Fertilizer Dump Spoils Intel's Pure Water

An anonymous reader writes "Intel had to shut down part of its Irish plant for a while because of the extreme cold and the fact the local council polluted the water supply with fertilizer. Apparently it got down to -12 degrees C at the Intel plant in Leixlip, County Kildare. But to make matters worse, the local council ran out of rock salt to grit the roads and opted for fertilizer instead. There were fears that ammonia and nitrates in the fertilizer might have contaminated the local water supply. The problem for the chipmaker is that it needs extremely pure water for its manufacturing processes."

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Frosty

[Anonymous Coward]

Frosty piss in my chips?

Re:What a fucked up move

[AHuxley]

Direct family deaths due to icy roads or a few random cancer hotspots?
Taxing you and then not clearing the roads is bad and cannot be hidden.
Fertilisers in the water can be dumbed down as a pinko communist atheist conspiracy over a few decades, then the clusters drop off.