Some interesting parallels between the recent W VA chemical spill and the ancient military doctrine of salted earth.

Additional Update here. 

Petition the white house to investigate the W Virginia toxic chemical spill.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/investigate-mismanagement-wv-water-disaster-state-and-county-officials-well-wv-american-water/m9S1TDRC

UPDATE

So apparently per 64 year old Joe Stanley   of W. Virginia we have been dumping the highly toxic chemical  4-methylcyclohexane methanol for decades into tapped out mines and unlined slurry ponds. With that said he states he has not drank local water sources for years.

So my question is regarding the current and very real threat our water works are doing is why the hell did one of Virginia largest water treatment plants was storing a 48,000 gallon tank of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol? 

What in gods name possessed West Virginia American Water  to store this chemical on there property to begin with?

I do not intend at all to sound like one of those batshit aluminum foil hat wearing conspiracy theorists but how can a business or let alone any competent *responsible adult do something this hair brained unless they were planning on eventually allowing the chemical to leach out? 

It all simply sounds way to convenient the last few years of events like nuclear meltdowns, chemical spills and poisoning of our food sources either at the point of agriculture or in the processing plants
(pesticides/processed food "preservatives","food like products") . It all seems like there is a very real threat to our communities from all links of the government industrial complex chain of command.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_the_earth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_earth