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SpaceX accused of dumping mercury into Texas waters for years (www.popsci.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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SpaceX’s Starship launches at the company’s Starbase facility near Boca Chica, Texas, have allegedly been contaminating local bodies of water with mercury for years. The news arrives in an exclusive CNBCreport on August 12, which cites internal documents and communications between local Texas regulators and the Environmental Protection Agency.

SpaceX’s fourth Starship test launch in June was its most successful so far—but the world’s largest and most powerful rocket ever built continues to wreak havoc on nearby Texas communities, wildlife, and ecosystems. But after repeated admonishments, reviews, and ignored requests, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) have had enough.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I think we would’ve noticed if they had crashed an entire planet into Texas, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And to think it took this much self-inflicted falling from grace before it became admissible to point that "boy genius"'s enterprises should be prosecuted as much as anybody else for wrongdoing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Worker's rights transgressions? Yes. Bulldozing a frog pond? Yes. Dumping mercury? No, that makes no sense. I can't see where mercury would be introduced in any meaningful quantities.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

That explains a lot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (9 children)

The article has no details about the mercury beyond what is in the title. The specific issues it does talk about are things like water runoff, noise that frightens animals, and even "proximity to indigenous sacred lands" which are all, to be frank, trivial. Mercury (in significant amounts) is a problem. But a rocket making noise? Yeah, they do that.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I can see why Elon hates government regulatory bodies.

How dare they stop him poisoning millions of people and entire ecosystems, causing irreparable damage just so he can save a few bucks on waste disposal fees? This is so unfair!