Posted on 08/10/2015 10:34:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Anger was mounting Monday at the federal Environmental Protection Agency over the massive spill of millions of gallons of toxic sludge from a Colorado gold mine that has already fouled three major waterways and may be three times bigger than originally reported.
An 80-mile length of mustard-colored water -- laden with arsenic, lead, copper, aluminum and cadmium -- is working its way south toward New Mexico and Utah, following Wednesday's accidental release from the Gold King Mine, near Durango, when an EPA cleanup crew destabilized a dam of loose rock lodged in the mine. The crew was supposed to pump out and decontaminate the sludge, but instead released it into tiny Cement Creek. From there, it flowed into the Animas River and made its way into larger tributaries, including the San Juan and Colorado rivers.
"They are not going to get away with this," said Russell Begaye, president of the Navajo Nation, which intends to sue the EPA.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Good luck with the lawsuit.
EPA is too busy fighting global warming to worry about something like this.
And the liberal viewpoint on this? Here’s a comment on a Yahoo article about the spill … “I’m a liberal and it’s clear the EPA was bought out by the mining company doing the illegal disposal for them so the mining company doesn’t have to foot the bill for proper disposal. The EPA is bought out.”
And there you have it … it’s the mining company’s fault. o.O
Yeah, right, of course they will get away with it, and you are going to pay for it.
Trump needs to get in front of this, that will go a long way towards repairing the damage from the last few days.
But, EPA? Crickets.
Colorado mine spill 3 times larger than believed, feds say
http://www.beloitdailynews.com/news/national/epa-colorado-mine-waste-spill-larger-than-first-reported/article_d164c4f5-a374-5083-a3de-f481f27e1dd8.html
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency used better measurements to find that 3 million gallons of wastewater laced with heavy metals, including lead and arsenic, spilled from the Gold King Mine and turned the Animas River a mustard yellow last week. The agency initially estimated 1 million gallons escaped.
Answering machine at EPA:
“We’re sorry that we cannot help you with any actual environmental problems. All our manpower, energy, and funding has gone to promote the Climate Change Hoax.
However, your message is entirely unimportant to us and if you’d like to leave a message after the sound of the raspberry, we will be certain to ignore it and do as we please.
P.S. Stop driving your car to work and walk the few dozen miles. Don’t you care about the planet? What if we run out of fossil fuels and are not able to fly around the country telling you how harmful fossil fuels are?!
HELLO!!!!
Your hypocritical friends at the EPA.
You’re here to serve.”
One wonders whether it was done on purpose.
So according to this knucklehead the EPA was doing an illegal disposal but that’s OK because it’s the EPA.
The EPA got some ‘splainin’ to do!
They most likely will get away with it
I’m probably not the first to notice this, but there’s an Easter Island-like face on that rocky island in the middle of the river.
-FAIL-
ABSOLUTELY CORRECT!!!! If it had been BP the MSM would be screaming their heads off!!!!! EPA CRICKETS!!!!!!!
Wasn’t the mine shut down decades ago?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.