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[Leonel]

Superfund cleanup in Idaho draws local opposition

KELLOGG, Idaho – People who live around a toxic former silver mining complex in Idaho have a message for federal environmental officials who want to expand a lengthy cleanup effort: Go home, your help is no longer wanted.

Despite the government's best intentions, some locals think a prolonged federal presence will scare away businesses by sending a message that the Silver Valley is a dangerous place to live. Residents and politicians in this conservative region also believe it's a waste of taxpayer dollars and that the real intention of the government is to shut down the remaining mines.

"They've got their environmental science degree from some place like Berkeley and they drive their Prius to the back hills of Idaho and here are a bunch of miners and they want to do what they think is best for us," said attorney James McMillan.

The Environmental Protection Agency has spent nearly 20 years cleaning up the Superfund site in Kellogg that was once one of the most-polluted places in the country, with arsenic and lead stripping the hillsides of vegetation and poisoning the blood of children.

The cleanup efforts have greened the mountains and improved human health, although pollution still exists. Some streams and rivers are so polluted that stretches have no aquatic life, and migrating swans that land on them die.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100813/ap_on_bi_ge/us_silver_valley_cleanup

It appears we're too late to save the residents from lead poisoning.

 

[useless]

The disease of Libertarianism has destroyed their sanity.

 

[dutchfire]

Nah, I think the lead and arsenic did that.

 

[Joecoolyo]

I'm pretty sure businesses won't open there if the water if poisoned...

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Only in America

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Cool. Redirect those tax dollars elsewhere then.

 

[Dachs]

Only in America

There's always one.

 

[Lord of Elves]

It was the lead and cyanide that made them think this was a good idea.

 

[Cutlass]

Take away all their children if they want to raise them on a superfund site.

 

[emzie]

If water didn't have this tendency, to you know, move, I'd be in favour of leaving idiots to their fate.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

i'll take an environmental science degree from berkeley and a prius over lead poisoning anyday.

feds should laugh, then get back to work.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Some congressman should propose that Kellogg, Idaho become the next high-level nuclear waste repository. They can store it in abandoned Hummers.

 

[DJNotNice]

That quote cracked me up. I'm just disappointed he didn't add in "latte-sucking limousine liberals" somewhere.

 

[Cheetah]

"They've got their environmental science degree from some place like Berkeley and they drive their Prius to the back hills of Idaho and here are a bunch of miners and they want to do what they think is best for us," said attorney James McMillan.