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RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 19 hours ago

Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into manholes

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Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into manholes

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RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 19 hours ago
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into Las Vegas manholes—then ‘feigned compliance’ and was caught doing it again
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A Nevada regulator accused Boring of dumping drilling fluids into a county sewage system in Las Vegas, the latest in a series of violations against the moonshot tunneling startup.

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  • vladmech@lemmy.world
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    Unless it’s doing substantial harm to the company’s bottom line, and at least a few execs go to jail, this is just another line item for doing business.

    • Lucky_777@lemmy.world
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      This. Need harsher consequences

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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      I mean if you were charged like $2 if you got caught speeding 30mph over the limit, would you feel like you need to stop? Hell, a better analogy is probably what, 5 cents?

      • TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip
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        More like if you were able to charge a $5000 higher delivery fee for being fast and get charged $2 for speeding, and they wait til you are finished with the delivery to mail you the ticket.

    • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
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      Classic Chris Kohler

    • stoy@lemmy.zip
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      And this is why dayfines are fair and a food idea.

      Especiqlly if there is no upper limit on how expensive a single dayfine can be.

  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    No company headed by musk should be allowed to operate in the US

    • nelson@lemmy.world
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      anywhere

      Don’t shove him here we don’t need drilling fluids in our sewage system either.

  • then_three_more@lemmy.world
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    I feel like they dropped two 0s off what the fine should be.

  • tornavish@lemmy.cafe
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    Dumping drilling fluids into man holes is one of my favorite things to do

    • mech@feddit.org
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      Sounds Boring

  • recklessengagement@lemmy.world
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    And you know that fine is nowhere near the cost of proper cleanup, let alone the cost of ecological damage

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