Indians say EPA trying to swindle them in mine spill

Washington Times ^ | August 12, 2015 | Stephen Dinan

[george76]

The EPA is trying to cheat Navajo Indians by getting them to sign away their rights to future claims from the agency’s Gold King Mine disaster, tribal officials charged Wednesday, adding more to the administration’s public relations problems over the spill that threatens critical Southwest waterways.

EPA officials were going door-to-door asking Navajo, some of whom don’t speak English as their primary language, to sign a form that offers to pay damages incurred so far from the spill, but waiving the right to come back and ask for more if their costs escalate or if they discover bigger problems,

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the EPA would come down hard on a private party who tried the same tactics, and demanded to know why the Interior Department, which has oversight of Indian affairs, hasn’t come to the aid of the tribes.

[ForAmerica]

Agenda21 and wildlands project at it’s best!

[george76]

Yes.

[Stand Watch Listen]

[ColdOne]

+1...bravo!

[Domangart]

WWW.DenverPost.com/environment/ci/28624471/animas-river-spill-gold-king-mine-one-many-area-releasing-heavy

[ColdOne]

Thank you for link

[VideoDoctor]

ERADICATE the current EPA asap.

It's an agency that does more HARM to America than GOOD.

[dfwgator]

“Why do I always get a warped one?”

[dfwgator]

[Chickensoup]

boy they didn’t react this way about the Gulf oil spill.

[Colorado Doug]

Hand Up Don’t Pollute!

[ROCKLOBSTER]

The typical red person

What an @$$.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

that water is being diluted immensly as the plug progresses downstream...The earth is pretty robust and tends to cleanse itself quite effectively.

Not to mention...God saw fit to dump 4" of rain on the area.

[sarasmom]

You have a rather unique “take” on various binding legal treaties the USA has engaged in for several centuries.

My grandmother warned me about people like you.
Apparently your grandmother didn't warn you about people like me.

You must be a “newbie” (family immigration history to the USA terms).

I could still claim “legal tribal status”, although not that of the specific Navajo tribe this thread references.

Your ignorant, anti-tribal-USA-citizen rant, against this particular sovereign tribe, is an interesting example of both loony political raving, and low information opinion.

[WayneS]

Are you too stupid to recognize sarcasm when you see it?

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Are you too stupid to not make an offensive statement when you should just be SHUTTIN UP?

What you did was essentially the same as using the “N-word”.

Such “cleverly disguised” sarcasm should be followed by a </sarc> tag.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

>> sarcasm <<

The typical red person is not wealthy; is not black, and is not muslim.

So, you're actually saying: The typical red person is wealthy, is black, and is muslim.

[WayneS]

So you did not recognize it as a snarky parody of Obama’s “typical white person” comment about his own grandmother?

How short is your memory, anyway?

[WayneS]

The comment was about Obama’s lack of interest in Amercan Indians. If you’re not intelligent or perceptive enough to “get” the link to his past offensive comments then I cannot help you.

[Teacher317]

Following? Many are not so patient...