I am quite confident I don't have to enter a defense of the EPA, it's Secretary is more than capable of speaking to this LONG STANDING problem ACROSS the entire country. So, why open still yet another mine in Wisconsin?
August 14, 2015
By Steve Staeger
DENVER – The owner (click here) of the gold mine that blew out last week sending toxic water down the Animas River is blaming a neighboring mine for contributing to the problem.
EPA crews accidentally caused the blowout earlier this month while excavating the entrance to the vacant Gold King Mine. As much as three million gallons of contaminated water ended up flowing down the river.
"This has been a very slow motion trainwreck – a disaster waiting to happen," said Todd Hennis who owns the Gold King Mine.
Hennis says he has been warning the public for more than a decade about what he felt were hazardous conditions at a neighboring mine.
In the 1990s the Sunnyside mine closed down and the ownership at the time negotiated with the state to install bulkheads in the mine, essentially damming it up and keeping any contaminated water inside....
The Gold King Mine incident is not about carbon dioxide or the competency of the EPA regardless of what the petroleum industry says, it is about the complete NEGLECT by the US Congress to provide funds to clean up what really are SUPERFUND sites.
The Gold King Mine did not happen over night, it was simply waiting to happen. There are reasons environmental groups fight very hard to prevent such enterprises such as open pit mining, or coal ash dumps or mining, because, they are toxic spheres that endanger human health and the beauty of our land.
August 14, 2015By Steve Staeger
DENVER – The owner (click here) of the gold mine that blew out last week sending toxic water down the Animas River is blaming a neighboring mine for contributing to the problem.
EPA crews accidentally caused the blowout earlier this month while excavating the entrance to the vacant Gold King Mine. As much as three million gallons of contaminated water ended up flowing down the river.
"This has been a very slow motion trainwreck – a disaster waiting to happen," said Todd Hennis who owns the Gold King Mine.
Hennis says he has been warning the public for more than a decade about what he felt were hazardous conditions at a neighboring mine.
In the 1990s the Sunnyside mine closed down and the ownership at the time negotiated with the state to install bulkheads in the mine, essentially damming it up and keeping any contaminated water inside....
The Gold King Mine incident is not about carbon dioxide or the competency of the EPA regardless of what the petroleum industry says, it is about the complete NEGLECT by the US Congress to provide funds to clean up what really are SUPERFUND sites.
The Gold King Mine did not happen over night, it was simply waiting to happen. There are reasons environmental groups fight very hard to prevent such enterprises such as open pit mining, or coal ash dumps or mining, because, they are toxic spheres that endanger human health and the beauty of our land.
