Posted on 08/09/2015 7:00:02 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
So who is paying the billions in fines and going to prison?
So who is paying the billions in fines and going to prison?
That only happens to conservatives.
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?””
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 ...
It’ll be interesting when this spill is used as a reason for more regulation.
It was just an accident no harm no foul move along keep moving nothing to see here ...
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
Farmington, NM population 45,000
shut off intakes of river water
Providing water for 60,000 + people $$$$$$$
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.
Its the heavy metals that will be of most concern..
Thank goodness its not flammable..
How do you keep the deer, elk and other wild animals from drinking the water along a 75 mile stretch of river?
I wonder how much gold is in it.
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.
Gov’t sign says a mine is at fault. Bass turds.
Hi,
I’m from the gub mint,
And I’m here to help.
bump
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