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Absolute tragedy.
A corporate crime on the grandest scale. The paper doesn't say whether there were any repercussions. Meanwhile…
How long do you think the delay would be if it concerned the families of the government officials 'responsible' for cleaning the water or building the care home? So much for transparency and accountability in Canadian government.
That's weird considering mercury was and is kinda valuable.
Maybe it was mixed in with something else and wasn't considered valuable enough to salvage/filter out. I also wonder if the 20,000lbs number is over a period of many years. Super messed up either way though, I don't even know where one would start cleaning this up. :(
That’s…worse in a lot of ways. Mercury compounds are way way fucking bad and are even more dangerous than “just” straight elemental mercury.
Maybe/probably but on the scale of 20000lbs that still seems odd. Although at 113lbs/gal that's only 175 gallons but still, mercury is usually used in extremely small quantities.
Typically as a vapor, even. And it has a fairly low vapor pressure for a liquid. Not even that much vapor is needed.
It’s an immense amount of liquid mercury - especially since it probably had organic compounds in it too. Bioavailable mercury is truly fucked stuff, and those responsible for this should live the rest of their lives in a chemical shed.
I didn't think of it like that. Maybe it was mixed up and hard to separate from something else? Or maybe there were high taxes, etc, on commercial waste? Something like that?