Abbott: Ask Chemical Plants What's Inside

[TexasTowelie]

Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott, under fire for blocking public access to state records documenting the location of dangerous chemicals, said Texans still have a right to find out where the substances are stored — as long as they know which companies to ask.

“You know where they are if you drive around,” Abbott told reporters Tuesday. “You can ask every facility whether or not they have chemicals or not. You can ask them if they do, and they can tell you, well we do have chemicals or we don’t have chemicals, and if they do, they tell which ones they have.”

In a recently released decision by his office, Abbott, the Republican candidate for governor, said government entities can withhold the state records — in so-called “Tier II” reports — of dangerous chemical locations. The reports contain an inventory of hazardous chemicals.

But Abbott said homeowners who think they might live near stores of dangerous chemicals could simply ask the companies near their homes what substances are kept on site.

More at http://www.texastribune.org/2014/07/01/abbott-ask-chemical-plants-whats-inside/ .

[kentauros]

1. I knew Abbott was stupid,

but does he really think any company will reveal what they have stored on site? Does he not understand the concept of security? I seriously doubt that the FBI (or the rest of Homeland Security) would like just anybody to know what is stored at most chemical plants.

I'm not defending the plants, but after September 11th, and Oklahoma City, I find it difficult to believe how he thinks this could work.

[freshwest]

2. Yeah, that's gonna work. Drive up to them and ask them for their propriety information, get tossed.

Abbott is either supremely ignorant or being sarcastic.

[hobbit709]

4. To quote JuanitaJean "Abbott is Rick Perry without the intelligence and charm"

[hobbit709]

3. JuanitaJean sums it up.

http://www.juanitajean.com/2014/07/01/knock-knock-hey-greg-abbott-are-there-dangerous-chemicals-in-your-damn-brain/