On 2015-10-25 14:49 , P.J. Alling wrote:
Based on the track records, Governments are a poor choice to make such
decisions. I think the Navaho would say the Government should go to Hell
based on recent events on their reservation. A mining company would never
have made such a stupid mistake and if they had they could be sued.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/us/durango-colorado-mine-spill-environmental-protection-agency.html?_r=0
i walked along the Animas River in Durango only a few months ago, and i've
followed this event fairly closely; i think this spill is helping to bring
light to a much wider problem — the western U.S. has hundreds of thousands
of abandoned mines, many with less dramatic but much longer lasting toxic
outflows
one might excuse the environmental ignorance of miners over 100 years ago,
but there was also a lot of willful negligence and some of it continues;
resistance to regulation is intense; on top of that, mines in the watershed
had already done worse damage to the Animas River; this was well known, and
more comprehensive remediation had been discussed, but the locals had
rejected Superfund status because they didn't want the stigma (now they've
accepted it)
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