Inquiry: State 'fundamentally accountable' for Flint crisis [MI]

Associated Press ^ | Mar 23, 2016 10:35 AM EDT | David Eggert and Mike Householder

[Olog-hai]

The state of Michigan is “fundamentally accountable” for Flint’s lead-contaminated water crisis because of decisions made by its environmental regulators and state-appointed emergency managers who controlled the city, an investigatory task force concluded Wednesday.

The panel, appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder to review the disaster, said in a withering report that what happened in Flint is “a story of government failure, intransigence, unpreparedness, delay, inaction, and environmental injustice.” …

[equaviator]

“state-appointed emergency managers who controlled the city, an investigatory task force concluded Wednesday.”

If they accepted the responsibilities of their appointments then they’re the ones who ought to be held responsible.

[Menthops]

I think Snyder is going to have to lawyer up before this is all through.

[Tupelo]

Anytime one of the government fiascoes results in a health and an environmental disaster, you can be damn sure a government inquiry will be launched. They start with the dog catcher and work up the ladder until SHAZAM, they find an elected official of the other party and that is where the buck stops. In this case, I guess the first Republican they found was the Governor.
Same shite different day.

[factoryrat]

Has anyone around here ever been to Flint? I have, lived about an hour away. Flint is an older industrial hub built around GM, and was known as “Buick city” and was home to AC sparkplug, among other GM divisions. You couldn't throw a rock in any direction and not hit a GM plant. GM literally built these cities from the ground up starting in the early 1900’s. Pontiac, Flint, Saginaw, and Bay City were creations of GM.

Disregarding the history lesson, I would like to see the Michigan DEQ water quality reports regarding the Flint river, and the chemical analysis of the water.

I had a home next to a branch of the Flint river. That river feeds a reservoir that Flint gets it water from.

I want to see the analysis of what they found upstream of that reservoir.

[equaviator]

In which direction were you an hour from Flint?

[drjimmy]

They start with the dog catcher and work up the ladder until SHAZAM, they find an elected official of the other party and that is where the buck stops. In this case, I guess the first Republican they found was the Governor.

The "they" you are referring to were actually appointed by that very same governor, so they are most likely of the same party.

[zzwhale]

yeah....swell...
SO WHO IS GOING TO JAIL......
oh i see ..... the US taxpayer will take it in the wallet again for ANOTHER DEMOCRAT RUN CESSPOOL...
oh by the way.... wasn’t it the EPA that caused this mess in the first place..???
ANOTHER FED BUREAUCRAT WALKS AWAY UNSCATHED FOR CRIMINAL ACTS...
HOLDER
LERNER
CLINTON
OBAMA

[factoryrat]

Northeast of Lapeer, right off the North Branch of the Flint river.