Posted on 03/02/2016 5:57:40 AM PST by george76
The Republican chairman of a congressional panel investigating a 3-million-gallon spill of toxic wastewater from an inactive Colorado gold mine said Tuesday the mine was purposely breached by a government cleanup team.
The assertion by House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop of Utah contradicts claims by the Obama administration that the cleanup team was doing only preparatory work at the Gold King mine.
Once it was breached, wastewater loaded with lead, arsenic and other contaminants fouled downstream rivers in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.
Bishop cited an email in which an Interior Department official said the spill last August occurred when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency team used an excavator to remove a dirt and rock "plug" blocking the mine's entrance.
The plug was holding back pressurized wastewater that had accumulated for years inside the mine north of Durango.
"There was nothing unintentional about EPA's actions with regard to breaching the mine. They fully intended to dig out the plug and breach it," Bishop said
(Excerpt) Read more at gazette.com ...
Tricky Dick, just another non-conservative Republican.
Let’s try another one.
CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR FOR WHICH A PRIVATE ENTITY WOULD BE JAILED AND FINED INTO THE POORHOUSE!
THESE FEDERAL CRIMINALS HAVE PROBABLY BEEN PROMOTED!
MY GOD, BETWEEN THIS AND HILLARY CLINTON’S EMAILS, THE RULE OF LAW IS DEADER THAN KELSEY’S NUTS!
(YES, I’M SHOUTING!!)
Yeah yeah yeah and the obama misadministration corruption and evil goes unabated by the senators including Cruz and the RUBE who have handed him everything he wants on a golden platter including full funding of PP and $ for his immigration plan to destroy america!
Follow the money.
The problem is not setting a sunset provision into an agency, such that its existence not just funding, must be evaluated and re-authorized on a periodic basis. A built in passive apoptosis mechanism to kill a bureaucratic metastasis.
I love to watch people swim in denial. One more time please, for the people in the back.. What has the EPA done again?
There must be farmland the gov’t wants to take over. Run off the farmers and scoop up the land.
I was thinking the same thing. They have done similar things in other places, such as using controlled flooding to drive farmers and ranchers out of an area.
I believe every word of it.
It was intentional, only an idiot would “accidentally” remove a plug or partial plug knowing full well there’s pressurized contaminated waste water behind it.
There should be indictments over this fiasco.
Job security.
The EPA had the same type * accident * three times in Colorado last year.
“Proof that democrats can corrupt any well meaning agency into a political weapon.”
As, yes, the fall-back excuse for any illegal, unconstitutional, govt-run, cluster-F*: “We meant well”. Damn the costs, trampling of Rights/Liberty, out-come, etc...
That’s the ‘excuse’ coming from FR for the GOP(e)/RNC? Oy, vey!
Yep. Screw there’s no authority for such an agency /s
The EPA - the liberal elites of the EPA - lied? OMG, how can that be?
/s
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Finally figured that out, did he?
Well good for him, for at least saying so, rather than covering it up as usual.
If Gowdy or Issa were in charge of that panel, five years from now they would still be looking for (non) answers
I am not denying anything. I am stating that the program started by republicans as a way to keep pollution under control has been commandeered by the democrat party into a weapon against businesses.
The purpose was two fold. One was their extortion operation and the other was to satisfy their environmental moonbats.
Do you deny any of that?
Government just can’t leave anything alone.
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