EPA Gushing Toxic Waste Into A Colorado River

by JASmius



Um, physicians, heal thyselves?:

A team of U.S. regulators probing contamination at a Colorado gold mine accidentally released a million gallons (3.8 million liters) of orange-hued waste water containing sediment and metals into a local river system, the Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday.

The waste water that had been held behind a barrier near the abandoned Gold King Mine spilled on Wednesday into Cement Creek, which flows into the Animas River in San Juan County, EPA spokesman Rich Mylott said.

Several workers were in the EPA crew that was using heavy equipment to pump and treat the waste water when the breach occurred, Mylott said, adding that none were injured.

How about "Who watches the watchers"?  If Americans believe, as they've been indoctrinated to do for decades, in "clean water and clean air," how do they protect themselves from an "Environmental Protection Agency" that not only doesn't protect the environment but actively, purposefully takes dumps in U.S. waterways?  Heck, we can't protect ourselves from the EPA's unconstitutional bureaucratic despotism; now they're rubbing our noses in just how powerless against them we really are, and that their purpose isn't "environmental protection" and never was.

Oh, but they insist that befouling the Animas River was an "accident".  Well, so what?  Nobody and no company deliberately "discharges" into rivers.  Those are accidents, too, and yet EPA never cuts their own victims any slack or shows them any mercy; they're treated like the vilest of criminals comprehensively destroyed.  Which could never be done to EPA itself short of its abolition or defunding, so ludicrous an impossibility that I've already wasted too many keystrokes even alluding to it.

Besides, EPA doesn't care about toxic waste or cow feces or "suspended particulates" - obviously, since they're taking dumps in Colorado rivers - they're obsessed with purging the planet of carbon,  Which helps explain why we are ALL - humans, flora, fauna - on EPA's target list.  Compared to ambitions that grandly and arrogantly stupendous, what's a de minimus megagallon of toxic waste?  Just drink your mustard water, Coloradans, die horribly, and be grateful our greenstremist overlords were so lenient with you.  Next time, the dump-taking could be much, much worse.