Heck of a job, Barry!
The EPA is trying to cheat Navajo Indians by getting them to sign away their rights to future claims from the agency’s Gold King Mine disaster, tribal officials charged Wednesday, adding more to the administration’s public relations problems over the spill that threatens critical Southwest waterways.
EPA officials were going door-to-door asking Navajo, some of whom don’t speak English as their primary language, to sign a form that offers to pay damages incurred so far from the spill, but waiving the right to come back and ask for more if their costs escalate or if they discover bigger problems, Navajo President Russell Begaye told The Washington Times.
“It is underhanded. They’re just trying to protect their pocketbook,” Mr. Begaye said in a telephone interview. […]
Rep. Rob Bishop, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, said through a spokeswoman that he’s heard the complaints from the Navajo Nation and will be investigating the entire disaster.
“Chairman Bishop is outraged at the reports that the EPA is asking tribal members to sacrifice their rights after EPA’s ineptitude has potentially threatened their health and livelihoods,” spokeswoman Julia Bell Slingsby said. “People are suffering because of EPA negligence and yet the federal government’s response is not to help, but to engage in grasping for legal cover before the full extent of damage is known to Navajo farmers.”
She said the EPA would come down hard on a private party who tried the same tactics, and demanded to know why the Interior Department, which has oversight of Indian affairs, hasn’t come to the aid of the tribes.
Mr. Begaye said the situation is all the more enraging because the EPA has admitted it will take decades to clean up the spill, yet the agency is pushing for Navajo to calculate their costs now and sign away their rights for the future.
Face it, Navajo Nation, you’re low value. Why should Obama and Leftists care about you? You have neither the voting numbers nor the oppressed-social-minority status to enhance The Narrative(tm).
Indeed, do take care on how much of a fuss you make. There are a lot of alphabet agencies and Obama has never been afraid to use them.
This whole story stinks from the prologue. What’s disconcerting with this bunch is, you don’t know how much is shear incompetence and how much is malice aforethought, you just know it’s some combination of the two.
This part of the story sounds to be both equally.
Hate to go all tin-foilly hat, but Zerohedge had an entry today about a retired geologist predicting this event a week before it happened in a letter to the editor to a newspaper in Silverton, Co. The claim is that the EPA did this on purpose to secure millions of $ in Superfund money.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-12/did-epa-intentionally-poison-animas-river-secure-superfund-money
Zerohedge had a pdf of the letter, but no link to the original document as far as I can tell. Damning stuff if true. Combine that with the EPA efforts to get the Navaho to sell away their rights, and it all looks pretty ugly.
I could believe they figured to release a little, just enough to get attention, then lost control and dumped the whole mess. It’s awful and a little scary. Just imagine if the winter runoff made the water in Hoover Dam unsafe to drink because of heavy metals.
If this had been a private company and its insurance carrier was doing this, imagine the outrage.
Second, know well that even accidental spills can subject one to criminal penalties under the Clean Water Act. I know of one sewer treatment operator who did two years in a Federal tennis prison after breaching a sewage treatment lagoon and letting a 100K gallons of sludge into a local creek. It was not intentional but was deemed criminally negligent.
Wait, so Navajos in distress?
Then surely Elizabeth Warren to the rescue. Right?
>Then surely Elizabeth Warren to the rescue. Right?<
she only does cherokee nation
Well dang, what became of high-cheekboned solidarity then? Just plain boned, if Lizzy Borden-Warren can’t take her hatchet to work for ’em.
>what became of high-cheekboned solidarity then? minority “victim” on the proggtard totem pole
2nd time
>what became of high-cheekboned solidarity then? minority “victim” on the proggtard totem pole .
3rd time
“what became of high-cheekboned solidarity then?”
big gov’t higher then minority “victim” on the proggtard totem pole
[…] Protein Wisdom/Darleen Click: EPA trying to swindle Navajos over toxic spill […]
It gets even better.
Letter to Editor PREDICTED COLORADO EPA SPILL One Week Before Catastrophe=> So EPA Could Secure Control of Area
These bastards should be strung up.
No doubt the EPA just lost a whole bunch of emails do to a hardware glitch.
Maybe a cow took a dump on the server in Shrillary’s barn that wasn’t seized?
due, not do.
damn you , whisky
isolated Durango’s one of those plucky lil quintessentially American towns that works really hard to make the best of what it’s got
for the fascist EPA to take away their river is really really fucking shitty
plus wouldn’t they’d get WAY more bang for their incompetence buck by ruining the Hudson or the Potomac?
