"occupation" of Idaho..

[Bigmack]

Apparently the EPA wants to clean up the heavy metal contamination around a Superfund site in Idaho.

Some of the locals are opposed...

"Many local people acknowledge the project has improved the environment and lowered lead levels in the blood of children. But resident David Bond thinks the government's new proposal is overkill. At a public meeting, he urged Governor Butch Otter to send EPA a message.

'Do not sign the document. Do not abdicate Idaho's rights as a sovereign state and do not abandon us through a century's occupation.' "

Occupation??? By the EPA? The jackbooted thugs of the EPA?? Removing toxins and cleaning up the environment to the tune of $! Billion???

What the fuck is wrong with those people?

http://news.opb.org/article/10946-north-idaho-residents-blast-epa-mine-cleanup-proposal/

[KT2000]

1. I know the type

as they are prominent in the area where I live. Unfortunately, many of them are the local government pooh pahs. They side with corporations to allow more dangerous pollution, they care more about a stigma to property values than the health of their own children and they have always believed that those chemicals cannot really hurt people - it is just a bunch of hippies and environmentalists who say that. Now we have the people who just do not want government involved in anything.

One thing I have learned is that there are many people who do not want their children to do better than their parents so that turned out to be a hopeless argument.

[MichaelHarris]

2. Well one of the towns

in question is named Smelterville. Beautiful stream runs right through it. Nothing lives in it though. Town of about 50 and they just opened a super Walmart. Freaky.

[gkhouston]

3. Christ. If the EPA's spending money on a Superfund site at this late date, it must

really be toxic. I thought the funding for that sort of work had dried up a long time ago.