[Lurker]

So who is paying the billions in fines and going to prison?

[RandallFlagg]

I’m cheesing off people on Facebook with the statement of, “The EPA caused this spill with your tax dollars. If they issue themselves a fine (*chuckle*), they’ll PAY it with your tax dollars, too. Tired of Big Government yet?””

[NormsRevenge]

Yellow mine waste water from the Gold King Mine is seen in San Juan County, Colorado, in this picture released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) taken August 7, 2015. A contaminated plume of waste water accidentally released from a Colorado gold mine by U.S. environmental agency workers has spread downstream and reached northern New Mexico, officials said on Saturday. Picture taken August 7, 2015. REUTERS/EPA/Handout ...

[moehoward]

It’ll be interesting when this spill is used as a reason for more regulation.

[NormsRevenge]

[Ken522]

As workers excavated loose debris at the site, they inadvertently breached the wall of a mine tunnel, unleashing a flow ...

It was just an accident no harm no foul move along keep moving nothing to see here ...

[NormsRevenge]

Yellow mine waste water is seen at the entrance to the Gold King Mine in San Juan County, Colorado, in this picture released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) taken August 5, 2015. A contaminated plume of waste water accidentally released from a Colorado gold mine by U.S. environmental agency workers has spread downstream and reached northern New Mexico, officials said on Saturday. REUTERS/EPA/Handout

[TYVets]

Durango, Colorado population 17,000

Farmington, NM population 45,000

shut off intakes of river water

Providing water for 60,000 + people $$$$$$$

[JimSEA]

The EPA needs to take responsibility for this. That said, it doesn’t seem to me to be the great catastrophe it’s being set up as.

[TYVets]

How do you keep the deer, elk and other wild animals from drinking the water along a 75 mile stretch of river?

[FR_addict]

I wonder how much gold is in it.

[headstamp 2]

These are the same EPA morons that insisted on digging and dredging the Hudson river sediment to roil up the PCBs that had since become completely covered with sediment thus dropping PCB levels to practically nothing.

Now they have stirred it all up again.

[Joe Boucher]

Hi,
I’m from the gub mint,
And I’m here to help.

[Rome2000]

And here I thought the EPA just sat behind desks.

They apparently have gone full retard

They have no business or qualifications to be diverting anything.

Obviously

[donna]

Sounds like planned terrorism.

[jazusamo]

It’d be very interesting to know how many pounds of dynamite caused this “accident” and how many more millions of gallons of toxic waste will be released above the 1 million gallons the EPA first reported.

I doubt we’ll be getting those answers from these pathetic bureaucrats in this criminal agency.

[dfwgator]

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

but there has been no immediate evidence of harm to human health, livestock or wildlife, EPA officials told reporters

Kinda reminds me of the low-key media response to the BP oil spill.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Environmental Protection Agency workers

Anyone else confused by this terminology?