Did Flint's water become poisoned because of political favors to frackers?

Roughly 10,000 kids have been exposed to elevated levels of lead in the Flint, Michigan drinking water over the past one and a half years. The cost of addressing the problem has been estimated at $100 million to $1.5 billion.

How did this happen? Why was Flint's water supply switched from a good source to an acidic source that corroded the pipes and leached lead into the drinking water?

Steve Neavling in the Motor City Muckraker writes:

“The Flint water crisis that led to thousands of people being poisoned began because state officials maintained it would save the cash-strapped city money by disconnecting from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) and using a different source. But it turns out, DWSD offered the state-controlled city a deal that would have saved Flint more money by staying with Detroit.

… The offer by DWSD raises serious questions about whether Gov. Rick Snyder was lying when he insisted the water switch was motivated by saving money for Flint, which was under the control of a state emergency manager.

…Now it seems clear why Snyder wouldn’t release the e-mails [from 2013]: They would have revealed that the switch was not about saving money. So what was it about? Some have suggested that Snyder was motivated by a desire to break up DWSD and ultimately privatize it. … Others have suggested that Snyder wanted to start fracking operations along a new pipeline.” http://motorcitymuckraker.com/2016/01/23/gov-snyder-lied-flint-wate...

Regarding fracking in Michigan, Mark Maynard speculates:

“Would it surprise you to learn that the children of Flint were ultimately poisoned because Snyder’s donors demanded that a pipeline be built to service their fracking operations?" http://markmaynard.com/2016/01/could-the-flint-water-crisis-have-its-origins-in-a-desire-to-increase-fracking-in-michigan/

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Permalink Reply by David Allen Lilly on January 26, 2016 at 12:10am

I know I will get dusted for this, but here goes anyway.

Why in the world would the site allow this thread onto it's pages ?

I know why people respond to this idiocy, they guy is an easy mark and folks just cannot resist a slam dunk opportunity, myself included.

I enjoy a robust debate, even more I enjoy folks of different stripes exposing their moronic little fantasies for all the world to see, it actually helps keep people sane to see what insanity looks like.

But, enough is enough, and this is enough.

This is just stupid rumor mongering.

Cue the slings and arrows.

Permalink Reply by Deb Reynolds on January 26, 2016 at 1:59am

EXACTLY! 

everything you said, only louder. 

thank you.

Permalink Reply by paleface on January 26, 2016 at 1:00am

 Flint Michigan is a heavy Democrat city.How could they let this happen?

Permalink Reply by Barry D on January 26, 2016 at 2:46am

paleface,

Ever notice that all of the places cited for social failures are always run by Democrats?

Just proof of their failed ideas.

Permalink Reply by searcherone on January 26, 2016 at 1:39am

I am so proud of the responders to this discussion, you are spot on about the rampant use of disinformation to push an agenda.    Wonderful if this is an individual poster or a group pushing an agenda . . .just wondering.

Permalink Reply by Barry D on January 26, 2016 at 2:45am

searcherone,

These people never work alone. They are drones, fed false information and then told to spread it.

Notice the nonsense posted by our resident environmental extremist, there is not one original idea in any of his posts. Everyone of his posts is just the regurgitation misinformation spoon fed to him.

Permalink Reply by Thomas Lilli on January 26, 2016 at 4:12am
He's pretty notorious. Look him on the Internet.
Permalink Reply by Paul Heckbert on January 26, 2016 at 5:03am

Kansas City Star op-ed observes: "Racial and class insensitivity is certainly a factor. Flint is more than 55 percent African-American and has a 40 percent poverty rate. It’s easier to ignore people if they don’t look like you or vote for you."

Permalink Reply by Barry D on January 26, 2016 at 5:14am

Paul,

Now the oil and gas industry is racist? You are sad.

Flint (like most large American cities) is run by Democrats. So by your logic Democrats are racists.

Permalink Reply by Paul Heckbert on January 26, 2016 at 5:31am

I didn't say that. If you're going to assert that the oil and gas industry is racist, you should supply sources.

Permalink Reply by Barry D on January 26, 2016 at 6:00am

Paul,

Your the one linking the o&g industry to racism, not I.

If not, then why bring up the issue of racism?

Permalink Reply by David Allen Lilly on January 26, 2016 at 6:43am

Heckbert is just a character creation of the hard, anti-American leftists like barakHUSSEINobama, Bernie Sanders, Michael Moore etc. etc.

They saturate the internet with their leftist tripe because they know that no matter how idiotic they can keep their folks in line with the propaganda.

Now, as to Flint Michigan.

Michigan is, was, a deep blue state, many of you understand the democrats controlled it for just long enough to nearly run it and their cities right into the ground with their leftist/socialist/Marxist theories.

Every leftist thinks leftist societies would succeed if only they were run by their particular leftist ideas.

Anyhoo, it got so bad that the voters actually, gasp, elected a republican governor, and this has stirred the activists to action.

No one would have any trouble researching the thefts and pilfering's (Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick ), and they would then understand why Michigan voters did the unthinkable and elected, then reelected republican governor Rick Snyder.

Now these leftists have taken an issue they have obfuscated from it's reality and tried to turn it into a political win for their pathological objectives. The Flint water crisis is born of austerity measures (leftists hate austerity) necessary to try to reverse the states decline, but they did indeed miss-handle the project and it turned into a disaster.

The leftists like Heckbert have been quick to jump on the shoulders of the tragedy in Flint, using it to scream racism (Hillary Clinton, Michael Moore), anti-austerity and now, inconceivably, environmentalist tripe.

The truth is more complex than is being talked about, but most folks wont bother because they don't live there.

This is why I detest leftists, they will stand on the coffins of dead children and scream for gun laws that would not have prevented their deaths, and now Heckbert has his 5 minutes of fame riding the shoulders of sick kids to further an idiotic agenda of environmentalism as the anti-capitalist left wants you to believe.

Again, this contention is absolutely idiotic and has no business what so ever on this site.

The author's views would be no more relevant if he had contended that Martians landed in Michigan and turned the water into ice cream.

And, it should be absolutely clear to the site administrators that the author is not even a real boy, but a caricature of every nut job activist the leftist troll machine has to offer.

This thread cheapens the site.

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