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They make a billion contaminating the water and pay a fine of $20 million. That's a $980 million profit. The punishment doesn't fit the crime

Deterrence has to beat the next quarter’s profit. Treat contamination like a recurring liability—per-gallon penalties plus audits—otherwise “cost of doing business” is the strategy.

Legal for a price, in this case it is a bargain for Amazon.

Amazon execs: "$20.5 million? We'll take it out of petty cash!" followed by endless laughter

Small price to pay for the hundreds of millions they make in profit from them.

Fines and settlements are of absolutely no use to “stop” corporations. It is a spit in the ocean to them. In a just system they would be dragged through the courts as criminals.

They make more than this one minute. Hand slap at best.

Me too, but it’d take a whistle blower because that information would never be released.

Medical bills sit downstream of cleanup: you can’t remediate a aquifer and still leave families paying. Any “settlement” should include a health fund tied to exposure, plus monitoring that lasts longer than the PR cycle.

The years to clean an Aquifer............................. 5000 years

I think the reason why they're still putting a up is because we got centrist democrats that don't give a flying fuck about us. They only care about their money also! Cause Michigan has fought hard not to keep them here they are going to contaminate the great lakes!

20 million dollars is nothing to Amazon. Fine them 20 billion dollars.

$20m is far from the replacement value of a healthy groundwater system.

Too bad you can't drink $20.5 million of contaminated ground water. I'm glad to see communities getting together to protect our environment!

BBC UK has been showing interviews with MPs who seem obsessed with data centers and the need for energy to power them. AI is quickly becoming burdensome to the human population while simultaneously threatening to unemploy said human population. There may need to be a collective resistance movement.

And that will be paid for by their tax cuts.

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While our states are literally plying them money to continue!!!!🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

for Amazon this is pocket change

That seriously does NOT sound like enough.

Amazon did not contaminate water, farmers did. The only thing Amazon did was pumping up contaminated water and evaporating part, leaving the nitrates in less water, to higher concentration. Just as farmers spraying their fields do.

Bezos’ wedding cost 50 mill! It should be 10x as much

It’s not much of a punishment but it’s a start.

Chump change for Amazon

This is not new. Way back in the day the Arkansas River watershed was polluted by Tyson Foods.

Small group of us pushing back against Amazon in #Vermont

Corporations will only do the right thing when beaten into submission by government from above and workers from below.

OH MY GOD. :(. xAI is also polluting the air for black people who live near that data center. It’s sickening! The fact people are standing up to this asshats and saying NO makes me smile :)

Great testimony on social media from the Baraboo WI area. Woman owns a horse farm and describes at the local meeting how it affected her source of water.

That’s like fining me a penny. Not going to change their behavior.

#Canada @charlieangus104.bsky.social we need to push our now majority government to put tethers on these corporations, and do it as part of the current #CUSMA talks. Taxpayers will pay while the companies will pay no taxes, and the electricity costs get downloaded to us, with no water protection.

What change? Amazon pays a pittance to avoid a legal challenge, and continues bad behaviour? This is normal business practice in the US. Corporations mess things up, then pay a small settlement to get away Scott free.

And who is paying to clean up their mess?

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Betcha Bezos has lots of land at his houses. He should build his data centers there.

“But it dropped my property taxes $100”

Amazon is one of 17 defendants. Pearson vs Port of Morrow class action. The settlement has yet to be approved by the court.

You want to shut down data centers—do you also want to stop shopping online?

Not enough

How about jail time instead of paying your way out of your ‘accountability.’ Judicial system sucks when you can pay your way out

Yet they aren’t paying their fair share of taxes.

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20m ain’t much if it’s meant to clean up the contamination

Wow, its like he stole a thousand bucks and his fine is to payback $2.00 of the money he stole. The two tiered justice system remains in full effect.

Fucking Amazon can find 20 mil in their couch.

This is a fine. Not a change to the system.

Amazon will happily pay $20M to build more data centers in more cities. It was still a great return on investment for them. The punishment doesn't come anywhere close to fitting the crime.

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Fight the power! We gotta fight the powers that be! P. E. 1989!

Let’s keep at it good people! Break this evil corrupt corporations!

This is what the disinfectants used in water treatment can do. @splcenter.org @bloomberglaw.com @aclu.org @naacpmainline.bsky.social @texashealth.bsky.social @adventhealth.bsky.social @businessinsider.com

Thought your post read familiar. Shouldn't you cite who you are repeating or else it's like plagiarism or something ? Lol

Groundwater is a big issue. You have to stop them before they pollute.

$20.5M is proof of harm, not repair. The win is you forced the system to admit it; the next win is bonds and monitoring that make contamination financially impossible.

What contaminates? Dioxin? Pentaclorophenol?

A day's profit for polluting groundwater? Seems more like a licensing fee than a fine.

Why settle?! He had to clean the mess he created

THEN this is why the 'building association' lobbyists are meeting with Senators and Congressmen to set in motion new legislation that would 'limit' the amount of civil damages if sued for pollution(s), and to lower the amount of EPA fines. Graham's group met with NC about 3 months ago.

$20m is like $10.00 for Bezos.. He makes $20 mil in an hour or 2..

For $20.5 million, they were permitted to contaminate ground water. Let's start calling fines for the wealthy what they are, Permits.

What's that, like 2 minutes of Amazon profits?

20 million is like getting a ticket for a tenth of a cent for normal people.

And in Maine, Mills ( running for senate seat ) gives the same ole corporate razz-ma-tazz, "But Jay needs the jobs" Balderdash, they need clean water and air.

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What about the guy who died there the other day?

how did these ever get approved?

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Just say NO TO DATA CENTERS

Honestly that sounds like a win for the data centers. $20m is a pittance for permanently contaminated groundwater, an unfixable problem.