Posted on 08/11/2015 4:47:32 PM PDT by bestintxas
By any standard, the catastrophe produced by the EPA on the Animas River is tremendous.
...since Wednesday, the Animas has been grievously polluted with toxic water spilled from one of the many abandoned mines that pockmark the region — a spill for which the Environmental Protection Agency has claimed responsibility, saying it accidentally breached a store of chemical-laced water.
On Sunday, anger over the spill boiled over after the agency announced that the amount of toxic water released was three times what was previously stated — more than three million gallons rather than one million — and that officials were still unsure if there was a health threat to humans or animals.
"Unsure"? Of "chemical-laced water" probably filled with heavy metals? I'm sure!
What should be done about this? The EPA is supposed to regulate the cleanliness of our waters, but in one stroke they have become the greatest polluter of the very water they are charged to protect.
That's why I think the EPA should be regulated by oil companies, who, by comparison, have almost as good a record of protecting the environment compared to the EPA. You don't see millions of gallons of oil regularly released into the rivers in North Dakota or Texas, do you?
To start with, oil companies should regulate pollution produced by the EPA, assessing a tax for each gallon of sludge the EPA releases due to its "regulatory activities." The tax should be high enough to discourage the EPA from releasing millions of gallons of toxic chemicals into the environment. In fact, the tax should be high enough to drive the EPA out of the investigation business.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Where are they? Not again (/face palm)?
So, what’s next for the Environmental Pollution Agency?
Use that BP gillion $ fine to fix the Colorado river.
Oops, it’s gone????
Government of the people by the people.
Corporations have been decided to be people.
EPA is an unelected entity requiring corporations to do things.
If corporations together put an unelected body in place to require unelected bodies like the EPA to do things then what is the difference?
Make the case and appeal up to SCOTUS.
The E.P.A. and its sister agencies in D.C. need to be shut down asap along with the I.R.S. and the N.E.A., all of them worthless tax eating hogs rob and polute the nation and the school childrens minds while stealing tax funds and living very high off the hog. D.C. is a cesspool of corruption, thives, and liars.
Entirely possible if Congress would grow a spine;
Solicit top mining engineers to review EPA actions at the site and name names. Probably turns out the EPA boss at the scene was an “Environmental Scientist” with a degree in sociology or some such.
The EPA needs to set up a 20 billion dollar environmental and economic damage fund. Citizens, farmers, and businesses should be able to estimate their damage amounts and have them rubber stamped by “old what-his-face” that gets appointed to give away other people’s money without proof. The EPA Director and all project managers and personnel related to the project should be allowed to plea bargain their jail time down to 5-10 years and $100,000 fines as any other civilian violator would be allowed.
Maybe. Maybe a team of mercenaries would help, too.
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