EPA confirms Colorado mine spill contains heavy metals

DENVER (AP) — The mustard-colored muck that spilled from a Colorado mine and surged into a river contains heavy metals including lead and arsenic, federal environmental officials confirmed Friday, but they didn't immediately discuss amounts in the water or health risks.

The spill also contained cadmium, aluminum, copper and calcium, the Environmental Protection Agency said. During a public meeting in Durango, EPA Regional Director Shaun McGrath did not mention whether the elements posed a health hazard but said local authorities were right to close the Animas River to human activities.

At least two of the heavy metals can be lethal for humans in long-term exposure. Arsenic at high levels can cause blindness, paralysis and cancer. Lead poisoning can create muscle and vision problems for adults, harm development in fetuses, and lead to kidney disease, developmental problems and sometimes death in children, the agency said.

These meddlesome Administrative State outlaws need to learn the active voice again. They will first need to accept their dismal record as we see it. We -some of whom are scientists ourselves- do not have to accept their official “secret sciences.” There is blatant corruption inside that seething lying bunch of Obama appointees, and they’ve got undisclosed back channel ties to the same not for profit organizations who want to wipe out ALL coal energy in America. The entire hard left syndicate is highly corrupt and it needs to be exposed as illegal, political gangsterism.

It is telling that none of the “professional” reporters saw fit to tell the public what government agency was responsible for uncapping that pit. If it was not tampered with by the EPA “experts,” then there would have not been the massive spill. Pretty soon the “contractors” will take the fall instead, but they better testify against the “experts” as whistle blowers instead because we’re not going to let this horrible “mistake” be lost in the passive voice. Who cares about the Nederland CO. paint thinner incident any longer, we don’t need these over educated clowns meddling in our lives what so ever!

That massive spill will destroy much more than the river and those responsible will go back to their very comfortable homes to leave the rest of us to make do with wrecked lives. Human beings are an abstraction to these clowns. The wackos will blame the mine owner ignoring the fact that it was contained prior to the meddling. They’ll not even consider the human suffering that will result because of their political gangsterism.

We want the exact NAMES of the individuals inside the EPA who sought to meddle with the tap and we want the exact “secret” science-teriffic reason they broke it open to inspect? You know well enough that Colorado is under attack by these insane enviro-wacko appointees from the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and Wildlife service officials, who live anonymous comfortable lives in Denver, only because they’ll never be thrown out of government work by their damned mistakes.

Or, given the little war on Colorado who’s to believe this incident wasn’t part of a larger effort to discredit private mining companies? The rural public suffers this new administrative state too easily; and by gosh, this MASSIVE spill serves as the prime example why this remote technocracy must be checked!

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