By This is more of an actual news post than a film news article, but it speaks loudly about both industries. While I was at McDonalds busy acquiring my own toxic sludge, I saw this in one of the San Francisco Chronicle newspapers laying by the cash register:
“Higher than normal levels of cancer-causing hexavalent chromium, or chromium 6, have been detected over the past year in groundwater more than a half-mile beyond the previous boundary of contamination in the San Bernardino County farming community, water quality regulators revealed last week.
The toxic spillage at a PG&E facility southeast of Hinkley was first exposed by Erin Brockovich, a paralegal at a Southern California firm whose court battle on behalf of sickened residents against the giant utility was recounted in a 2000 movie starring Julia Roberts.”
Not only is the spillage still present, but it’s also migrating to nearby locations after all these years. So apparently not even feel-good class action lawsuit movies based on true stories are enough to rid the planet of filth and villainy. What else is there left to do to help us fight the injustices of the world through film? I know! Erin Brockovich reboot moviestarring…
This is more of an actual news post than a film news article, but it speaks loudly about both industries. While I was at McDonalds busy acquiring my own toxic sludge, I saw this in one of the San Francisco Chronicle newspapers laying by the cash register:
"Higher than normal levels of cancer-causing hexavalent chromium, or chromium 6, have been detected over the past year in groundwater more than a half-mile beyond the previous boundary of contamination in the San Bernardino County farming community, water quality regulators revealed last week.
The toxic spillage at a PG&E facility southeast of Hinkley was first exposed by Erin Brockovich, a paralegal at a Southern California firm whose court battle on behalf of sickened residents against the giant utility was recounted in a 2000 movie starring Julia Roberts."
Not only is the spillage still present, but it's also migrating to nearby locations after all these years. So apparently not even feel-good class action lawsuit movies based on true stories are enough to rid the planet of filth and villainy. What else is there left to do to help us fight the injustices of the world through film? I know! Erin Brockovich reboot movie starring the new Spider-Man cast! Ugh.
[Via SF Gate]