EPA’s Gold King Mine Blowout Was No Accident

/dailycaller ^ | 03/14/2016 | Michael Bastasch and Ethan Barton

[bgill]

It was out four months before that the “accident” was going to happen.

[DoughtyOne]

I don’t think you meant that to be posted to me.

My response would be that I do not know the facts of the case to understand why the spill took place, so I can’t give you a good answer.

Seems to me the EPA had been on-sight though. Most folks seem to think the EPA is the party that blew it.

If someone can provide information that shoots this down, I’m certainly willing to listen.

[CedarDave]

I consider it nasty but not in the league of Exxon Valdez, not by a long shot. The river cleansed itself fairly quickly; the metals, once separated from the acid mine water, became attached and bound to many of the fine grained silt and clay particles which were deposited down river. They will remain bound to those particles unless the river becomes acidic, not likely in the arid west. That is why continued acid mine drainage in humid areas is so dangerous - the metals are in solution and remain so. A one time event in an arid environment has many fewer long term consequences.

BTW, do you know where the greatest accidental radiological disaster in the US occurred? See this link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Rock_uranium_mill_spill

[shotgun]

The road to hell is paved with good intentions...

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[Gen.Blather]

“Great point(s).

You should expand that to a whole article.
“

Thank you. I would dearly love to write an article on the subject. But several years ago I got Obama’d out of a job. Today I am working weeks at a time for seven days straight. I am only off today because I desperately needed to catch up with things that are going to cost me money and penalties if not done soon. Thanks to Obama, I have no retirement and no prospect at my age of recovering the highly compensated job I had, which allowed me to have health care, a retirement plan, and weekends off.

[RedStateRocker]

I thought I was replying to the original post, sorry.

I am curious, though.

No matter how incompetent (or malign) the EPA, shouldn’t the person who owns and/or created the mess bear the main responsibility? If I had a few barrels of toxic sludge on my property without a permit and in contravention of any laws, and the authorities took some action that released it I would be the one responsible.

[zzwhale]

ALL PART OF AGENDA 21
poison the water and people will leave
part of the federal land grab

[DoughtyOne]

I think the question is, could the EPA have cleaned the site up without this spill?

I haven’t heard a single entity defending the EPA on this, and that includes the EPA. I think I remember reading where it apologized for the disaster.

[drypowder]

ask Tyson Foods what happens when a private entity pollutes a river and the owners of Tyson and the Clintons are close friends

[SaraJohnson]

The environmental extremists want drinking water shortages. They blame humans for warming and ruining their globe and they want people dead.

[Fireone]

There is quite a legal difference between accident and incident.
Accident infers that someone is at fault.
Incident only indicates that something happened.

[driftdiver]

From what I’ve read they were told it would happen if they continued to do their drilling.

Their own consultant told them it would happen.

So they knew the water would be released but did it anyway. Not a blunder. Not an accident. Intentional

[dfwgator]

"Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by Dickless here."

[driftdiver]

Because the epa took the action that caused the spill. Not the mine owner.

[boop]

I've read the article, and the replies here, but I don't understand just WHAT the EPA was doing there in the first place.

A "study" of the mine's contents?

What were they looking for?

Was there an imminent danger that needed to be addressed?

[oldbrowser]

The agency needs to be placed under a court ordered monitor for as long as it takes to return it to its intended functions.

Clean out all of the political operatives and environmental loons.

[csivils]

That may be the legal definitions, but in health/safety/environmental prevention the word “incident” indicates a loss event without designation of what (or who) the root cause was. The process to capture what happened is called “first report of incident”, the investigation is often referred to as an incident investigation. The process at many companies is called II&R (Incident investigation and reporting). OSHA requires companies to track recordable injuries and use them to calculate TRIR (Total Recordable Incident Rate).

[driftdiver]

From what I’ve read the water had built up. Everyone knew that. The mine owner request permission to drill and mitigate the water. The epa instead sent in their own contractors and released the water.

[Squantos]

EPA MUST BE DISBANDED ..... my opinion.