EPA accidentally spills million gallons of mine waste in Colorado

[SpursforSix]

Get your tinfoil out. Local geologist writes newspaper a letter week before and predicts the spill and says EPA will do it on purpose to seize area and funds for treatment plant.



http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/08/letter-to-editor-predicted-colorado-epa-spill-one-week-before-catastrophe-so-epa-could-secure-superfund-cash/

Last Wednesday, a small EPA-supervised work crew inspecting the Gold King mine accidentally knocked a hole in a waste pit, releasing at least three million gallons of acidic liquid laden with toxic heavy metals. (ABC)This letter to editor, posted below, was published in The Silverton Standard and The Miner local newspaper, authored by a retired geologist, one week before EPA mine spill. The letter detailed verbatim, how EPA officials would foul up the Animas River on purpose in order to secure superfund money. If the Gold King mine was declared a superfund site it would essentially kill future development for the mining industry in the area. The Obama EPA is vehemently opposed to mining and development.
The EPA pushed for nearly 25 years, to apply its Superfund program to the Gold King mine. If a leak occurred the EPA would then receive superfund status. That is exactly what happened.
The EPA today admitted they misjudged the pressure in the gold mine before the spill – just as this editorial predicted.
The letter was included in their print edition on July 30, 2015. The spill occurred one week later.

damn

[CosmicCowboy]

An old girlfriend of mine from college is getting destroyed by this deal. She just spent her life savings (she was a chemical engineer) to retire on the Animas below Durango and started an organic farm...until this spill they got all of their water from the river. The EPA is taking responsibility for delivering clean house water but that is all. There is no way now she can use the river water (possibly forever) to water the organic vegetables because of the heavy metals in the water and who would want to buy a farm on a polluted river? She can't sue the contractor and can't sue the EPA so she is totally screwed.