The lack of morality when it comes to global natural resources has been devastating. The heat within the troposphere is proof.
The USA used to be a great leader, but, today it is simply a shell of itself whereby corporations have the same rights as people. To say the government is perverse is a reasonable statement.
Reagan was responsible for the modern day Republican immorality of protecting human health. He enjoyed many scandals during his years in the White House, his "Sewergate" was only one.
February 9, 2012
By Joel Dyer
...When it comes to the public record (click here) concerning the 103-acre property now owned by the City of Boulder on Valmont Butte, all roads lead to Rome, or more specifically, all roads lead to 1982. Even the remediation that has taken place at the butte in recent years seems to flow from assumptions made and actions taken, right or wrong, around this critical period. To put this slice of time into context, we must go back a ways.
The City’s tract of land at Valmont Butte was owned by Allied Chemical from 1941 to 1974. The chemical giant operated a fluorspar mill on the site during this period. While the site was also used as a gold and silver mill as well as a fluorspar mill by other parties for approximately six years prior to Allied’s acquisition of the property, and also as a gold mill for a few years after it was sold, it was Allied’s actions that accounted for the vast majority of the tailings contamination at the site.
It is estimated that more than 430,000 net tons of radioactive tailings containing significant levels of heavy metals, primarily lead and arsenic, are buried at the site in the primary and secondary tailings ponds (see map on page 14). As the map also indicates, radio active hot spots and lead-contaminated soils are found on many areas outside the ponds as well. In addition, between 150 and 200 truckloads of radium-contaminated soil were buried in two holes at the site in 1971. This radium-contaminated soil came from a construction site at Third and Pearl streets in Boulder, where the Housing Authority of the City of Boulder (HACB) was building a low-income housing project when the contamination was discovered and transported to the butte.
As important as what was contaminating the site in the years leading up to 1982 was the evidence that had been gathered by state and county health officials that indicated that nearby properties and water supplies were also being contaminated by Allied’s milling operation....
Father like Son. Scott Walker's "Sewergate." Scott Walker needs to be held responsible for the underhanded agenda of his administration. He is not blameless. The only other possibility is that he was an absent landlord except for filling his elections coffers day after day. The King of Rhetoric was far to busy to ever be a governor.
Outraged residents of Concord, WI (click here) packed the Town Hall on Monday night to voice their concerns about the stink raised by Ron Seely’s recent report in the Wisconsin State Journal. Seely was looking into the question of, “how the political and business ties of top DNR administrators appointed by Gov. Scott Walker are influencing their handling of law enforcement cases.”...
...Kimberlee Wright of Midwest Environmental Advocates was involved with obtaining all of the DNR investigation records that led to the Wisconsin State Journal article. She attended the meeting and described the potential dangers to public health when scientists aren’t allowed to do their jobs due to political influence at the top. She also encouraged Ingersoll and others to seek copies of the investigative record, since it has all of the information they need to understand the scope and severity of the problem.
Seely’s report noted that the Deputy Secretary of the DNR, Matt Moroney, recused himself from handling the case because he was “acquainted with another officer of Herr Environmental.” That would be Todd Stair, Vice President of Herr Environmental who also serves on the advisory board of the Metropolitan Builders Association. Moroney was Executive Director of that organization before he was tapped by Walker-appointed DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp to be her Deputy in late 2010. A builder by profession, Stepp has also served as a member and on the board of the Metropolitan Builders Association....
The USA used to be a great leader, but, today it is simply a shell of itself whereby corporations have the same rights as people. To say the government is perverse is a reasonable statement.
Reagan was responsible for the modern day Republican immorality of protecting human health. He enjoyed many scandals during his years in the White House, his "Sewergate" was only one.
February 9, 2012
By Joel Dyer
...When it comes to the public record (click here) concerning the 103-acre property now owned by the City of Boulder on Valmont Butte, all roads lead to Rome, or more specifically, all roads lead to 1982. Even the remediation that has taken place at the butte in recent years seems to flow from assumptions made and actions taken, right or wrong, around this critical period. To put this slice of time into context, we must go back a ways.
The City’s tract of land at Valmont Butte was owned by Allied Chemical from 1941 to 1974. The chemical giant operated a fluorspar mill on the site during this period. While the site was also used as a gold and silver mill as well as a fluorspar mill by other parties for approximately six years prior to Allied’s acquisition of the property, and also as a gold mill for a few years after it was sold, it was Allied’s actions that accounted for the vast majority of the tailings contamination at the site.
It is estimated that more than 430,000 net tons of radioactive tailings containing significant levels of heavy metals, primarily lead and arsenic, are buried at the site in the primary and secondary tailings ponds (see map on page 14). As the map also indicates, radio active hot spots and lead-contaminated soils are found on many areas outside the ponds as well. In addition, between 150 and 200 truckloads of radium-contaminated soil were buried in two holes at the site in 1971. This radium-contaminated soil came from a construction site at Third and Pearl streets in Boulder, where the Housing Authority of the City of Boulder (HACB) was building a low-income housing project when the contamination was discovered and transported to the butte.
As important as what was contaminating the site in the years leading up to 1982 was the evidence that had been gathered by state and county health officials that indicated that nearby properties and water supplies were also being contaminated by Allied’s milling operation....
Father like Son. Scott Walker's "Sewergate." Scott Walker needs to be held responsible for the underhanded agenda of his administration. He is not blameless. The only other possibility is that he was an absent landlord except for filling his elections coffers day after day. The King of Rhetoric was far to busy to ever be a governor.
Outraged residents of Concord, WI (click here) packed the Town Hall on Monday night to voice their concerns about the stink raised by Ron Seely’s recent report in the Wisconsin State Journal. Seely was looking into the question of, “how the political and business ties of top DNR administrators appointed by Gov. Scott Walker are influencing their handling of law enforcement cases.”...
...Kimberlee Wright of Midwest Environmental Advocates was involved with obtaining all of the DNR investigation records that led to the Wisconsin State Journal article. She attended the meeting and described the potential dangers to public health when scientists aren’t allowed to do their jobs due to political influence at the top. She also encouraged Ingersoll and others to seek copies of the investigative record, since it has all of the information they need to understand the scope and severity of the problem.
Seely’s report noted that the Deputy Secretary of the DNR, Matt Moroney, recused himself from handling the case because he was “acquainted with another officer of Herr Environmental.” That would be Todd Stair, Vice President of Herr Environmental who also serves on the advisory board of the Metropolitan Builders Association. Moroney was Executive Director of that organization before he was tapped by Walker-appointed DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp to be her Deputy in late 2010. A builder by profession, Stepp has also served as a member and on the board of the Metropolitan Builders Association....
