Black Mountain Rises in Detroit
https://portside.org/2017-12-18/black-mountain-rises-detroit
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Author: Rashida Tlaib
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New York Times
'“What is really, really disturbing to me is how some companies treat the city of Detroit as a dumping ground. Nobody knew this was going to happen.'
Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan state
representative from Detroit, on
the three-story pile of petroleum
coke covering an entire city block
on the side of the Detroit River - a
byproduct of Canada’s oil sands boom
and put there by a company
controlled by Charles and David Koch,
wealthy industrialists who back a
number of conservative and libertarian
causes including activist groups that
challenge the science behind climate change