Posted on 10/08/2015 9:28:34 PM PDT by george76
Once again the EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] has failed to notify the appropriate local officials and agencies of the spill in a timely manner.” These are the words of U.S. Congressman Scott Tipton (R-CO) of Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District in response to another toxic spill resulting from EPA activities at an abandoned mine in western Colorado.
According to the Denver Post, an EPA mine crew working Thursday at the Standard Mine in the mountains near Crested Butte, triggered another spill of some 2,000 gallons of wastewater into a nearby mountain creek. Supporting Tipton’s remarks to Watchdog Arena, the Denver Post report states that the EPA had failed to release a report about the incident at the time of its writing.
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Although the scale of the Standard Mine spill is much smaller than that which turned the Animas River pumpkin-orange and flowed into New Mexico and Utah, it will likely be of concern for residents living downstream where the effected Elk Creek runs into Coal Creek.
Tipton told Watchdog Arena that the EPA, to date, has failed to provide answers to Congress about its handling of the Aug. 5 Gold King mine disaster. “We still have not received any answers to the initial request to the EPA. In hearings, Gina McCarthy claimed to know nothing about the Congressional letter of inquiry into the spill, and her staff just shrugged.”
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We question the veracity of the EPA and its capacity to properly handle these disasters,” he said. “We want our local governments and officials to be nimble enough to address the issues of impact to water, habitats, environment, and people, which the EPA is either unwilling or unable to do.”
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Hey EPA jerks: quit spending your time worrying about the hoax that is global warming and the grouse etc., and STOP POISONING OUT WATER SUPPLY! Sheesh!!!
Is this a trend now?
A hegelian tactic to advance Agenda 21?
If Colorado had a Governor that wasn’t a liberal and had a pair of cojones, he’d send the National Guard in to arrest the EPA clowns and prosecute them.
The EPA has a record of releasing toxic runoff from mines that dates to 2005. That dump – containing arsenic, lead and other materials – materialized in runoff in the town of Leadville, said Todd Hennis, who owns both mines along with numerous others.
“If a private company had done this, they would’ve been fined out of existence,” Hennis said. “I have been battling the EPA for 10 years and they have done nothing but create pollution. About 20 percent (of Silverton residents) think it’s on purpose so they can declare the whole area a Superfund site.”
http://watchdog.org/234100/epa-disasters/
The EPA, to date, has failed to provide answers to Congress about its handling of the Aug. 5 Gold King mine disaster.
In hearings, EPA head Gina McCarthy claimed to know nothing about the Congressional letter of inquiry into the spill, and her staff just shrugged.
Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
Government is the only place a person can get paid so well for doing nothing but FUBAR all over the place.
Too often to be anything but deliberate. It’s criminal.
Job security?
Good Lord EPA. Don’t just do something, stand there!
The EPA is obstinate and arrogant and we will see more and more of this kind of thing.
They will let nothing interfere with their agenda.
In hearings, EPA head Gina McCarthy claimed to know nothing about the Congressional letter of inquiry into the spill, and her staff just shrugged.
That’s a very effective tactic. They know exactly what they’re doing.
Yes.
The EPA is like Obama, thumbing it’s NOSE at Americans and our LAWS.
That’s a good one.
I know exactly where that photo was taken.
EPA - Epic Polluting Agency
What did you say?
I can’t hear you.
I know nothing about it.
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