Tuesday, May 29, 2012
"Leaked Emails Show ‘Grossly Overestimated’ Environmental Report to Back Up Mining Ban"
Is it any wonder why people say the government is broken?
Or is it corrupt? Or incompetent?
America has resources like coal, gas, oil, now uranium, and who knows what else that bureaucrats are denying access, too. It's really sad...
Or is it corrupt? Or incompetent?
America has resources like coal, gas, oil, now uranium, and who knows what else that bureaucrats are denying access, too. It's really sad...
Bridget Johnson brings this story to us at PJmedia.com:
"The emails between National Park Service (NPS) officials include statements such as “my personal and professional opinion is that the potential impacts stated in the DEIS as [sic] grossly overestimated and even then they are minor to negligible” and 'there exists no information we could find that would [suggest] how contamination of park waters might physically occur.
DEIS stands for Draft Environmental Impact Statement, being discussed in the emails by hydrologists. 'The DEIS goes to great lengths in an attempt to establish impacts to water resources from uranium mining. It fails to do so, but instead creates enough confusion and obfuscation of hydrogeologic principles to create the illusion that there could be adverse impacts if uranium mining occurred,' states another email.
The Interior Department announced the 20-year ban on Jan. 9, negating a compromise that had been previously worked out between mining companies and environmental groups. The administration cited the protection of drinking water sources as the reason."
