Why should Sarah worry about poisoning Alaska's lakes? When she's out in the wilds shooting wolves from her helicopter she only drinks bottled water from that lake in nearby Russia. You know. Lake Stolichnaya.
cowboyneok
· 5 months ago
bwahahaaa! good one, Ritorna.
psychodrew
· 5 months ago
We're talking about a woman who thinks that the earth is 6000 years old.
Zorba
· 5 months ago
And, after all, if you believe that "The End Times" are coming fairly soon, why worry about how much pollution we cause here on earth? These types think they're going to be "Raptured" up to heaven any day now. (Can't happen soon enough for me- "rapture" their asses outta here, and the rest of us can go on to make the world a better, more civilized- and more civil- place.)
benb
· 5 months ago
Palin wants to live in a toilet.
OperationCounterstrike
· 5 months ago
It turns on the meaning of "Fill material." Purely a technical question. I'm not a lawyer but I don't think chemical waste is "fill material". It's not the Court's fault. It's the legislators' fault.
Why isn't there a law against ANYTHING that kills all the fish in a 23-acre lake??? Or is that claim contested?
Griffon
· 5 months ago
1 moneyed corporation gains sway to compromise a thousand years of wildlife and a thousand generations; reducing a verdant and vital sanctum to their personal corporate toilet.
"Most of the evil that is done in the modern world is done because of a mortgage. It would really be-- the world would be a better place if everyone just rented." ~ Nick Naylor relating the 'Yuppie Nuremberg Defense' in "Thank You For Smoking"
An_American_Karol
· 5 months ago
If the people of Alaska are happy with this governor, they really are as dumb as a box of rocks.
SD_Dave
· 5 months ago
And they bitch about liberals promoting "activist judges." Oh well, at least now she will have something in common with the lake, they will now be "toxic waste dumps."
offspring
· 5 months ago
I am actually very happy about this, why? Well the same people that think this is a great idea dont understand logic very well, most rural alaska operates on what? Ground wells. The chemicals and heavy metals that are used in mining go into lake, then fish eat, the people eat fish, the water goes deep into what? The water table. Now for all the alaska smart ones the water table isnt the thing you put next to the water bed, it is where your water comes from, and there isnt a magical buffer from the lake shore to keep in isolated so it spreads, and spreads, then animals drink water, then idiots eat the animals, then three legged babies are born, and disease and thinning of the human herd. But hey maybe the jobs this creates will give you great health benefits to cover the cancer you get.
Name
· 5 months ago
This ruling is really really bad. It allows the EPA to defer to the Army Corp in defining mine hazardous waste as a "fill" material if it is dumped into a closed basin lake. There are literally tens of thousands of closed basin lakes all over the U.S. that now can be considered places for mining companies to dump hazardous waste. It shows you how far right the court has become on environmental law rulings.
anonone
· 5 months ago
Those pesky environmentalists.
Gridlock
· 5 months ago
how the fuck is that RESPONSIBLE
BeccaMorn
· 5 months ago
Gawd, why the frack does it have to be dumped INTO the lake?! Why is not "sequestered somewhere near the mine" not good enough? No, they have to dump the waste into the lake where they know it'll kill everything in it, turning said lake into a festering toxic cesspool?
I know -- I read "Name"'s response, but that doesn't even come close to making any kind of rational sense.
Ah, just answered my own question. 'Rational'. These neo-galtians aren't rational by any standard save that of "rape the Earth, I got mine".
TheAngryFag
· 5 months ago
Harvest the dead fish and send them to Palin
KerrynowCampau
· 5 months ago
Don't worry God will clean it up and re stock it with fish
cowboyneok
· 5 months ago
She probably called her good buddy, Senator Jim Inhofe, down here in Oklahoma and asked him about the Tar Creek Super Fund:
Only Sarah Palin wouldn't recognize the irony of using the word "green" in this context. She must have just crawled out from under a rock. Or maybe she did it on purpose. What an idiot...
ricardotoronto
· 5 months ago
Arsenic is the main chemical byproduct used in gold production. Not only will it quickly kill all the fish and every other life form but it will seep into the groundwater and every other lake, stream and river that are interconnected killing everything in it's path. Gold companies know this, governments usually do not.
Matt
· 5 months ago
Every dead fish should be skimmed and put on her front lawn. ALL of them. This is insanity.
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Why isn't there a law against ANYTHING that kills all the fish in a 23-acre lake??? Or is that claim contested?
"Most of the evil that is done in the modern world is done because of a mortgage. It would really be-- the world would be a better place if everyone just rented." ~ Nick Naylor relating the 'Yuppie Nuremberg Defense' in "Thank You For Smoking"
I know -- I read "Name"'s response, but that doesn't even come close to making any kind of rational sense.
Ah, just answered my own question. 'Rational'. These neo-galtians aren't rational by any standard save that of "rape the Earth, I got mine".
God will clean it up and re stock it with fish
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2006SC/finalprogram/a...
Republicans love letting crap like that happen, and then try to claim superhero status when the government has to come behind and try to clean it up.
/facepalm
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/19/pa...