Update to this story: October 15, 2016. Click HERE
On August 5th, 2015, a “cleanup” team from President Obama’s EPA (yes, the EPA is staffed from top to bottom with Obama appointees) breached a dam at an abandoned mine in Colorado and released an estimated 3 million gallons of water laden with contaminants and heavy metals into a nearby creek. As of this writing on August 13th, President Obama has been completely silent on this event, which may prove to be one of the largest environmental disasters in history. This is in stark contrast to how he immediately reacted to the BP spill in Louisiana, or to his now almost daily 
proclamations on “climate change” being the greatest threat to humanity. Why then the silence from our President, who declared 229 “disasters” in the first 3 years of his Presidency alone? The answer is quite simple actually. First, and most important, this disaster doesn't fit into the "model" of an un-elected EPA run by a Marxist Administration that protects Americans from themselves by instituting a daily growing stack of regulations telling citizens what they can drive, what kind of fuel they can put in what they drive, what they can wear, where they can build a home and what kind of materials they can build it with, what kind of toilet they can have and how much it can flush, what kind of light bulb they can use, whether or not they can have a pond on their property, whether their property is subject to seizure for any variety of spontaneous reasons, where they can work, whether they can work at all if the EPA has shut their industry down, and letting said citizens know that the iron fisted hand of government has their backs and knows what is good for them, even if it does strangle their liberty and freedom to live responsibly. In addition, and not to be ignored is the fact that President Obama is on vacation, and is not to be disturbed while he golfs at Martha’s Vineyard with all of the upper class white people that he always chooses to vacation with, and who he criticizes as the source of American disparity in his daily diatribes. Can I say that in today’s PC charged environment where accusations of racism and bigotry lurk around every corner? The extremely *rich* white people, it might be added. Home to the Kennedy’s, the Hollywood elite, etc. After all, as he reminds us daily, he is looking out for the poor. But that’s another story for another day.
The Colorado mine disaster continues to unfold with each passing day. Estimates currently put the long term clean up as taking decades, not years. Several States are now involved, and the Navajo nation in particular has been displaced and has declared its own state of emergency. Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye says that farmers have been forced to relocate their cattle from riverbed areas and move them inland. The government has cut off drinking water and irrigation water from the San Juan River.
In an interview, Begaye said that “Relocated farmers now need to buy hay and haul water; others living along the river are forced to drive up to 200 miles to find bottled water. People with an average salary of $12,000 are expending dollars on things that they wouldn't have.”
But here’s the kicker: Begaye has ordered the EPA to stop handing out Standard Form 95’s to Navajo citizens. What is Standard Form 95 and why is the EPA handing it out to Navajo citizens, many of whom do not even speak English and can’t comprehend the legal terms of the form? Standard Form 95 effectively waives an individual’s right to sue the EPA for any future damages caused by the spill into the Animas River last week. Begaye says that EPA officials are already trying to preempt any future lawsuits by taking advantage of Navajo citizens.
“My interpretation as president of the Navajo Nation is the EPA is trying to minimize the amount of compensation that the people deserve,” said Begaye. “They want to close these cases and they don’t want more compensation to come later.” The EPA says that the water contains lead, arsenic, cadmium and other heavy metals but is still mum on what impact this spill will have in the future on users downstream, such as the Navajo Nation. On Wednesday, August 12th, Begaye said he has yet to receive a call from President Barack Obama. “It seems like the Obama administration just closed their doors and disappeared,” he said.
And now……..for the most intriguing question of all. Did the EPA intentionally cause this breach in order to secure Superfund money and prevent all future mine development in the area? This might sound like something issued from the Tin Foil Hat Society and will certainly be 
dismissed as such by the Left until you read a letter to the editors (see below) of both the Silverton Standard and The Miner local newspapers in Colorado; (7/30/2015) published a week before the disaster occurred. The letter was from retired geologist Dave Taylor of Farmington New Mexico, and in this letter Mr. Taylor goes into great detail to explain how the EPA would purposely create this very scenario in order to secure that Superfund money. I find the concept of such an idea to be stunning. There was a time, not so long ago, when entertaining such an idea would have been ridiculous, at least for me. After 6 years of a lawless Administration however, I'm just not so certain of these things anymore.
Does the government, and in particular the EPA have as its main interest the protection of the American people, or do its interests lie in expanding its own power and control? As the EPA Chief said to the media this week, this incident was “Tragic and Very Unfortunate”. True on both accounts
