Posted on 10/22/2015 5:46:59 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Government investigators squarely blamed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Thursday for a 3 million gallon wastewater spill from a Colorado gold mine, saying an EPA cleanup crew rushed its work and failed to consider the complex engineering involved, triggering the very blowout it hoped to avoid.
The spill that fouled rivers in three states would have been avoided had the EPA team checked on water levels inside the Gold King Mine before digging into a collapsed and leaking mine entrance, Interior Department investigators concluded. …
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Testing thier ability to poison water supplies and herd the populace into tighter areas for better control, agenda 21
Not an accident. Intentional. On purpose. Money and more power to the EPA if they could create another superfund site.
An experienced engineer warned the EPA in a letter the local editor : predicated about week before the EPA designed disaster.
I pray because of this massive spill, accidentalcor ot, that the EPA goes after itself wit the same gusto it goes after everyone else with, and bans and fines itself out of existence.
“A collapsed flooded mine is in effect a dam...”
It’s Damn alright, JUST DAMN!!!
F the EPA
This is third EPA spill in Colorado recently. Once spill is an accident. Three times is enemy action.
Apparently, Captain Obvious got a job at the Department of the Interior...
The EPA needs to collect $ billions from VW to pay for their monumental ****-up in Colorado.
At one time I was an exploration geologist. The emphasis of my company was for near surface uranium deposits. Had we done what the EPA did, criminal charges would have been filed and we would each have to have high dollar defense lawyers to keep us out of jail. There would be very little “due process” afforded to citizen miners as opposed to EPA lackeys.
That is just my own opinion, although I believe it is well-founded.
Oldplayer
No heads will roll.
The EPA will claim the root cause of the accident was not enough money in their budget.
I am in Durango even as I type this; the Animas River is still not back to normal, Most of the rocks and aquatic plants are still coated with gunk, except in mid stream, where the flow is fastest.
The letter to the editor from the retired geologist a week BEFORE the disaster makes it clear the breech was INTENTIONAL!!
Unless it's in the deep South.
Then it's a DAY-UM.
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