The pipe belonged to Tesla. The dark liquid was wastewater from the company's nearly $1 billion lithium refinery, which began operations in December 2024 and
Why no photo?
Seems like a photo of a pipe dislodging black sludge next to a photo of a tesla factory in a news page would instill a better sense of “evil corporation” to me.
This article links to another article that has it on video and photographed. You can see the clearly black liquid flowing into the clear water in the drainage ditch. Helps to click the link and read the article!
I did and expected to find an image in the article. See, had I posted this on lemmy, I’d have posted an article closer to the source, with the photos. I assumed others would do the same. I assume too much, sorry.
Why no photo?
Seems like a photo of a pipe dislodging black sludge next to a photo of a tesla factory in a news page would instill a better sense of “evil corporation” to me.
Said pipe:
That’s comically evil, except it’s not funny.
At a rate of like 2 and a half gallons of that sludge a second.
For some reason I was expecting it to be fully submerged underground at least until the ditch
This article links to another article that has it on video and photographed. You can see the clearly black liquid flowing into the clear water in the drainage ditch. Helps to click the link and read the article!
I did and expected to find an image in the article. See, had I posted this on lemmy, I’d have posted an article closer to the source, with the photos. I assumed others would do the same. I assume too much, sorry.