EXCLUSIVE – Geologist Who Predicted EPA Spill: ‘They Just Didn’t Think’

Big Government ^ | 8/13/15 | Michael Patrick Leahy

[Jim Robinson]

Defund the EPA! Fire the entire lot!

[Sacajaweau]

Like I said.... sabotaqe ...

[headsonpikes]

“It was incompetent and stupid for them to go up to that existing plug and try to remove it without knowing how much water was upstream and behind it and what the hydrostatic pressure was,” Taylor says.

This is why we yield so much authority to the government, so that stupid and incompetent people can find employment.

[Obadiah]

It’s a Democrat administration so it’s not really that big of a deal.

[Personal Responsibility]

Taylor: soon to be randomly audited by the IRS

[4yearlurker]

Affirmative Action hired Bureaucrats....would could go wrong.

[laplata]

I live along the Animas River in Durango and the liberals/tree huggers here are going crazy. Their god, Big Government has betrayed them and they don’t know what to do.

[Fungi]

And the “Energy” dept, and the “Education” dept, and the “Housing and Urban Affairs” dept, and the “Commerce” dept, and the “Bureau of Indian affairs,” and the “Federal Reserve” while you’re at it. These agencies exist to further their own existence and benefit at the expense of the common man; this is tyranny, pure and simple.

[jazusamo]

More from Dave Taylor, Ping.

The EPA idiots won’t talk to him.

[TChad]

It is because of the bad attitude of the federal government bureaucrats, and especially those at EPA, that throughout his career, Taylor avoided undertaking projects for them. “Whenever I worked for them, I always dreaded it because they have such a know-it-all attitude. That’s how they got in trouble on this deal. They just didn’t think,” Taylor says.

And the sun sets in the west.

[Dacula]

I apologize, but they get the government they deserve.

Just like us!

[Pontiac]

Gold King Ping

[ClearCase_guy]

One of my favorite memories from "Atlas Shrugged" is when the electric locomotive (only one around at the time) isn't in running condition. Important Washington VIP Kip Chalmers needs to get to an important meeting on the other side of the Rocky Mountains. To get there, he needs the train to go through an extremely long tunnel.

The railroad staff patiently explain that taking a coal-burning locomotive through a 20-mile-long tunnel is a suicide mission.

Chalmers basically pulls a "Do you know who am I????" on them and a crew of drunks is found to drive the train. Everyone dies. The train stops halfway through the tunnel.

And an Army munitions train coming the other way on the tracks collides with it a few hours later and destroys the entire 20-mile tunnel -- the only path through the Rocky Mountains that was left in the country.

That's Washington. The Big Shots know how smart and important they are -- how come you don't??

[laplata]

No apology needed.

You’re right. I hope they feel the pain because they deserve it.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[El Cid]

Re 14: I feel sorry for the drunks.

[laplata]

ping

[Nuc 1.1]

When you say liberals/tree huggars I suggest they have already gone crazy. ;D)

[laplata]

please see my tagline