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Eric Roesch
Personal blog · blog.esghound.combusinessscience
Eric Roesch writes ESG Hound, a personal blog at blog.esghound.com about business and science. Since 2023, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “SpaceX's Texas Rocket Is Going to Cause a Lot More Damage Than Anyone Thinks”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Eric Roesch's Substack posts on SpaceX's environmental problems at Boca Chica, including clean water and stormwater violations and the NEPA environmental assessment used for its launch site approval.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sniffing out the latest in corporate compliance and sustainability.
Most-linked posts?
- SpaceX's Texas Rocket Is Going to Cause a Lot More Damage Than Anyone Thinks3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-16
- “SpaceX's Texas Rocket Caused a Big Mess – What's Next?”3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-27
What Hacker News says?
https://blog.esghound.com/p/spacex-violates-the-clean-water-... Note that this is separate from the stormwater issue that people will try to misdirect about
Comment linking /p/spacex-violates-the-clean-water-act
on “US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication”Submitted Photos from the SpaceX Debris Field as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.esghound.com/p/elon-musk-really-hates-getting-p...
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on “SpaceX update regarding Starship FAA flight approval”Submitted SpaceX's Texas Rocket Caused a Big Mess – What's Next? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLets not forget they are repeat offenders for the illegal dumping in California and Texas. https://blog.esghound.com/p/spacex-violated-the-clean-water-... https://www.expressnews.com/opinion/editorial/article/spacex...
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on “Texan construction workers put a rocket up Team SpaceX over 'unpaid bills'”Submitted “SpaceX's Texas Rocket Caused a Big Mess – What's Next?” as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis submission was flagged on HN but it was pointed out. > In addition to the siting and sizing of the pad, SpaceX does not have a flame trench, nor do they have a water deluge system used to suppress heat and sound energy from any launches, as the Army Corps of Engineering permitting required to add these civil engineering systems is itself a multi-year process. > No large rocket complex on the planet: not in Russ…
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on “SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Project at the Boca Chica Launch Site”Submitted SpaceX's Texas Rocket Is Going to Cause a Lot More Damage Than Anyone Thinks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhmm... So, ethics panels are not needed? What is a few lives in ways of progress? FAA and spaceX circumvented existing process - there was a larger article that this is going to be an ecological disaster before the launch that was posted here [0]. You are willing to sacrifice what is in your hand now for an nebulous future promise and that seems to be equally faulty bias on the other side. Almost all fraud happens w…
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on “Why Few Organizations Adopt Systems Thinking”maybe but the water deluge system seems to drain directly into protected US waters https://blog.esghound.com/i/135551935/spacexs-permitting-woe...
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on “SpaceX can't launch its giant rocket again until fixes are made, FAA says”Yeah, so they talk about that in the link above. > SpaceX convinced FAA to approve a site that would host launching the Largest Rocket in History under NEPA’s Environmental Assessment (EA) process, which is saved for projects that do not have a “significant impact” to the environment. This action was and is eyebrow-raising, as no major spaceport has ever been authorized under this process, always requiring a full En…
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on “SpaceX grounded after a rocket explosion caused extensive environmental damage”