracked in the face of public pressure. But it's not clear that the on-land storage alternative they've offered instead is significantly safer.
Pump it into the ocean... brilliant!
Then they say they aren't going to do it but who wants to bet against them eventually doing it anyway.
Four million metric tons (that's 8.8 billion pounds for U.S. readers) of toxic waste per year... from just this one plant... is apparently a small price to pay for our forced march to electrification. But it's in Indonesia so who cares as long as the air quality in California and New York improves... even if only by a statistically insignificant amount.
The hypocrisy and lies surrounding this "save the planet" movement are truly mind boggling.