Yes, it's the EPA's fault, they were told, by industry experts, not to
fuck with it. That the cofferdam was unstable, and could be easily
breached. Yet, the EPA persisted in fucking with it, until it was
breached. Thus changing the problem from one of local contamination to
one of regional contamination.
Ghostbusters was prescient
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vxEimC3HME
If a private company did this the ensuing reaction would mean the end of
the company, (as an aside, the executives and engineers responsible
would most likely be fired, as damage control, not to the environment
true, but in the forlorn hope of company survival). In this case no one
will even lose their job, government is exceeding bad at policing
itself. It is good at policing private industry, and I'm in favor of
that, under most circumstances.
On 10/26/2015 10:46 AM, John wrote:
And, of course, it's entirely the EPA's fault that an abandoned mine had
been festering for almost a hundred years, leaking "toxic water at a
rate of 50 to 250 gallons a minute" even before the EPA sent a
contractor's crew to investigate remediating the existing leakage.
On 10/25/2015 4:49 PM, P.J. Alling wrote:
Based on the track records, Governments are a poor choice to make such
decisions. I think the Navaho would say the Government should go to
Hell based on recent events on their reservation. A mining company
would never have made such a stupid mistake and if they had they could
be sued.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/us/durango-colorado-mine-spill-environmental-protection-agency.html?_r=0
On 10/25/2015 4:24 PM, knarf wrote:
I'm not a "let the government do everything" type of guy (despite a
general perception to the contrary). I am against a pervasive
government interfering in our day-to-day lives.
But who better than the government to decide on environmental and land
use issues like this? And if not the government, then who else?
Chopping down an entire mountain has (to say the least) rather far
reaching and long term consequences. Interested parties go far beyond
private land owners; society at large has a say in something like this.
Cheers,
frank
On October 25, 2015 3:52:14 PM EDT, Bill <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 10/25/2015 12:25 PM, knarf wrote:
The Government should decide.
Ouch.
I hope not.
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