Owner of Gold King Mine feels victimized by EPA ( Colorado )

Durango Herald ^ | November 29, 2015 | Jonathan Romeo

[george76]

Todd Hennis claims EPA planned mine spill to usher in Superfund.

the Environmental Protection Agency-contracted crew's triggered blowout on his property, effectively turning the Animas River into an orange spectacle. He was speechless and horrified, but not surprised ...

I have been trying to make everybody aware of the dangers posed by the Sunnyside Mine pool for 14 years .. when I saw the pictures, I just felt my life was over. I just thought, Oh God, what did they do?

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Hennis, for his part, has long maintained increased flows from the Gold King Mine are a result of groundwater seeping from the vast, adjacent Sunnyside Mine network after it was plugged, first in 1996.

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Hennis .. claims the federal agency has enforced a complete takeover of his property.

They have been so thoroughly arrogant, incompetent, and frankly criminal in their outlook, that it is kind of like dealing with the mafia

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These thugs just went in and took it over, and then told me we are not going to settle, screw you, we are on your land, and if you do not like it, we will go to federal court because you are not cooperating..

That is the same cooperation the Nazis expected from the people getting off the trains.

Hennis: Spill was intentional.

Almost five months since the spill, he is now convinced the EPA intentionally set off the release...

[Tupelo]

EPA. Thank you Richard Nixon.
The EPA is by far a worse crime against the Constitution and the American people than Watergate.

[Cheerio]

Owner of Gold King Mine feels victimized by EPA ( Colorado )

FEELS?? Shouldn't it more appropriately read "Owner of Gold King Mine IS victimized by EPA ( Colorado )

[george76]

UN Agenda 21 ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)

[george76]

Three EPA caused spills in Colorado in one year. Three times is not accidental.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

So, since the yellow orange waters of the Animas have been diluted with the waters of the San Juan, La Plata, Colorado and Green Rivers how does it look in Lake Powell?

Caught my first fish in the Animas on South Miller street bridge back in 1956 Farmington NM.

[MileHi]

A nice, slow burn to start my week...

[george76]

Apparently, mostly diluted before it reached Lake Powell. There was extensive water testing along the way.

[george76]

They are here from the government to help you ..

[driftdiver]

Diluted but still contaminated.

Those people using the river for water will have to find a drink elsewhere.

Forget the fishes.

Oh and they’ll have to close access to the rivers and put the river and land under federal control.

[logi_cal869]

Diluted

Poor choice of words. That would be funny if it weren't so inflammatory.

It's the same language used for radiation in the Pacific.

You can't dilute heavy metals or radioactive particles. That's propaganda...

[driftdiver]

hence my post

[ridesthemiles]

Oh and they’ll have to close access to the rivers and put the river and land under federal control.””

ANY creek-river-stream that shows as a BLUE LINE on a map is already under Federal control.

[driftdiver]

Of course, and they are pushing for any type of water.

However, this type of federal control means people won’t be allowed to even go there. For their own safety of course.

[frithguild]

[X-spurt]

Watermelon!

[Georgia Girl 2]

The EPA is a worse rogue than the IRS. It should have been shut down and/or reigned in sharply a long time ago. It is now completely out of control.

[CedarDave]

Companion story on the EPA-caused spill.

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[SunkenCiv]

Here's the keyword topics for this past summer's Gold King Mine spill -- an environmental holocaust engineered by the EPA:

