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Related: About this forumEPA Blocked, Then Flipped & Supported Plan To Inject Uranium Mine Waste Into Goliad, TX Aquifer
When Uranium Energy Corp. sought permission to launch a large-scale mining project in Goliad County, Texas, it seemed as if the Environmental Protection Agency would stand in its way.
To get the ore out of the ground, the company needed a permit to pollute a pristine supply of underground drinking water in an area already parched by drought.
Further, EPA scientists feared that radioactive contaminants would flow from the mining site into water wells used by nearby homes. Uranium Energy said the pollution would remain contained, but resisted doing the advanced scientifictesting and modeling the government asked for to prove it.
The plan appeared to be dead on arrival until late 2011, when Uranium Energy hired Heather Podesta, a lobbyist and prolific Democratic fundraiser whose pull with the Obama administration prompted The Washington Post to name her the Capitols latest It girl. Podesta -- the sister-in-law of John Podesta, who co-chaired President Obamas transition team -- appealed directly to the EPAs second in command, Bob Perciasepe, pressing the agencys highest-level administrators to get directly involved and bring the agencys local staff in Texas back to the table to reconsider their position, according to emails obtained by ProPublica through the Freedom of Information Act.
EDIT
http://www.propublica.org/article/after-a-powerful-lobbyist-intervenes-epa-reverses-stance-on-polluting-texas
Ian David
(69,059 posts)Nihil
(13,508 posts)> The plan appeared to be dead on arrival until late 2011, when Uranium Energy hired Heather Podesta,
> a lobbyist and prolific Democratic fundraiser whose pull with the Obama administration prompted
> The Washington Post to name her the Capitols latest It girl. Podesta -- the sister-in-law of John
> Podesta, who co-chaired President Obamas transition team -- appealed directly to the EPAs second
> in command, Bob Perciasepe, pressing the agencys highest-level administrators to get directly
> involved and bring the agencys local staff in Texas back to the table to reconsider their position
I'm sure I remember some politician bullshitting about how there would some kind of "Change",
some chance for "Hope" if only he could get elected ...
Wonder what that unremarkable charlatan's name was?
Or how he managed to prove the old Daily Mirror adage true not once but twice more?
http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article1412958.ece/ALTERNATES/s927b/Daily%252BMirror%252Bfront%252Bpage%252B-%252BBush%252Breelected%252B
wtmusic
(39,166 posts)Can we just stop injecting shit into the earth, with no idea of where it will end up?
onedit: the proposal doesn't include "injecting mine waste"