Posted on 08/13/2015 4:18:36 PM PDT by markomalley
Dave Taylor, the retired geologist who predicted the EPA project that caused the 3 million gallon toxic spill into the Animas River in Colorado would fail, tells Breitbart News, “I didn’t really know they were going to fool with the Gold King mine in addition to the Red and Bonita mine.”
In a July 30 letter to the editor of the Silverton Standard, Taylor predicted that the EPA project to plug the Red and Bonita mine would fail “within 7 to 120 days,” and the 500 gallons per minute flow of toxic waste from those mines which the project stopped temporarily would resume again.
Six days later, on August 5, the EPA project caused 3 million gallons of toxic waste to flow into the Animas River.
“The EPA was basically deceptive. They were saying we’re going to plug the Red and Bonita mine with a hydrostatic reinforced concrete plug, then we’re going to see what will happen,” Taylor says in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News.
“The Gold King mine was already plugged by someone else years ago with wood timbers, rocks and mud, and it was exfiltrating an unknown quantity of water, and they decided to remove that old plug so they could see the true quantity of water it was leaking,” according to Taylor.
“That old plug in the Gold King mine was kind of unstable material,” he notes.
“It was incompetent and stupid for them to go up to that existing plug and try to remove it without knowing how much water was upstream and behind it and what the hydrostatic pressure was,” Taylor says.
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“Their god, Big Government has betrayed them and they don’t know what to do.”
How did they know it was the government’s fault?
On MSNBC and NPR the news trailers make it sound like the EPA is coming to the rescue. It never mentions that it was caused by the EPA.
And Hickenlooper defends the EPA and says he would drink the water. Now that really is drinking the orange kool aid.
“Their god, Big Government has betrayed them and they don’t know what to do.”
How did they know it was the government’s fault?
On MSNBC and NPR the news trailers make it sound like the EPA is coming to the rescue. It never mentions that it was caused by the EPA.
And Hickenlooper defends the EPA and says he would drink the water. Now that really is drinking the orange kool aid.
It came out almost right away that the EPA screwed up.
The media is doing damage control and spinning it like a top.
Our local rag, The Durango Herald is always minimizing and covering up Liberal-Progressive screw ups.
Hickenlooper is a big time idiot and environmentalist ass kisser.
“The EPA might be a bad guy in this case but it’s our bad guy and it will continue driving the agenda” is their attitude..
I should have specified that ‘locally’ it was known that the EPA screwed up. It couldn’t be covered up locally.
And there is a picture in the paper of Hickenlooper taking a big drink of river water.
“EXCLUSIVE – Geologist Who Predicted EPA Spill: ‘They Just Didn’t Think’
Hey, they’re Flaming LIBERALS, you can’t make them THINK!”
Worse yet, you can’t fire them.
Thanks for posting/ interesting.
Other than forcing water into fissures of the surrounding rock, I’m not sure why they needed to worry about hydrostatic pressure, if they were just going to pull the existing plug.
Not knowing the volume behind the plug would have been my major concern. After the plug is pulled the pressure all goes to zero and now you have to deal with flow and scour
You’re welcome. It’s fun to watch them squirm.
Note: this topic is from . Thanks markomalley. I'm impressed at the way this Obama disaster was scrubbed from the headlines by the Partisan Media Shills, who also never tried incitement despite the victimizing of various tribes. I guess none of them were fake Vietnam veterans.
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