Sorry for my absence, had to fill lots of paperwork to return to work on the 21st.
So I guess I'll address each on of these separately.
Anything from the EPA is suspect and has been for a long time. They did this to themselves over the whole Sackett vs. EPA thing and many other things. So instead of working with the industry they dropped a bunch of regulations that pushed smelting out of country where there are no pollution controls.
Wonder how the smelter right across the border in Mexico is doing on pollution control?
well..sorry for being snippy..i entered this thread since you waved the cape...then had to endure some nonsense.
I have no control over the republic of mexico...or i'd begin with their immigration laws.
tbere is a cement plant here in Clarkdale...the community welcomed it, since a few hundred jobs would be created...big mistake.
besides the fairly regular tipping the full dual trailered trucks over on their sides in traffic...there has been another unrecognized event occurring...no, not the emmissions from the plant, not the strip mining of material off the black hills...
the blasting is dislocating limestone over hangs containing native American ruins....these adobe/stone stuccoed structures have endured a thousand years of unmolested abandon.
now, I have a photograph or two on my profile...feel free...notice the triangle shaped chunks of stone that have falled, and destroyed the ruin contained underneath.
sad...nothing to be done...progress.
in high school, I had to endure the daily smelter event...the change of direction in the wind...the community sits in the narrow pass between 1,800ft above sea level, and 4,000ft abs within two miles...so the smelter smoke went down hill following the cold air flows...into phoenix, where the entire state whined about being poisoned with sulfur dioxide...fair call...
and then the warm valley air flow would send the smoke up hill...threw the narrow pass, and in passing the entire high school...the solution? open windows on both sides of the school, so that beautiful yellow smoke would just pass on threw...
this is not EPA research...it is my own...I do fantastic research...
I will even admit, that the most serious event in the ecological stability of the southwest was the moment cortez unloaded his sheep, cattle and horse into a stable ecological environment...
but, to make grand statements how mining has NO effect upon the environment....well just take a ride out to ray mines division in Kearny...
most people don't realize ariona has two grand canyons...one man made.
