https://portside.org/2013-05-18/black-mountain-rises-detroit

'“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