Posted on 08/16/2015 8:03:45 AM PDT by Rusty0604
The Environmental Protection Agency isn’t responding to claims by Todd Hennis, owner of the Gold King mine in Colorado that the agency coerced him to grant access to his property. Once taking over, of course, EPA’s incompetent attempts to remove debris created a massive 3 million gallon toxic waste spill from the mine.
Hennis told the CBS Denver affiliate that unless he allowed the EPA to have access and authority to conduct operations on the site the agency had threatened him with daily fines of $35,000.
“When you’re a small guy and you’re having a $35,000-a-day fine accrue against you, you have to run up the white flag,” Hennis explained.
Breitbart News asked the EPA on Friday to confirm or deny Hennis’s claim, but has received no reply.
It is not clear if Hennis complied with the request based solely on the threat of fines, or if he complied after the agency actually levied at least one day of the $35,000 per day fine.
Using the threat of huge daily fines against individuals and small business owners who lack the financial resources to fight back against such intrusions is nothing new for the EPA.
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Thank God for Brietbart.
I am surprised that the mainstream media isn’t pushing this story more. Given their liberal bent, and their angst about despoiling mother earth and all that, this story seems to fit right into their template of man’s destruction of the planet.
And the fact that this was an EPA clean up job would get us into areas of bureaucracy and governmental incompetence.
But perhaps due to who is president, the media don’t want to push this story??????
BINGO!!!!!
Why do you think that is?
EPA is the white Knight of the Liberal Lefts’ desire to throttle the US into a nirvana of post-industrial, deconstructed Gai bliss.
Yesterday there was an article saying how small the amount of pollutants released was, how it’s going to be diluted by trillions of gallons in Lake Mead and all those heavy metals were nothing to worry about. I was gob smacked to read that considering the hysteria and threats of ruin the EPA throws up over the slightest amount of any discharge by citizens. The sheer magnitude of hypocrisy blew me away. One more reason (of millions) that fed gov thoroughly disgusts me.
That is a very good question. Because it was caused by a gov’t agency and not an evil profit seeking oil company?
The legacy media doesn’t push this specific story b/c the EPA is the culprit.
The stories they are pushing are general “Mining pollutes” stories to gin up opposition to modern civilization.
>>Given their liberal bent, and their angst about despoiling mother earth and all that, this story seems to fit right into their template of man’s destruction of the planet.
Just another example of what happens When Liberal Causes Collide.
They love the planet, but they love the Big Government EPA more.
Just like the Blacks vs Gays issue. The Gays win, so the Black side of the story is a non-story. Nothing to see here folks, move along.
“But perhaps due to who is president, the media don’t want to push this story??????”
If George Bush was president every news segment would start with, “Today, August 16th, the 31’st day of the environmental disaster started by George Bush’s incompetent presidency, up to 40,000 fish have died. Downstream birth defects have already started in suburban America.”
A letter to the editor by Dave Taylor, retired geologist, predicted it will happen a week earlier, and that it was easily avoidable. Instead, the EPA moves forward, destroys the river, and requests more cash. They want Colorado mining hurt, and they don't mind ruining a river to get the job done.
The EPA’s mission is to harm people and to destroy capitalism.
That’s what I’m talking about!!!
The media are not running such stories about this mine clean up disaster. It is so obvious what they are doing, yet the burying of a story doesn’t get a lot of attention.
$35K a day fine if you don’t turn over your property to the EPA? Wow, the EPA is tougher on American businesses than Obama is on the Iranian nuclear weapons people.
The BP spill didn’t involve capitalism and Big Oil.
The MSM/liberal view is that the EPA are the good guys no matter what. In their view, it would be better to shut down as many mines as possible to pre-emptively halt damage, and the EPA is useful for that.
As for government bureaucracy and incompetence, that doesn't register with them either. Liberal statists believe bigger government is better government, and some inefficiencies must be tolerated. Besides, big stupid government is union friendly, and liberals like that too. As icing on that cake, everyone knows that a government job is a secure job.
I actually saw some lib on Facebook say that the fault of the spill should be placed solely on the mine owner, because if the Epa had not had to clean up the evil greedy mine owners property, this would have never happened! So that’s the left’s talking point.
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