In a sane world, Ernst, the EPA would be in deep do-do.
Bless you, whiskey.
here’s my favorite place to eat in that part of the whirl is not expensive but so so good and authentico and they serve you these micheladas in these huge margarita glasses it’s called Zia’s Tacos and it really is special though you’d never know it driving by
definitely don’t wait and try to eat in Farmingham
there’s nothing edible there
We’ve been in Bizzaro World for a good long time, Bob. But you know that, don’t you.
Wherever one may roam, feets eats.
nonono i also have this adorbs one cup rice cooker i imported from the japanesers and i eat in my hotel a lot cause of thrifty
you just throw in the rice and some tony chachere and a few lil vegetables from the pick n pack and then – this is key – scissor up some teriyaki beef jerky
and bam you good to go
Oh, and in case you’re wondering, this spill isn’t the EPA’s fault–at least, not according to CNN. No, it’s actually due to NOT ENOUGH REGULATIONS! http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/12/opinions/pagel-animas-river-pollution/index.html
It’s true! NOT ENOUGH REGULATIONS forced those guys working for the EPA to commit a cock-up of epic (or perhaps EPAic) proportions and dump all those millions of gallons of toxic waste into the river.
Damn you, NOT ENOUGH REGULATIONS! Damn you to Hell!
Still, then, we’re agreed.
You do eat.
Sing it, Crumit!
Ironic if the Navajo also get screwed by a EPA shutdown of their coal power plant in Arizona.
#Redlivesmatter …or maybe not. I suggest a name change to EDA.
If we passed a don’t do stupid shit law, the government would have to arrest itself.
OT without apologies: Listening to Levin just now speaking of Lincoln-Douglas type debates, and reading the Codevilla piece Levin addressed, I think I pre-jumped what I hope can become a bandwagon, or at least an idea which catches on with the candidates themselves, since it is their own independence we seek. [what follows I wrote to geoffb three days ago in e-mail]:
*** I return to a remark I wrote the day after that last “debate” show. At the time, it was just a casual thought. Now, however, it is beginning to look as though it might be a satisfactory solution to a problem grown very large: the badness of media intermediation between the candidates and the public which has deep interest in the selection process.
It begins with Machiavelli’s motto taught to the Prince: use “one’s own arms”. Be independent. Do not depend on others. Machiavelli cites David slaying Goliath, then using Goliath’s captured sword (eschewing or disdaining the proffered sword and armor from Saul — David makes himself himself) with which to cut off Goliath’s head. Take a weapon from your enemy. Control your own future.
So these candidates have lots and lots of money amongst them. They can put on their own display together. They can purchase the forum in which to hold it. They can do this swiftly, decisively. They can make their own rules. They can steal from the Democrats the tools to unseat them. They can show themselves. They need not be dependent on any network, or party apparatus, or moderator, or anyone but themselves. They need only use imagination to fulfill their own and our needs (let them show whether they think of us or not).
Levin’s Breitbart interview [Aug. 9] contains something like this, I think. I think I’ve begun to see it elsewhere. It seems to me now that nothing less will do. ***
In a sense, it’s a wonder the candidates haven’t generated the simple idea themselves. And not a good wonder, either.
> They can purchase the forum in which to hold it. <
and cspan would cablecast it for free.
The moderators of the first debate spent nearly one third of the available time framing their carefully crafted (“journalist” style) questions. I’ve never personally been involved in formal debates, but that don’t sound right…
I mean, it seemed like Kelly spent more time asking the Donald a question about Rosie O than Cruz got in the entire debate.
trump on levin was interesting
I think my wife summed it up nicely: He’s a good salesman!
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>5. Brothers and sisters, do not be afraid to welcome Christ and accept his power. Help the Pope and all those who wish to serve Christ and with Christ’s power to serve the human person and the whole of mankind. Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors for Christ. To his saving power open the boundaries of States, economic and political systems, the vast fields of culture, civilization and development. Do not be afraid. Christ knows “what is in man”. He alone knows it.
So often today man does not know what is within him, in the depths of his mind and heart. So often he is uncertain about the meaning of his life on this earth. He is assailed by doubt, a doubt which turns into despair. We ask you therefore, we beg you with humility and trust, let Christ speak to man. He alone has words of life, yes, of eternal life. <
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Sign nothing.
That’s a pretty easy thing to understand.