“A week before The EPA disastrously leaked millions of gallons of toxic waste into The Animas River in Colorado, this letter to the editor was published in The Silverton Standard & The Miner local newspaper, authored by a retired geologist detailing verbatim, how EPA would foul the Animas River on purpose in order to secure superfund money…”
h/t Ed S.
So now what do the granola munchers/tree huggers think about their beloved EPA now that have contaminated a river? If this happened under a republican president the media sharks would be holding their regular feeding frenzies like they did after Chenys hunting accident or when quyle mispelled potato
“We’re from the government and we’re here to help.”
Which GOP candidate will be the first to demand an FBI investigation of the EPA?
There seems to be no doubt what they did. It looks like a somewhat polluted creek was running out of a mine for 100 years. Then the EPA, in a stroke of brilliance, dammed it up back through the mine until the pressure got to be enough to blow out the dam. Sure looks to be deliberate, deliberate to the point of outsider predictability.
The EPA flooded the mine to flush it clean, and then the mine (natural physics) took over & flushed it’s self into the River system….WOW
The incompetent criminals @ the EPA contaminated our drinking water aquifers with gasoline additives. Nobody was prosecuted
Now they contaminate a whole River System…They dammed better be prosecuted.
The EPA is an agency over it’s head…. Defund & start over
Jail? No, these people should be shot.
Obviously this disaster was fully predictable by competent people, which leaves the EPA guilty of, at a minimum, gross incompetence or neglect.
But I would need more convincing evidence to believe that this was deliberate, given that “gross incompetence or neglect” by the EPA is entirely plausible, and given that such nefarious scheming is more common to Hollywood movies than the real world.
Malice over incompetence
Something similar happened in BC last year when after an engineer (consultant?) working for the Mount Polley mine warned regulators that a release of relatively benign water from an over-loaded tailings pond was essential to prevent failure. The regulator dragged his or her feet and voila, the entire pond failed and millions of tons of contaminated silt and water washed into nearby Quesnel lake. Most subsequent news reports ignored the regulatory angle and focused on the company as the cause. The “no net loss” (of fish habitat) mentality puts regulators into a form of paralysis when it comes to benefit-cost decision making. A controlled release would have been trivial in terms of impact.
It’s all about job security. See, here’s the thing with EPA and various state EPAs. Maost times there’s no desire or incentive to “clean up” a site. Most times they just study it to death (“um, we’re gonna need more monitoring wells here, here and here”) and litigate, litigate, litigate (lawyers – hate ’em).
The EPA probability Model failed “Burping syndrome” and the Mine puked… Back to basic motherhood, or something
The stupidest thing was that the water, after 100 years of flowing out of the mine had probably washed out all but an insignificant amount of pollutants from its path. If it flowed for 1,000 years, it would only get cleaner. The county around here used to oil roads. If they spilled 10 gallons on the way to pour it on a road, it was an environmental disaster.
NDP: ‘$17/hour’ in English translates to ‘$15/hour’ in French, ‘$13/hour’ in Punjabi
MONTREAL – NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair has informed the media that the wage gap between party campaign workers is just how $17 per hour in English translates differently into French and Punjabi.
“These wages are a direct translation,” explained Mulcair while on the campaign trail in Ontario. “The NDP has always stood for wage equity according to someone’s native tongue. This translation is just like how ‘I support the Energy East Pipeline’ in English, means ‘I will not support the Energy East Pipeline until environmental reviews’ in French. It’s that simple.”
Many NDP candidates have been using the party’s official French-English dictionary as a guide, which provides a very nuanced translation for both official languages to ensure contradictory messages do not confuse anyone.
Mulcair also clarified ‘national unity’ in English actually means ‘Fifty plus one’ and a wink in French
http://www.thebeaverton.com/national/item/2018-ndp-17-hour-in-english-translates-to-15-hour-in-french-13-hour-in-punjabi
Saw this on Seen this on DC Caller sometime last week.
Sabotage is the first thing that came to mind.
If you can remember that far back, national socialists did the same type of thing to blame their fellow travellers the communists.
Was a dead duck found?….that would make international news…!! /sarc….
Mr. Taylor had best get his financial records in order. I feel a big irs audit headed his way. Followed by a swat raid on his home. Oh, we’re so sorry. An informant gave us the wrong address.
– A prime example of how the US federal system and its administrative wings have become so corrupt the democratic system cannot right it. It also demonstrates how the left are deeply entrenched in the corruption and the cause of most of it.
17,000 cheque cashers at the EPA conservatively $50,000/ year = 850 million, just to pay the guys punching clocks and poisoning rivers.
Can anyone imagine the media outcry if, say, Exxon had pulled the plug on this? I’ve heard this EPA director 3 times today on the hourly radio news state that the “river is cleaning itself”. Really??!! Has anyone EVER heard the EPA theorize that the environment is cleaning itself when a private corporation is involved in some sort of spill? I don’t think even the EPA’s beloved Leftist supporters are buying this crap.
I suspect the nexen spill is sabotage myself. a fish mouth hole is a ductile failure , like a hit.
They know that nature is 100% self correcting (people, contrary to the opinion of EPE, “journalists”, environ/mentalists and other such, are nature).
It is a destroyer if it finds the necessity.
It replenishes if it find it necessary.
It has eons to do it.
EPA is a fascist organization created by an US president in a moment of weakness.
It’s originally purpose was rather begnine, though as it is with all agencies of government, everywhere, it became a self serving bureaucracy that feeds its insatiable greed for money by lies criminal activities and general lawlessness.
It can not be repeated enough; Bureaucracy has the same ethics as fire.
Each is gonna consume all the resources it can reach.
Each has no concern for the damage.
Each is a useful servant but can never be master.
Both leap from slave to destructive chaos.
Here in the socialist paradise of Canada, we are slaves to the bureaus.
The reason you feel like civil society is being destroyed?
Cause it is.
Consider the obvious, the first thing to go when government takes over a civic function, is compassion.
Compassion is impossible in a bureaucracy.
As for uncommon sense , if you have never attended a committee meeting you might believe such a thing is possible by the Greys.
But if one had any ethics or self respect would they chose a life of parasitism ?
The GOP POTUS has to win three key states Florida, Ohio
And Colorado.
How much money is going to rain down in Colorado from an environmental superfund?
Here’s the EPA budget. Must be nice. Wonder if they get bonuses if they meet job destroying quotas ?
http://www2.epa.gov/planandbudget/budget
If the EPA would stop hiring from the bottom tier of likely achievers… Van-Jones had the plan to just plant trees…
This happened in Colorado & damaged all the States down stream. Who do you think will be sued besides the EPA. The Government of Colorado must protect the environment from the EPA
EPA did something similar at Summitville back in the 90s. Plus ca change…
EPA did a similar disastrous “cleanup” at Summitville back in the 90s, I believe.
EPA GO AWAY