The Gold King Mine Disaster Cost Gina McCarthy And EPA Big Time
And then, there was Flint Michigan Water Crisis
April 5, 2015
The EPA behavior during the entire Gold King Mine event was to deflect blame and to obscure the facts of the spill.
Then, there was the way the EPA communicated the toxic spill to the public. It took the EPA 24 hours to alert Colorado and New Mexico states of the toxic spill. In fact, the EPA didn't public disclose the spill to the media until 3 days later.
Andfinally, the EPA's Gina McCarthy didnt talk about spill publicly until 6 days later, right after President Obama made his speech about the Clean Power Plan.
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“According to a video about the case released by the NCLA, Hennis' company owns the Gold King Mine in Silverton and Hennis himself owns the town of Gladstone, which was a mining community created in the 1870s. On Aug. 5, 2015, the EPA dug out the portal to the Gold King Mine, releasing the bright-orange water draining onto Hennis' property and into the Animas River, according to the NCLA. The firm also said the drainage included some 880,000 pounds of metals in the contaminated water.
In the aftermath, the NCLA said Hennis allowed the EPA access to his property for emergency management purposes, but Hennis alleges the EPA took advantage of him and ignored the scope of the access he gave the agency by building a $2.3 million water-treatment facility on his property. Hennis also said that the EPA threatened him with exorbitant fines of $59,000 per day if he refused continued access to the property.”
https://www.outtherecolorado.com/news/judges-ruling-allows-suit-against-epa-in-2015-gold-king-mine-spill-to-move-forward/article_3251d265-b71f-517e-bc9e-fdd5042f32e0.html