Gold King Mine Spill
Yep, par for the course: no accountability for the Gold King Mine spill. Enjoy the lasting effects of cadmium, lead, and other toxic elements, such as arsenic, beryllium, zinc, iron and raw copper.
US declines prosecution of government worker in mine spill by Matthew Brown
Just another in a string of cover ups. Take for instance the Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill. Another error from the EPA and NOT the coal company. The coal company engineers told EPA the slurry field was unstable. EPA overruled. BHO blamed coal for the spill as did everybody else in the news and outside Tennessee. The TVA, a gov't entity, denied that the spill was toxic despite dead fish, odor, and acid burning the flora. Then those gov't agencies waited to respond based on some fricken lab reports. What! Fix the spill first dummy.
Same rationale with Colorado. Both state and retired geologists warned the the EPA something was going to happen. When those citizen scientists brought the issue to various community councils the Federal Gov't threatened with lawsuits to shut the individuals up. That needs to be investigated, too. The feds undertook a psyops campaign against one of the stoutest mining geologists there, stating he was a retired old "senile" man.
We must remember that government lawyers, government IGs, and government inspectors all train and practice to cover the government's ass. Not to protect the US citizen. Only through a FOIA requests was Associated Press able to find US government was lying to people. Hence a cover up. 11 February 2016, the Denver Post reported that Hays Griswold, the EPA employee in charge of the Gold King mine, wrote in an e-mail to other EPA officials "that he personally knew the blockage could be holding back a lot of water and I believe the others in the group knew as well." That Griswold's e-mail appears directly to contradict findings and statements he made to public days after the disaster, where he claimed "nobody expected (the acid water backed up in the mine) to be that high."
- Matt Caldwell
