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Posted on 08/13/2015 4:18:36 PM PDT by markomalley
Dave Taylor, the retired geologist who predicted the EPA project that caused the 3 million gallon toxic spill into the Animas River in Colorado would fail, tells Breitbart News, “I didn’t really know they were going to fool with the Gold King mine in addition to the Red and Bonita mine.”
In a July 30 letter to the editor of the Silverton Standard, Taylor predicted that the EPA project to plug the Red and Bonita mine would fail “within 7 to 120 days,” and the 500 gallons per minute flow of toxic waste from those mines which the project stopped temporarily would resume again.
Six days later, on August 5, the EPA project caused 3 million gallons of toxic waste to flow into the Animas River.
“The EPA was basically deceptive. They were saying we’re going to plug the Red and Bonita mine with a hydrostatic reinforced concrete plug, then we’re going to see what will happen,” Taylor says in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News.
“The Gold King mine was already plugged by someone else years ago with wood timbers, rocks and mud, and it was exfiltrating an unknown quantity of water, and they decided to remove that old plug so they could see the true quantity of water it was leaking,” according to Taylor.
“That old plug in the Gold King mine was kind of unstable material,” he notes.
“It was incompetent and stupid for them to go up to that existing plug and try to remove it without knowing how much water was upstream and behind it and what the hydrostatic pressure was,” Taylor says.
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Defund the EPA! Fire the entire lot!
“It was incompetent and stupid for them to go up to that existing plug and try to remove it without knowing how much water was upstream and behind it and what the hydrostatic pressure was,” Taylor says.
This is why we yield so much authority to the government, so that stupid and incompetent people can find employment.
It’s a Democrat administration so it’s not really that big of a deal.
Taylor: soon to be randomly audited by the IRS
I live along the Animas River in Durango and the liberals/tree huggers here are going crazy. Their god, Big Government has betrayed them and they don’t know what to do.
And the “Energy” dept, and the “Education” dept, and the “Housing and Urban Affairs” dept, and the “Commerce” dept, and the “Bureau of Indian affairs,” and the “Federal Reserve” while you’re at it. These agencies exist to further their own existence and benefit at the expense of the common man; this is tyranny, pure and simple.
More from Dave Taylor, Ping.
The EPA idiots won’t talk to him.
And the sun sets in the west.
I apologize, but they get the government they deserve.
Just like us!
Gold King Ping
The railroad staff patiently explain that taking a coal-burning locomotive through a 20-mile-long tunnel is a suicide mission.
Chalmers basically pulls a "Do you know who am I????" on them and a crew of drunks is found to drive the train. Everyone dies. The train stops halfway through the tunnel.
And an Army munitions train coming the other way on the tracks collides with it a few hours later and destroys the entire 20-mile tunnel -- the only path through the Rocky Mountains that was left in the country.
That's Washington. The Big Shots know how smart and important they are -- how come you don't??
No apology needed.
You’re right. I hope they feel the pain because they deserve it.
Re 14: I feel sorry for the drunks.
ping
When you say liberals/tree huggars I suggest they have already gone crazy. ;D)
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