EPA: how do I clean spill?! hurr

[phuckphace]

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/10/us/colorado-epa-mine-river-spill/

(CNN)The mustard hue of the Animas River in Colorado -- the most visible effect of a mistake by the Environmental Protection Agency that dumped millions of gallons of pollutants into the water -- is striking.

Just a glance at a photo of the orange-yellowish slush is enough to know that something seems wrong. Scientists will have to say just how wrong, and possibly dangerous, the contamination is, though five days after the spill answers are few.

Just how polluted is the river? Is drinking water in peril? Are businesses dependent on the river out of luck?

One question that has been answered is the size of the spill: more than triple than originally estimated. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the size of the spill to be more than 3 million gallons, compared with the initial EPA estimate of 1 million gallons.

so yeah, the Colorado River is now full of heavy metal runoff due to a cockup at a mine "regulated" by the EPA. now the poison water is fucking up the environment while slack jawed bureaucrats fumble around ("complex and time-consuming") :lol3: you've got lead, arsenic, cadmium, the works. it's so ugly now :(

[Microcosm]

These people say they "regulate" it, but they're obviously not doing a good job or they're not caring enough.

[thatcountrykid]

It's not the Colorado river. It's the animas

[Sweeper]

The Commerce Department destroys commerce, The Unemployment Secretary raises unemployment, The Education Department destroys education. Now The EPA destroys the environment. Lovely.

[Jean Poutine]

http://s13.postimg.org/8pw5gsovb/1439394596337_0.jpg

[phuckphace]

It's not the Colorado river. It's the animas

dammit

yeah gimmie a break guys my degree is in African feminist women's studies not geography jeez

[Stronk Serb]

And we are supposed to sell our gold mines to the Americans? Fuck no.

[phuckphace]

And we are supposed to sell our gold mines to the Americans? Fuck no.

tiny countries are *fucked* when this happens. I guess having way too much territory makes one forget this at times

[Stronk Serb]

tiny countries are *fucked* when this happens. I guess having way too much territory makes one forget this at times

Yeah because pretty much everyone uses those waters for drinking. It's been happening here but has been largely ignored by major news agencies, as ordered by the progressive scum because that could hurt their rating. Honestly, I don't know what's worse, people living in a lie until they start dropping or people knowing that shit happened. I guess the first thing.