Posted on 02/27/2023 12:56:00 AM PST by Libloather
The sooty black mold smothers homes, porches, and cars, locals say. It obscures street signs, and coats the leaves and bark of trees. It cements itself to any stationary object, and it makes residents question the safety of the air they breathe.
An out-of-control black "whiskey fungus," known as Baudoinia compniacensis, fueled by ethanol vapor from the Jack Daniel's facilities, has been a menace to locals in Lincoln County, Tennessee, ever since the famous liquor company started building six new barrel houses in 2018 and launched plans to build 14 more, locals say. Now, infuriated residents are demanding the company and the county answer for the damage and sinking property values, and to prove the ethanol-filled air is safe to breathe.
Patrick Long, who lives just adjacent to the Jack Daniel's barrel houses, and whose wife, Christi, filed a lawsuit against Lincoln County, told Insider the community has two main demands: an air-filtration system that could block the ethanol emissions and stunt the growth of the fungus, and an environmental impact study evaluating the amount of ethanol emanating from the barrel houses and any health risks it poses.
"I'm extremely concerned. My wife has breathing problems. One of the neighbors got cancer," Long said. "It's in the air. And you really, probably don't want to be breathing that in. But nobody has done a test to determine if it's actually poisonous."
Long said the six existing barrel houses mean he has to spend roughly $10,000 per year power-washing his house with a potent mixture of water and Clorox. He also said local officials have given up trying to clean the fungus-covered street signs and simply replace them when they become too blackened to be legible.
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Very interesting
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I’d be enraged by it too.
Where’s the town been, other than paid off, for the last 5 years?
For as long as that operation has been there, why is it just now suddenly a problem?
That’s exactly how ‘The Last of Us’ on HBO Max started out. Looking less like a dystopian fantasy and more like Nostradamus every day.
One of my neighbors got cancer, another one has asthma, and I don’t live near that whiskey plant.
Weak evidence.
Now? Simply because Jack Daniels was a White Supremacist.
But the bourbon trail in Kentucky doesn’t?
I think the black mold is tolerable if you are making tons of money.
Oh wow...poisoning their neighbors. Not good.
They could be breathing corn mold, which causes farmer’s lung in those who clean the grain bins.
The whiskey business in Laetenceburg Indiana finally just bought the adjacent homes and tore them down
The fumes ate a health hazard.
Indeed. What about all of the ethanol plants around the country that produce the crap used in our gasoline. Do those residents see the same? Can we start shutting them down?
Cue Erin Brokovich and a Class Action Lawsuit to empty the Jack Daniel's pockets.....
Driving the company out of business and the jobs disappear. Taxpayers ALWAYS get to pick up the slack.
Lawrenceburg
Of course...there are barrel houses...
i have what looks like the same stuff growing on my gutters.. i should sue jack daniels too!
Now the know what the Chinese people have to live with.
Blankety-Blank Temperance Unionists! Always looking to spoil the party.
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