Did The EPA Intentionally Poison Animas River To Secure SuperFund Money?

Zerohedge ^ | August 12, 2015 | Tyler Durden

[Former Proud Canadian]

A week before The EPA disastrously leaked millions of gallons of toxic waste into The Animas River in Colorado, this letter to the editor was published in The Silverton Standard & The Miner local newspaper, authored by a retired geologist detailing verbatim, how EPA would foul the Animas River on purpose in order to secure superfund money...

[Former Proud Canadian]

The federal government is simply too big. There are too many untouchable bureaucrats who believe they are above the law and can do anything they want.

This can end one of two ways and one of those ways is not pretty.

[Old Sarge]

ALWAYS follow the money.

Cui Bono.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Did they do it on purpose? More than likely. Obutt and his puppet masters want mining shut down.

[Hojczyk]

the FEDS are nothing but a RICO racket…EPA thas 17,000 employees doing what….killing the country one rule at a time..

[CPT Clay]

Fits Obama’s MO

[Black Agnes]

Those responsible should have to swim in and drink that river water.

[cld51860]

Redistribution of wealth takes many forms.

[Nep Nep]

I believe that Obama’s goons would do something like this even if there were no money on the line.

Just look at what they did with the VA.

[urbanpovertylawcenter]

Redistribution of health accomplished with Obutthocare

[laplata]

ping

[kaila]

I looked at the back issues of this newspaper, there is no July 30 issue, like this article states this letter to the editor came from. There is no link to the actual newspaper article in Zero Hedge. If you wanted to prove that this letter existed, a link should have been there. I am skeptical of this, I think it is fake.
If it is not a fake, then someone please post the actual link.

[hal ogen]

The government is infested with lefty LIB malignancies who will never be fired. They are worse than worthless.

[wtd]

8/12/ WTNH

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, himself a former geologist, visited a contaminated stretch of river Tuesday and said he hopes a “silver lining” to the disaster will be a more aggressive state and federal effort to deal with mining’s “legacy of pollution” across the West.

[tacticalogic]

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”

[Vince Ferrer]

Durango is a bit on the democrat side, along with the Navajo and northern New Mexico. One of the reasons is the environmentalist vote. We should be screaming from the mountaintops that the EPA did this.

[FreedomOfExpression]

I looked at the back issues of this newspaper, there is no July 30 issue, like this article states this letter to the editor came from. There is no link to the actual newspaper article in Zero Hedge.

The latest back issue on their website is Feb. 12, 2015. It seems obvious to me that this is done to keep people from reading the newspaper online instead of buying it.
Perhaps more recent articles can be accessed by having a subscription.
If not, the printed version may the the only way to see the letter to the editor, at least until later in the year when the July issues are available electronically.

[RightlySo]

Link to scan/photo of newspaper:

http://stashpit.com/upload/big/2015/08/12/55cad8f0789b6.jpg

AND...

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2a4ac681935fb990e43310ea2d1536d55afc2b40bd7765c284bd18b726637e7a.jpg

[Sacajaweau]

My gut tells me that it was sabotage. Someone had a plan. The bad guy mightnot actually be the doer of the deed....but simply an antagonist.

[FreedomOfExpression]

The first sentence of my comment above is a quote. I don’t know what happened to the formatting so that it isn’t italicized.

[Lazamataz]

PING