Barack Obama doesn't care about Native Americans.
Posted on 09/06/2015 2:19:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Sunday the Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President released a statement to the public in regards to FEMA and the EPA's refusal for assistance in cleaning up the toxic water in the San Jaun River.
"We are extremely frustrated with the news that both FEMA and the U.S. EPA have declined our urgent requests to continue assistance to the Navajo Nation. U.S. EPA caused this entire disaster, they have harmed the people, the water and the land. I appreciated the fact U.S. EPA took responsibility and I was hoping for the U.S. EPA to prove to the Navajo Nation they are willing to hold themselves accountable. This action clearly shows otherwise. For years, we have consistently been at the receiving end of toxic spills and contamination with no adequate relief as the United States Government and Private Companies became wealthy off of the natural resources of the Navajo Nation.
This is not the end but the beginning as I will continue to fight for my people."
Begaye asked for aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency in regards to the Environmental Protection Agency’s toxic spill in the Animas River.
An EPA crew accidently released 3 million gallons of orange waste water into the Animas River on Aug. 5 from a mine near Silverton Colorado.
The orange sludge made its way to New Mexico’s San Juan River causing the Navajo Nation to shut off water to residential and agricultural recipients.
Barack Obama doesn't care about Native Americans.
‘bath house barry’ doesn’t care about anything but vacations and golf....
End.Of.Subject.
There wasn’t anything accidental about the spill.
The Navajo Nation is critical of the EPA. The EPA leadership was appointed by Obama, and is controlled by Obama. Therefore, The Navajo Nation is being critical of Obama.
But I am told by by the media that any criticism of Obama is racist. Therefore, I must conclude that the Navajo nation is racist.
What is the motivate for causing so much damage? Do you believe it was terrorism?
“There wasn’t anything accidental about the spill.”
Whether it was or wasn’t the EPA needs to clean it up. I hope the Navajos sue the bastards!
Wouldn’t you come to that decision? I did...
Why would the EPA be doing there? They haven’t been there for years and years, so why now? What was their purpose of being there?
Who told them to go there? What were they looking for? The gold has long been gone, so that’s not the reason, just what is the reason?
looks like they'll have to sue if they want any help... every last penny spent helping those affected by this gooberment sized screw up should come DIRECTLY out of the EPA budget!!!
This a War on Native Americans using Genocide
by chemical weapons of mass destruction.
Will the drunk, whoring, self-serving,
lying, treasonous EXEMPT GOP speak up?
Will the flack paid, White Mosque-tethered, MSM discuss it?
NOT a chance.
Mr. Trump, and Gov. Palin, will.
The EPA was needing money, so they figured that the Gold King just might be a Super Fund site, given a nudge. They went to investigate, ham-handed, knowing that there was a great possibility that this spill would happen. Knowing, as well, that since they are the government, they wouldn’t be held liable, AND that they might possibly get a SuperFund site out of it.
voila’
The Indian Nation can sue the U.S. Government, not saying much good it would do, but if I were in the Indian Nation that’s what I would do, and I would keep it there until hell freezes over, probably that would happen to...
Classic! look at those two fools!
Time to go on the warpath, Kemosabe!
At the very least it was criminal negligence. The EPA knew of the potential for this to occur. They had been told in official reports.
Why? More budget monet to clean it up. Maybe to force people to move out of the region after their water supply was ruined.
EPA supervisor Hays Griswold, who was at the scene of the blowout Aug. 5, told The Denver Post in an interview this month the plan in place “couldn’t have worked.” He said conditions in the mine were worse than anticipated.
“Nobody expected (the acid water backed up in the mine) to be that high,” he said.
Griswold and his crew were using a backhoe to investigate the area near the Gold King’s portal when the blowout happened.
“All that was holding it back was the dirt. The dirt just wasn’t going to hold,” Griswold said.
The EPA redacted cost estimates for the work from Environmental Restoration’s contracts released Friday, covering up figures with a black mark. The agency says the costs were redacted because it is “confidential business information.”
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_28685398/gold-king-mine-epa-was-told-danger-blowout
The EPA wanted a Superfund for a long time. Now they’ll get it. Nobody will be fired. I’ve seen how they do this. The agencies create the crisis and the fix is that they have job security forever. I fought the fight with the US Fish and Wildlife Service. 40,000 fish died. And they did it on purpose. My side won because we would not let go of it. Most do.
Except for the day the Muslim nut shot our soldiers in Ft. Hood. He has a press conference later that day after meeting with them, gave shout outs to people, and only then did he briefly mention the shooting. I was horrified at his behavior that day.
They have to justify their ever-growing existence.
I agree with your opinion of what really happened.
I live in the Durango/Ignacio area, have for over 20 years...and I thought at the very beginning the same as you do now.
FMCDH(BITS)
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