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Re:Removing oil left behind in 2.5B gallons of produced wate... by hanniabu on Friday March 22, 2019 @02:18PM (#19465322)
This is something I never understood. When everybody is polluting waterways and ground water, it doesn't really get diluted. These companies should be forced to operate responsibly are cease operations. Everyone is for capitalism until we start trying to hold them responsible. If we held them responsible, they'll either adapt or they'll go under and a competitor that is able to operate responsibly will appear.
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Re:Removing oil left behind in 2.5B gallons of produced wate... by tomatotomato37 on Friday March 22, 2019 @02:38PM (#19465552)
It can still dilute if everybody is releasing different pollutants; it's only a problem in clusters of similar industry that overwhelms intake filtering.

As to your second argument, the EPA's literal purpose is to force citizens to operate their life/business responsibly; if you think their standards are too lenient than take it up with your elected representative. One of my biggest frustrations I see here are people pushing to overthrowing everything for grand new systems, completely ignore the implementation details for such a system, and then get frustrated when the system fails because of the details. The system to accomplish your goals is already fucking there, use it.

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Re:Removing oil left behind in 2.5B gallons of produced wate... by hanniabu on Saturday March 23, 2019 @09:58AM (#19470465)
> take it up with your elected representative.

One of my biggest frustrations I see here are people suggesting that you take things up with your representatives as if big corporations don't control the government.

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