Are The Chickens Coming Home To Roost?

By Diego Garcia III | Editor of The Brownsville Beacon

 For the handful of you who have read through my blog, I don't need to repeat myself. You know what I think about SpaceX, and for those of you who don't frequent my blog, you can scroll through and find my other article on the swindling pseudo-explorers. 

 Now, in addition to lying to Brownsville by failing to deliver on their promises of several high-paying jobs for Brownsvillians, the company suffered a catastrophic failure of one of their MK-1 rocket ship prototypes at their Boca Chica site. Clouds of chemicals shot high into the sky as the rocket broke apart. I will not pretend to play rocket scientist, nor will I plagiarize other articles that have been written. If you want a more journalistic breakdown, I welcome you to visit The Brownsville Herald's site for a professionally written article. If you want a way better written article, I welcome you to visit Juan Montoya's El Rrun Rrun for an article that explains all the nuts and bolts of the explosion.

 The bottom line is chemicals from a failed fuel attempt have been sprayed throughout the Boca Chica wetlands and have the possibility of impacting the entire Boca Chica Beach area including Boca Chica Village (Kopernik Shores) for an indefinite amount of time.

 The worst part of this story is the reaction from the spokespeople over at the SpaceX facility. The Herald article states, "'The purpose of today’s test was to pressurize systems to the max, so the outcome was not completely unexpected,' a spokesperson for SpaceX told The Verge. 'There were no injuries, nor is this a serious setback.'" The outcome wasn't completely unexpected. The company knew there was a possibility toxic chemicals could be sprayed around the area.

 This is unconscionable. This company has played with Brownsville and her economy, and now they are causing issues with the environment. We have given this company millions of dollars in tax breaks so they could set up their launch facility only to have them break their promises to the community over and over. Now we have to worry about them destroying the Boca Chica ecosystem.

 Brownsville has paid too high a price for SpaceX to come to town. I can only hope we start seeing this company for what it really is rather than what we all wanted it to be.

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