This is what the US media doesn't want you to see regarding the river in Colorado.

[Zorra]

It's much worse than the media is covering up.

The Native American community appreciates any support that people provide for this terrible tragedy. Real lives depend upon this river for food and sustainability. It is truly horrific what has happened.

(Posted DUer Googler21

[Old Crow]

1. This is, indeed, an environmental nightmare.

Cadmium, arsenic, and lead levels off the charts: wow. Much worse than I'd thought. Thanks for posting.

[tk2kewl]

2. they spelled 'Die' wrong

[Mnemosyne]

3. Just horrific. And idiots were kayaking on the river after the spill? How can that mess ever

be cleaned up?

[Fred Sanders]

5. I would guess they are on the river not for pleasure, but to do analysis?

[Mnemosyne]

7. I hope you are right, Fred, but seems it could be done from the banks more safely. nt

[Fred Sanders]

8. More to the point....what is with the fucking American media....worse that useless...including,

if I might add non-topically, refusing to cover the huge Sanders rallies while obsessing over a canned "debate"!

[Mnemosyne]

9. When I saw faux news the first time in 1996?, I was chilled to the bone. The media has only gotten

worse. Propaganda has become mainstream with almost no true journalists employed anymore it seems.

It's all smoke and mirrors now, sadly...

[Fred Sanders]

4. The American mass media is a sick puppy, sucking at the teat of CU and protective of its advertisers

They are a huge part of the problem, they will never be part of the solution.

20,000 people are effected by this further example of how political corruption and cowardly lawmakers have real world consequences.

And since few white folks are being effected.....more white privilege to not bother being too concerned or give publicity.

[annabanana]

6. It's a pity that New Mexico fought "Superfund Cleanup Site" status for decades.

Apparently they were afraid that the designation would scare off companies that might have reopened the mine.

[ALBliberal]

10. The mine is in Silverton Colorado

[blackspade]

11. This will take decades to clean up.

The M$M is brushing this under the rug.

[Dustlawyer]

18. They will never clean it all up, they never do.

Just like the Gulf oil spill, where BP used Corexit to sink the oil to the bottom to hide the extent, it will be there for thousands of years and will sterilize the Gulf sea life well before then.
The PI part of the class settlement is a joke and paid almost no one!
Hope the government does better than the private sector, but I won't hold my breath!

[L0oniX]

12. This will taint our food supply. Cadnium? mercury? lead? arsenic? and much more. Yum yum yum!

...and for how long will this toxic water affect the food?

[JayhawkSD]

13. I have to take issue with the OP headline.

There was nothing in that film clip which was not shown on CBS Evening News.

Don't get me wrong, I am no shill for CBS or any other mass media. They are liars and shills for the corporate/military/political ruling class, but in this case... Again, I saw nothing there that the mass media did not report.

[progree]

23. Thank you for speaking out, even though it doesn't sound wonderfully progressive

I have seen plenty of coverage in the U.S. media too. And Yahoo News had 4 stories this morning on it in the top 40 or so news stories, with one of them being #4 (and I've been seeing stories for several days).

But for some reason it is considered wonderfully "progressive" to blather about something not being covered by the MSM and thank Juh-HEE-zus there is Russian TV to tell us what is REALLY going on, even though the quickest Google search on news articles will show thousands -- this one is a search on "colorado spill" with the news link selected:

https://www.google.com/search?num=50&safe=off&espv=2&biw=1179&bih=841&tbm=nws&q=colorado+spill&oq=colorado+spill&gs_l=serp.3...6403.9209.0.15450.14.13.0.0.0.0.1098.1757.0j3j1j7-1.5.0....0...1.1.64.serp..10.4.656.KQSW1ay8jbs

As for TV evening news, I've seen it there too multiple times.

[JayhawkSD]

24. Thanks for the support.

I'm not "progressive." I'm not "liberal" or "conservative" or any of the other labels. I do not view issues through the lens of any ideology. I view each issue on its own merits. What does it do? Who does it serve? What does it cost? How do we pay for it? What are the alternatives?

That is not easy. It means I have to do research. It means I have to think for myself. It means I have to apply reason and thought to the issue.

Ideology is much easier. It would allow me to let someone else tell me what to think. It would make voting really simple and easy, just look at the letter after the person's name. It would allow me to be lazy and stupid. It would relieve me of the responsibility of citizenship.

Trying to exercise the responsibility of citizenship gets me in trouble on this board, because I don't drink the koolaid. I don't "go along to get along." Thinkers are seldom popular.

[glinda]

14. Sadly it is almost or all about "humans" every time I read or hear a report.

[Enthusiast]

15. Fucking sickening.

[dougolat]

16. But, but..."The solution to pollution is dilution!"

You know, like with Fukushima.

And the BP spill.

And our flimsy whisp of atmosphere.

[DaGoogler21]

21. Great slogan and post.

[valerief]

17. Was this "mistake" done to create bad press for the EPA, thereby making it easier for

the human-hating GOP Congress to rid the U.S. of this agency?

Or did the land owners want to get rid of the toxins to pave the way for new development and paid the EPA to do so?

A mistake this huge is no mistake. I smell a rat.

[2naSalit]

19. I think there is a rat involved here...

This was done by contractors... and who IS this contractor? And could this have been funded by a certain cabal whose name shall not be mentioned but who would like the EPA to get some really nasty PR in order to drown the agency in a bathtub?

[busterbrown]

20. Hope you guys come up with the Contacter”s name

[2naSalit]

25. Hmmm...

Just saw your post and 'googled"... found this so far:

Missouri-based Environmental Restoration LLC was the contractor whose work caused a mine spill in Colorado that released an estimated three million gallons of toxic sludge into a major river system, according to an Environmental Protection Agency official and government documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal

---snip---

From October 2007 through this month, Environmental Restoration has been awarded $381 million in federal contracts, according to government procurement data compiled on USAspending.gov. The vast majority—more than $364 million—of that total was for work for the EPA. About 10%, or $37 million of the EPA’s awarded amount, was for contracts within the state of Colorado.

The Gold King mine wasn’t a designated Superfund cleanup site, which would have required far more funding. Rather, Environmental Restoration was trying to stop wastewater from escaping the mine at the time of the breach, government documents indicate.

The massive spill—which resulted in dramatic images of mustard-colored wastewater laced with heavy metals—highlights the market for environmental cleanup firms, a lucrative government contracting business. The company was listed by an engineering trade publication last year as one of the top 100 environmental firms in the country, with revenue estimated at close to $80 million.

---snip---

http://www.wsj.com/articles/epa-contractor-involved-in-colorado-spill-identified-as-environmental-restoration-1439414672

Just a little more at the link that indicates there was a confidentiality agreement between EPA and this contractor who has, as it appears, a high revenue base with a not so stellar success rate given the results of the disasters they tout in their portfolio.

[Warpy]

26. Depends on what part of the country you're in, we've seen all of this

posted on local news stations in NM. AZ is a red state so maybe they haven't bothered to tell anyone just how bad it's been.

The water is now safe in Durango and it's starting to clear in Farmington. Where it will cost the most to clean up (if they bother) is where the river is dammed, Lake Powell and Lake Mead. The latter is the reservoir for Las Vegas. Both are at record low levels so the EPA can't rely on much dilution.

BTW, the pictures don't do it justice, it was more of a bright yellow-orange, almost Day-Glo, from the cadmium salts.

That old mine was leaking very badly, which is why the EPA was there in the first place. Don't hold your breath waiting for the descendants of the scumbag who left the huge mess to be charged for cleaning up great grandpa's ticking time bomb.

This mine was one of the worst. It's also one of many dozens.