• Lovely: The EPA Spill In Colorado Was Completely Preventable
• Interior finds EPA caused mine spill it hoped to avoid
• EPA triggers another toxic spill in Colorado
• EPA triggers another wastewater spill at Colorado superfund site ( Crested Butte )
• Navajo Nation Furious Over Government Inaction Over Animas River Spill
• New Mexico official: EPA kept water data secret after spill
• New Mexico official: EPA kept water data secret after spill
• BUSTED! EPA Violated Endangered Species Law in Animas Spill
• CRY US A CONTAMINATED RIVER: EPA Chief Takes a Beating at Senate Hearings
• Gold King spill leads to state-control discussion ( EPA: Colorado )
• EPA admits never planned for 'worst-case scenario' at site of toxic mine spill(also edited tapes)
• Erin Brockovich Accuses Feds of Lying About Mine Waste Spill
• EPA accused at hearing of doctoring video from Gold King Mine spill
• EPA-fouled Animas River: How to sue gov't agencies and win using SCOTUS ruling
• Colorado coal mine avoids closure over environmental group's green gambit
• Navajo Nation Pres. Releases Statement Regarding FEMA Denying Assistance for Gold King Mine Spill
• Erin Brockovich takes on EPA
• Judge won't halt water rule nationwide
• In Trashing Land, The EPA Has Nothing On The Forest Service
• Anger builds at EPA over radioactive landfill
• EPA says new clean water rules are still in effect even though judge suspended them
• Judge blocks EPA water rule; EPA say they will defy injunction
• Judge rules Obama administration water rule should be halted
• Breaking: Federal court blocks EPA rule on waterways
• Judge blocks Obama EPA rule as federal power grab over state waters
• To Donald Trump: Tell EPA Poisoners "You're Fired
• EPA withholds mine spill documents from Congress
• The details behind that EPA gold mine spill just get worse and worse [They knew it would happen]
• EPA aware of 'blowout' risk at mine that could release tainted wastewater(Environmental Pillage)
• EPA Chief Plans Japan Trip As Congress Demands She Answer For The Toxic Mine Spill
• Another EPA disaster, this time in rural Georgia
• Mine's owner says he tried to keep out EPA but was threatened with fines
• Big Government as the New Terminator
• EPA Incompetence Could Cost Taxpayers Nearly $30 Billion
• Obama's Toxic Environmental Pollution Agency
• EPA Chief Gina McCarthy's Record Shows She's Unfit For Command (understatement)
• 'Get Off Our Land': Navajo Tribe Literally Appear to Chase Sen. John McCain Off Their Reservation
• PFB Reiterates Call for EPA to Withdraw Flawed WOTUS Rule
• Now is the time to act to stop the 'Clean Water Rule'
• EPA Fails to Acknowledge It Coerced Mine Owner to Grant Access
• EPA's Toxic Mega-spill May Have Been Deliberate, Critics Suggest
• Critics of carbon regulations using mine spill to skewer EPA
• EPA's Gross Negligence at Gold King
• Gov. Hickenlooper's big gulp from polluted Animas River slammed by health official
• EPA Contractor Behind Colorado Mine Spill Got $381 Million From Taxpayers
• Congress Accuses EPA Chief Of Lying, Mentions Criminal Prosecution
• EXCLUSIVE -- Geologist Who Predicted EPA Spill: 'They Just Didn't Think'
• EPA Contractor Involved in Colorado Spill Identified as Environmental Restoration
• Wrong, Wrong, WRONG! EPA Chief visits Flyover Country
• Indians say EPA trying to swindle them in mine spill
• Let's Pass a Ban on the EPA's Onshore Operations
• EPA Employees Load Obama, Dems With Dough
• Did The EPA Intentionally Poison Animas River To Secure SuperFund Money?
• Animas, Animals, Animus! (Abolish the EPA suggests Todd Seavey)
• Letter to Editor PREDICTED COLORADO EPA SPILL So EPA Could Secure Superfund Status
• EPA Treats Its Own Environmental Catastrophe As No Big Deal
• EPA Administrator on Toxic Spill: 'I'm Deeply Sorry That This Ever Happened'
• Should oil companies regulate pollution-producing activities of the EPA?
• EPA Causes Massive Hazardous Spill in West
• EPA 'accepting full responsibility' for Colorado river spill
• EPA Chief Apologizes for Toxic Spill Affecting Rivers in Colorado, New Mexico
• EPA won't face fines for polluting rivers with orange muck
• Three Signs the EPA/Army Corps Water Rule is a Disaster
• EPA spill: 'We looked at the river and we cried'
• Navajo Nation declares emergency after Colorado mine spill
• 'They're not going to get away with this': Anger mounts at EPA over mining spill
• EPA spill: 'The magnitude of it, you can't even describe it'
• Wastewater spill from Colorado gold mine triples in volume: EPA
• Will EPA's Clean Power Plan doom Colorado's coal industries?
• N.M. governor bashes EPA for flooding Animas River with orange toxic wastewater
• The EPA is polluting our rivers. Where's the outrage? ( Colorado, NM ..)
• EPA confirms Colorado mine spill contains heavy metals
• Millions of gallons of toxic waste water spilled into river by... the EPA
• Orange Mine Waste Flowing Toward Farmington (EPA Spill Destroying the Environment)

[Smokin' Joe]

That they were out of control was evident long ago, but especially when they gave close to a million acres of Wyoming to the Wind River Tribe. (State boundaries cannot be changed without Congressional approval, for starters.)

Who is the EPA to give private property to a third party and thus change the governmental jurisdiction thereof?

(BTW, that included the town of Pavilion, where the EPA couldn't prove fraccing ruined the already bad water.)