3 ms·
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Gold_King_Mine_waste_water_spill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Gold_King_Mine_waste_wate... The EPA didn't create this
by titzer 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Gold_King_Mine_waste_water_spill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Gold_King_Mine_waste_wate...
The EPA didn't create this mess. They did screw up handling it, however. What happened was that the EPA accidentally released the waste products from an abandoned mine that had been accumulating in a reservoir for decades all at once. What do you think would have happened without any regulation at all? That shit would already be everywhere.
- eadmund 9y agoWell, for one think it'd have been diluted over the course of decades rather than all being released at once. That would have been far better for the environment.
- titzer 9y agoWell, no. The plan with capturing and concentrating the waste is to then treat said waste and dispose of it properly so that it doesn't enter the ecosystem at all. Dispersing it slowly over time is like slow death: it all accumulates eventually, since arsenic, lead, and other toxins don't just evaporate into nothingness.