No wonder the bankrupt “green” company Solyndra is handing out big bonuses to its remaining mnagers – they have their hands full getting rid of all of the toxic waste we the taxpayers paid for. So much for environmentally-friendly energy.
The Fremont Fire Department’s Jay Swardenski oversees the cleanup. He said some materials, such as cadmium, are toxic, and hard to dispose of.
“They don’t degrade at all, so we want to make sure we don’t allow these materials to get into the environment,” he said.
It’s not just the leftover hazardous materials, but also the machinery used to apply them to the glass tubes. “Certainly those tools will need to be decontaminated, cleaned up, handled correctly as they are taken apart,” he said.
Swardenski told CBS 5 the disposal process is going smoothly in Fremont, but what about nearby Milpitas? Solyndra leased a building on California Circle for the final assembly of its solar panels. But the cleanup at the leased building in Milpitas is in limbo, because Solyndra doesn’t want to pay.
CBS 5 found the building locked up, with no one around. At the back, a hazardous storage area was found. There were discarded buckets half filled with liquids and barrels labeled “hazardous waste.” (Read More)
Nice. They can pay big bonuses but they can’t pay to clean up hazardous waste. How typical.
Update: Linked by Temple of Mut – thanks!
Understand the mindset of the Solyndra Corporate elite.
Their entire purpose was to steal as much money for themselves as possible. They had no interest whatever in producing a successful and cost-effective product.
The fancy building, the fine speeches, everything to do with the manufacture ond distribution of solar panels was a nothing more than a front, a vehicle with which to plunder the taxpayer.
They – of course – succeeded, but only with the complicit help of many politicans equally as crooked as themselves.
You will find people like this everywhere in American business today, people whose only goal is to create corporations and companies that will funnel government money – often vast amounts – into their pockets.
They will not go to jail, since they always set up fall guys to take the hit. The only way we will get justice for their crimes is at the end of a rope.
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