{"id":10969,"date":"2015-08-13T06:39:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T11:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10969"},"modified":"2015-08-13T06:42:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T11:42:49","slug":"did-the-epa-intentionally-poison-animas-river-to-secure-superfund-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10969","title":{"rendered":"Did The EPA Intentionally Poison Animas River To Secure SuperFund Money?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-08-12\/did-epa-intentionally-poison-animas-river-secure-superfund-money\" target=\"_blank\">Did The EPA Intentionally Poison Animas River To Secure SuperFund Money?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A week before\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-08-10\/epa-admits-spilling-millions-gallons-toxic-waste-colorado-river-stunning-aerial-foot\">The EPA disastrously leaked millions of gallons of toxic waste into The Animas River in Colorado<\/a>, this letter to the editor was published in The Silverton Standard &amp; The Miner local newspaper, authored by a retired geologist\u00a0<strong>detailing verbatim, how EPA would foul the Animas River on purpose in order to secure superfund money<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\">&#8220;But\u00a0<strong>make no mistake, within seven days, all of the 500gpm flow will return to Cememnt Creek. Contamination may actually increase&#8230; The &#8220;grand experiment&#8221; in my opinion will fail.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>And guess what [EPA&#8217;s] Mr. Hestmark will say then?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gee, &#8220;Plan A&#8221; didn&#8217;t work so I guess we will have to build a treat\u00acment plant at a cost to taxpayers of $100 million to $500 million (who knows).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reading between the lines, I believe that has been the EPA&#8217;s plan all along&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2015\/08\/20150812_EPA_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1302\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sound like something a government entity would do? Just ask Lois Lerner&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As we concluded previously,<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did The EPA Intentionally Poison Animas River To Secure SuperFund Money? A week before\u00a0The EPA disastrously leaked millions of gallons of toxic waste into The Animas River in Colorado, this letter to the editor was published in The Silverton Standard &amp; The Miner local newspaper, authored by a retired geologist\u00a0detailing verbatim, how EPA would foul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8027,8049,3185,1470,379,8050,1215,4845,4318],"class_list":["post-10969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-animas-river","tag-chemical-spill","tag-environmental-protection-agency","tag-epa","tag-government","tag-superfund-money","tag-toxins","tag-water-contamination","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10970,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10969\/revisions\/10970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}