Posted on 09/23/2023 5:19:56 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The Goracle owned a zinc mine located near his farm in Tennessee.
His father bought it from Occidental Minerals, a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum, and leased the mineral rights back to the company for 30 years.
Al bought the land from his parents in 1973.
The mine closed down in 2003 when the lease ran out.
A new operator reopened the mine around 2007.
In the years it operated under the first lease it produced millions of pounds of potentially toxic substances.
There are still massive white mountains of the leftover rock waste on the land near the mine.
n the five-year period from 1998 to 2003, before the mines were shuttered, more than 19 million pounds of toxic substances were released into the air, water and land, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxic Release Inventory data. Most of that was zinc pulled from the ground during mining.
Scorecard, a Web site run by environmentalists, said pollution releases from the mine in 2002 placed it among the ‘dirtiest/worst facilities’ in the U.S.”
Most of the improper discharges from the mine that ran into nearby rivers and streams involved higher than-allowed levels of zinc.
One of those waterways was the Caney Fork River, which Gore used as a backdrop in his Oscar-winning documentary on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
During the 1980s, the mine was the largest zinc-producing mine in the country.
Over the life of the first lease Gore received well over half a million dollars in royalties from the operator.
paper v plastic?
the grocery stores pushed that
plastic is cheaper
coconut oil on popcorn is unhealthy
the theaters pushed that
vegetable oil is cheaper
they do it openly
they get a do gooder nonprofit to do it for them
and yes now plastic is bad
so you have to buy your own
they dont do it openly
Setting the stage for Biden and the UN to declare a “Climate Emergency,” with a whole new set of unconstitutional restrictions on individual rights, new taxes, curbs on travel, squandering of even more trillions of dollars on green pork.
You know it’s coming, just a matter of when.
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