Remember BP's Tony Hayward?

[The Straight Story]

Remember BP's Tony Hayward? He's trying to get his life back in northern Minnesota


Wait a minute! Wasn't that what British Petroleum's Tony Hayward said to the press as he surveyed the ruin caused by the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the largest oil spill in U.S. history? Tony just wanted his life back. Gaffes like that ended his leadership of BP. So they gave him about $4 million to go away. Maybe he will end up in Minnesota's north country. You think I'm kidding? Read on.

Tony Hayward has been recently hired by a company called Glencore. Don't feel bad if you haven't heard of it. It has been trying for years to be invisible to the naked eye. It was briefly in the news back in the Clinton years when its founder, Marc Rich, violated federal law by trading oil with Iran and went on the FBI's most wanted list. Things cooled off fairly quickly because President Clinton pardoned Rich as Bill was on the way out of the White House door. Rich was, well, rich. He gave money to the Clinton campaign. I'm not saying. I'm just saying.

Now Glencore is putting its money in northern Minnesota. It is has just become the principal investor in a mining operation planned for Hoyt Lakes.

http://www.minnpost.com/donshelby/2011/07/26/30314/remember_bps_tony_hayward_hes_trying_to_get_his_life_back_in_northern_minnesota

[DJ13]

1. Will his yacht fit on the lakes?

[SoCalDem]

2. I suggest renaming it..Edmund Fitzgerald has a nice ring to it

:evilgrin:

[Evasporque]

4. Lake SUperior for sure...nt

[iwishiwas]

3. Hayward has been hired by Glencore as the executive expert in charge of environment and safety.

;(

[grntuscarora]

10. OMG i thought you were kidding

then checked the link. Executive expert in charge of environment and safety--- incredible. The Onion couldn't have dreamed this one up.
Hayward should be in jail, instead he's finding new ecosystems to destroy :mad:

[iwishiwas]

11. I should have put it in quotes. yes, -he will destroy as money

he can gather will be his bottom line.

[geardaddy]

5. I guess they had to wait to get rid of Oberstar as US Rep

and get Asscrack Cravaak in there.

[jwirr]

12. I love your name for the idiot. Can I use it?

[geardaddy]

15. Use it far and wide, my sister.

[geardaddy]

6. The most important thing in the article is what kind of mining it is.

Hardrock sulfide mining
Iron mining and northern Minnesota have gone hand in glove for a century. But the proposed PolyMet mine in Hoyt Lakes is a different animal. It is called hardrock sulfide mining. It will be going after copper and nickel and precious metals. It promises jobs in a job-starved part of our state. But there are two things you should know about hardrock sulfide mining. The first thing is that the Environmental Protection Agency says hardrock mining generates more toxic waste than any other sector of the U.S. economy. The second thing you should know is that the history of this sort of mining shows that when the metals run out, the companies decamp. The real pollution starts after they leave with the winnings, go broke, or sell out.

Across the country, hardrock mine operations have left state taxpayers holding the bag. The cost of the cleanup falls primarily on folks who had nothing to do with the pollution. After a bad experience, our neighbor Wisconsin made a rule that states that if any company wants to hardrock mine, it has to put up a bond that will cover the expense of cleaning up the mess the company is sure to leave behind.

[nebenaube]

8. Don't worry, our 'dear leader' will repeal that law very soon! n/t

[geardaddy]

9. Which "dear leader" are you talking about?

[nebenaube]

19. Gov. Scotty "I got kicked out of College" Walker

The context of the discussion had expanded to mentioning Wisconsin Environmental Laws; did it not?

[geardaddy]

21. Yes, I caught that the second time I read through the article.

Thanks!

Well, we have a decent gov. Mark Dayton, so hopefully this shit won't hit until the Repub-controlled legislature gets voted out next year.

[jwirr]

13. Thank you for the info - do you know if our environmental groups up here

know about this? What if anything are they doing about it?

[geardaddy]

16. I don't.

This is the first I've heard of it.

[Odin2005]

23. The fucks want to poison our lakes! BASTARDS!

[geardaddy]

25. Spot on, Odin. They are bastards.

These idiots want their money and the health of the area be damned.

[seafan]

7. Tony "BP" Hayward joins principal investing group in northern Minnesota mining operation

Minnesota Post



REUTERS/Toby MelvilleTony Hayward has been hired by Glencore as the executive expert in charge of environment and safety.






Probably because, under cover of the inferno over the debt ceiling, the House GOP is frantically crafting legislation to finish off the EPA.

Tony wants to start digging in Minnesota.

WASHINGTON -- With eight days until the country officially defaults on its debts, likely sparking a worldwide credit crisis, the House of Representatives is busy with legislation aimed at repealing environmental regulations and stymieing conservation efforts.

The Interior and Environmental Protection Agency spending bill for fiscal year 2012 contains policy riders added by panel Republicans to thwart White House-backed initiatives on everything from the EPA's regulation of greenhouse gas emissions to conservation efforts in the Grand Canyon. It would halt new regulations on mountaintop removal mining and prevent the Fish and Wildlife Service from listing new species under the Endangered Species Act.

.....

And what kind of proposed mining is Tony interested in?


From the article:

Hardrock sulfide mining

Iron mining and northern Minnesota have gone hand in glove for a century. But the proposed PolyMet mine in Hoyt Lakes is a different animal. It is called hardrock sulfide mining. It will be going after copper and nickel and precious metals. It promises jobs in a job-starved part of our state. But there are two things you should know about hardrock sulfide mining. The first thing is that the Environmental Protection Agency says hardrock mining generates more toxic waste than any other sector of the U.S. economy. The second thing you should know is that the history of this sort of mining shows that when the metals run out, the companies decamp. The real pollution starts after they leave with the winnings, go broke, or sell out.

Across the country, hardrock mine operations have left state taxpayers holding the bag. The cost of the cleanup falls primarily on folks who had nothing to do with the pollution.

All hell is breaking loose around us.

[TheKentuckian]

14. Putrid. The only good news is he will be local when the shit goes down

So, it'll be easier to be sure he is one of the first against the wall.

[jwirr]

18. Yes, and our NE MN communities are small and educated. We will

know who to blame.

[WhiteTara]

17. Thanks for keeping track of that bastard.

I hope this is fly and mosquito season in northern Minnesota.

[Urban Prairie]

20. The fox again is put in charge of a henhouse, its just too damned ironic for words...n/t

[Odin2005]

22. Jesus Christ, get that twit outta my state!

[swilton]

24. Lucky Minnesotans

:sarcasm:

[Urban Prairie]

26. Wealthy corporate criminals just keep landing on their feet

After being indirectly responsible for one of the worst disasters in US environmental history, and being painted as a pariah by the residents of the Gulf Coast, who will be affected by the disaster for decades to come, (along with many others in the US who don't) a year later, this crook not only is free and not in jail, but instead gets yet another cushy executive job in a similar type of operation, raping the planet of its natural resources, and further poisoning the environment and ecology in the process, albeit in a smaller area.

I though that Hayward was going to go away to some shangri-la complex that he was building an ocean away, in an effort to "get his life back" but nooo, he is going to get more than just his life back, he is going to be able to rake in even more cash by being hired as the executive expert in charge of environment and safety. I suppose that if a company wants to perform an operation called hardrock sulfide mining, that has the potential, capability, and record of doing severe environmental damage, who better to hire than someone who obviously has vividly demonstrated beyond any doubt that he has the ability to do great harm to people, the environment, and ecology, without shedding even a single tear, and without any regrets or possessing such human "flaws" like compassion, sympathy, and remorse?