Posted on 08/11/2015 5:18:40 PM PDT by Nachum
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy said Tuesday that the EPA is “taking responsibility” following the inadvertent release by an EPA cleanup team of millions of gallons of toxic chemicals from an abandoned gold mine in Colorado that flooded into the Animas and San Juan River valleys. A reporter pointed out to McCarthy that if this damage had been done by a “private polluter,” a public apology would have already been issued by the CEO or other leadership speaking for the offender.
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News Flash: BP Expresses Deep and Profound Regret for the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
US to refund all fines and charges.
MSM to take back all of the nasty things they said.
These maggots thing sorry fixes everything. I hate them.
After banning over the counter asthma inhalers, you can be sure the EPA’s main mission has nothing to do with the environment.
This is worse than Katrina, the genie is out of the bottle.
The gov is incompetent. Employment for the marginal. Those who can do, the others teach or work in the gov.
Re “Great Job Gina, where’ the resignation”?
In the same place as Hillary’s missing emails, Lois Lerner’s missing emails, and all those missing or destroyed hard-drives. It is called Judge Crater’s house.
Has anyone heard a peep from the Sierra Club, the National Wildlife Association, the Nature Conservancy, or any other rabid environmental group?
Those hypocrites only care about the earth and its creatures if they can sue some private landowner so that he loses his property. When the lousy EPA causes massive destruction of three river systems killing everything in them by their negligence and bureaucratic stupidity, they are mute. Clearly, they love government more than nature.
Wish I could hat tip the FReeper that offered this... it was the best idea I have heard...
Set aside funds from next year's EPA budget that covers all costs of cleanup and remediation... with no increase in the budget. Not enough funding to cover that program with other ones? Tough, start laying off employees, cancel all travel, sell off the fleet of new enforcement vehicles and all the hollow point "training" ammo, and turn off the power to EPA office buildings. Break the EPA. This is how you do it... but Boehner and McConnell will do NOTHING.
If this had been BP or Exxon? The EPA has probably sent more pollution into the environment than all the coal plants for generations.
But no oil company would be allowed to issue this and have it mean antyhing
how much would a company have to pay if this happened?
why isn’t the EPA being sued / shut down / forced to pay?
But yet the MSM is blaming the operators.
Reminds me of the time the West Virginia chemical company spilled its leakage or overflow into the river and that spread into two more rivers and it was discovered Al Gore had a financial stake in it and it happened during the presidential campaign season interlude of crinton/gore I and crinton/gore II and people were talking about the negative impact it would have on them. Remember that one? No? Oh, yeah, that’s right... these are the democrats. Bad things go away and records are expunged.
She's taking "responsibility," not blame.
They should all be forced to drink from the water until it’s clean in the river.
She should be made to sing the Calvin and Hobbes `I’m Very Very Sorry’ song.
Why haven’t any of the affected States filed CRIMINAL CHARGES against all the Supervisors and Managers that allowed this “Violation” of the “Clean Water Act”??
“The defendant in this case conducted a demolition project which released a significant amount of water contaminated with dust and debris directly into the Chadakoin River, endangering public health and the environment,”
from the EPA WEBSITE found here:
http://www2.epa.gov/enforcement/criminal-press-releases-2014
In all fairness, it appears they were trying to access an unstable, abandoned mine so they could safely pump out all of this goodness. The trouble is that unstable abandoned mines are — unstable.
Abandoned mines are deathtraps. Even experienced miners will only enter them an inch at a time. Poisonous and explosive gases, ceiling and wall and floor collapses, hidden shafts, unexpected water, toxic waste all over the place, unexploded dynamite, weakened support members, etc. It is actually a *good* sign to see critters like spiders and snakes, because nothing has killed them.
For once, I will say that it was probably not the EPA’s fault. Whatever happened would likely have happened anyway, sooner rather than later.
the EPA is “taking responsibility”
The EPA is full of ****.
“You’re doing a heckuva job, Genie.”
Like they blamed the Ghostbusters when "Dickless" shut down the containment unit.
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