GOVEROTRAGEOUS: EPA and the Gold King Mine

http://abcnews.go.com/US/million-gallons-contaminated-water-turns-river-orange-colorado/story?id=32989366

Three Million Gallons of Contaminated Water Turns River Orange in Colorado
Aug 10, 2015, 10:22 AM ET
By KAYLEE HECK via GOOD MORNING AMERICA

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A team of workers with the Environmental Protection Agency accidentally released 3 million gallons of waste water from the Gold King Mine in Silverton, Colorado, on Aug. 5, the agency said. It was initially estimated to be a third of that size at one million gallons, the EPA said.

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Laugh! Sadly shaking my head.

I get a lot of flak from folks about my continued assertions that the Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient!

Here’s a classic example.

I wonder who’s responsible for the damages?

Guess it’s the taxpayer.

Wonder how whoever owned this mine, and those who profited from it, were allowed to escape liability?

Argh!

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