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.
Try not to laugh too hard:
SIERRA CLUB RESPONDS TO TOXIC SPILL IN ANIMAS RIVER
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Contact:
Trey Pollard, 202-495-3058 or trey.pollard@sierraclub.org
Durango, CO — Approximately 3 million gallons of water contaminated with dangerous metal pollution from an abandoned gold mine has poured into the Animas River as the result of a botched Environmental Protection Agency clean-up effort. The Animas empties into the San Juan River which eventually routes to in Lake Powell.
The E.P.A. had originally estimated the size of the spill to be 1 million gallons, however, that number was revised yesterday to be approximately three million gallons of contaminated water.
In response, Robert Tohe, Sierra Club Organizing Representative in New Mexico Released the following statement:
“Our thoughts are with the families in Colorado and New Mexico who now have to worry about whether their drinking water is clean or their jobs are threatened because of this needless disaster. The Animas River was sadly already contaminated due to the legacy of toxic mining practices. The company that owns this mine has apparently allowed dangerous conditions to fester for years, and the mishandling of clean-up efforts by the EPA have only made a bad situation much worse. As we continue to learn what exactly happened, it’s time that the mine owners be held accountable for creating this toxic mess and we urge the EPA to act quickly to take all the steps necessary to ensure a tragedy like this does not happen again.”