EPA releases Gold King Mine blowout footage: 'Get outta here?!… What do we do now?'
EPA releases Gold King Mine blowout footage: 'Get outta here?!… What do we do now?'
On September 2, 2015 EPA posted the following edited footage filmed by EPA contractors of the Gold King Mine blowout of August 5, 2015.
What a bunch of complete f*****g idiots! At the beginning, it’s just a trickle! If they had brought that backhoe in just as the outflow started, they could have blocked the entrance to the mine and stopped it before it began!
If you people read the cpr/news/story/gold-king-mine-1887-claim-private-profits-and-social-costs. you will learn the truth behind this disaster caused the problem of the backed up toxic waste water, but refused to clean it up. Former mine owners wouldn’t clean up their mess. They tried to plug the mines but the plugs were leaking. So the mess was left to the EPA to fix. The construction company hired by the EPA caused the blow out…they hadn’t realised how much water had built up behind the plug. By the way, the mine produced $150 MILLION for the former owners. So blame the mine owners, not the EPA who was trying to fix someone else’s mess, nor Obama. He had nothing to do with it. READ THE ARTICLE PEOPLE! SHEESH!
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Jahat loh!!!
Sounds like they didn’t have a clue! What a bunch of morons.
ya know, a lot of these mines are a hundred or two old. i dare anyone try to navigate on a 100 year old map. not very accurate. everyone talking shit about these guys but they didn’t do anything wrong. this shit happens all the time and usually people die. not this time. be thankful.
Ummm, what happen? And how did it happen?
Dumbasses ruining the land…hang ’em by a tall tree!
This is the fault of the engineers who assumed things about the water level inside of the mine. Had they drilled from above first they would’ve discovered that the water level was too high to open it the way they did.
The mine was already seeping the same comtaminents into the environment and it need to be drained and treated properly. Sadly someone decided it would be too expensive/difficult to check that their plan would work. And of course being a government agency there are no consequences
This was setup by the EPA! Furthermore… How was it that the camera just so happened to start rolling before the spill occurred? Hmmmm?
Is it odd to anyone else that they didnt even try to stop it?
I live near here, wtf is wrong with these jackasses.
The EPA did more damage to the environment with this colossal fuck-up than any abandoned mine explorer has done or ever will do. At :44 in the video some clueless person asks “What do we do now?” How about leaving abandoned mines alone and quit trying to plug them, close them, destroy them, or otherwise raze them so that their history is destroyed and lost forever? Start there.
How disaster was averted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4tC3sgBdqc&fbclid=IwAR0osPCFSVdP4XmdtPTGTEDfETBLw4HYszfNTr6o618aMyxfrvdSfD5vW7w
Everyone just stands there, no effort to try and stop it. If they acted quickly in the beginning this could have been prevented!
We’re from the government. We’re here to help you! NOT!!!!!!
When all you had to do was drill a hole from above to verify the water level is actually where you think it is but you decide that because it worked at another mine in the past (where they drilled a hole 1st) it should be fine
LIBTURDS protecting LIBTURDS.
No charges filed.
No one fired.
No one reprimanded.
The problem is the epa who is not trained on mines took on a job that is specifically made for msha
But the miners are the one contaminating things…. riiiighhht…
These guys are assholes…… they could have just plugged it up as soon as it started.
F*cking POS
Maybe the EPA should stop capping mines causing blowouts!
How the hell do you even do that? Did they dig into a groundwater table or a pipeline or underground river?
They did it on purpose but what for
BFD
rip everything that touched.
it’s probably an aquapher and I doubt tree any chemicals in there…
They are saying we F***ed up more like 30,000,000 gallons and not 3 million.
So that’s where Caltrans gets their paint, they store it that mountain.
our government, greedy, destructive and unaccountable.
Filmed in fucking potrait…
is he going to close it up?? smh these people need shot dead
Job security . They just created a NEW Super-Fund Site .
HEY GUYS I HAVE A GREAT IDEA, LETS ALL GO IMPEACH TRUMP AND LEAVE THE EPA TO RUINING OUR ENVIRONMENT AMIRITE?
This is what happens when you hire Billy Bob and his lowest bid contractors. Government needs to stop using LOWEST bid contractors, because you get what you pay for.
Incompetent government idiots. Result=locals elect incompetent gun wearing, air headed US Representative. Ronnie said it best. The world is full of kings and queens that will blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
you thought you where 20 feet above it so what thats not how water pressure works
Government workers.
Stupid money hungry pigs….this is disgusting.
Is he gonna go close it up???
Idiots.
Way to go EPA!! Still this many years later, no charges, no fines. Hell the contractor and engineers probably received a bonus.
You have heavy pieces of equipment and they didnt even try to stop it f&@*# idiots. They could’ve stopped it when it first started.
May they feel the rath of our Lord…..super fund me
Classic testosterone fueled dumb asses.
Call fish and game, they just polluted the stream and river. If a miner did this he’d never see the light of day again..
And all that sediment to cover more trout and salmon spawning
grounds!
Seeking super fund money?
Toxic heavy metals in all the farms down stream. They got away with contaminating a major water supply.
Can you say SABOTAGE!!?
#ThanksObama
What causes this? Why was the water in the mountain? Is this someone’s idiotic enormous mistake or was it an accident? I know nothing of mining.