Remember a couple of weeks back when the EPA purposely dumped almost four million gallons of toxic waste into Colorado's Animas River? Turns out they did so in order to effectively nationalize the whole area by turning it into a SuperFund cleanup site, this isn't their first attempt at taking over this region, and the miner they have now repeatedly framed and sabotaged was the target of huge fine threats if he blew the whistle on them or otherwise stood in the way of their, yes, evil plans:
The owner of the Colorado’s Gold King Mine says he tried to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from gaining access to his property, but that he relented after the agency threatened to pound him with ruinous fines if he refused.
Mine owner Todd Hennis said that he had little choice four years ago but to allow in an EPA-led crew, which triggered the August 5th blowout that sent 3.8 million gallons of toxic orange wastewater down the Animas River.
“When you are a small guy and you’re having a $35,000 a day fine accrue against you, you have to run up the white flag,” Mr. Hennis told CBS4 in Denver.
Mr. Hennis said he opposed having the EPA investigate leakage from the inactive mine near Silverton, Colorado, because he had tangled with the agency in previous years over its work at another mine he owns in Leadville, Colorado.
“I said, ‘No, I don’t want you on my land out of fear that you will create additional pollution like you did in Leadville,’” Mr. Hennis told Colorado Watchdog.org. “They said, ‘If you don’t give us access within four days, we will fine you $35,000 a day.’”
A rogue bureaucracy, reveling in its unchecked power, running roughshod over the constitutional rights of American citizens, in an effort to create the very pollution its supposed to be their mission to prevent in order to further enhance their own power:
The EPA has a record of releasing toxic runoff from mines in two tiny Colorado towns that dates to 2005, a local mine owner claims.
The 3.8-million-gallon heavy-metal spill two weeks ago in Silverton polluted three States and touched off national outrage. But the EPA escaped public wrath in 2005 when it secretly dumped up to [fifteen kilo]tons of poisonous waste into another mine 124 miles away. 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 ten years and they have done nothing but create pollution. About 20% (of Silverton residents) think it’s on purpose so they can declare the whole area a Superfund site.” [emphases added]
This isn't public service, it's organized crime that would make the Mafia flinch.
There's already an overarching reason why the Environmental "Protection" Agency should be abolished: It's unconstitutional. But as a practical matter, if the EPA is polluting the environment for its own further empowerment and enrichment and blaming it on innocent, defenseless American citizens like an EcoGestapo, what good is it even by its own lights?
Yet another example of the Left's psychological projection, doing itself that of which it slanderously accuses its prey. They can't get rid of that "agency" and devolve and disperse its vast usurped power back to the States where it belongs fast enough.
UPDATE: Here is a map of the three-State area the EPA seeks to seize:
The estimated "cleanup" cost? As much as $27 BILLION.
And guess who'll be paying that bill?
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