| CNN Scores With "Scorched Earth" |
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| Written by Samantha Hulkower | |
| Sunday, 24 February 2008 | |
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Wow, so we just watched CNN's "special investigation" on the environment and came away kind of speechless. Forgive us for being skeptical going in, but the melodramatic-ominous-music promos we kept seeing for "Broken Government: Scorched Earth" were cringe-inducing. It still wasn't enough to stop us from watching the one-hour special, with topics ranging from pollution to censoring scientists to clean energy. To our surprise, it ended up being one of the most comprehensive and thoughtful environmental pieces we've seen on any news channel for a long time.
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  written by hm, February 24, 2008
the dirt during rain and wind events into the dump's unlined storm ponds to likely flow down the documented Sunland (park) surface fault (that extends along sunland park drive and then the edge of the dump) into the aquifer below. (A whole pile of that waste sits up at Coyote Canyon in Navajo N.M. land, stockpiled by EPA Region 6).
It is time that the community asked what EPA Region 6 is hiding, what Asarco is hiding --- what all these powerful concerns are hiding from us about what ASARCO poisoned us with. Has anyone seen a dioxin report on the Paso del Norte region? No. Has anyone seen a comprehensive beta radiation level plot graphed of our region? No. Has anyone seen a comprehensive chemical analysis of the Asarco pond-dirt that Asarco felt was bad enough that they railed it all the way back to Corpus Christi? No. What about a PCB report/chemical analysis? No. Can the EPA water lab find the chemical report and records for when they came out here in 2001 to try to duplicate Rio Grande samples from an unpublished UTEP masters thesis (running a mini double membrane osmosis treatment system at the Canal street station)? NO. Are we and have we been sacrificed? YES. The powers that be must think that we are ignorant stupid people down here in El Paso to sit idly by and simply ask for the smelter to be CLOSED without asking WHAT ARE THEY HIDING and WHAT TOXIC WASTE IS HERE?????????? written by hm, February 24, 2008
duplicate Rio Grande samples from an unpublished UTEP masters thesis (running a mini double membrane osmosis treatment system at the Canal street station)? NO.
Are we and have we been sacrificed? YES. The powers that be must think that we are ignorant stupid people down here in El Paso to sit idly by and simply ask for the smelter to be CLOSED without asking WHAT ARE THEY HIDING and WHAT TOXIC WASTE IS HERE?????????? written by Scott Comar, February 25, 2008
Letting ASARCO re-open in El Paso exemplifies the disgraceful nature of the relationship between the TCEQ and special interests.
Let's face it, the Board,and the Executive Director for the TCEQ,which approved the operating permit, were all Perry appointees; therefore, the leftover residue of the Bush administration. They surely didn't have the best interests of the general public in mind when they approved ASARCO's permit. written by MarkR, February 25, 2008
I tried finding if they are going to replay the piece, but couldn't find it on cnn.com anyone know if they will replay it? I definitely want to see it.
written by Samantha, February 25, 2008
They aired the heck out of it this past weekend, not sure when it will be on again, but here is the transcript: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRA...cd.02.html
written by Devil\'s Advocate, March 09, 2008
I made a video critique of Scorched Earth if you care to watch it.
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Yeah, OK, we can be the change that we want to see in the world. But unless powerful people in powerful positions want to be that change as well, nothing's going to change.
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They are dividing up the company assets, deciding what damages/liabilities they have to still pay for, and NOT DISCUSSING THE ILLEGAL TOXIC WASTE that got into the Paso del Norte soils, air, the Rio Grande and the international Hueco aquifer.
Meanwhile, just several miles up river from the El Paso smelter the 2nd largest N.M. regional dump is renewing a ten year permit -- and its application would allow it to accept (radioactive) Uranium mining and milling waste into that dump. That radioactivity will outlast the dump's liners. That dirt would be blown all over the region, and the isotopes would flow with the dirt during rain and wind events into the dump's unlined storm ponds to likely flow down the documented Sunland (park) surface fault (that extends along sunland park drive and then the edge of the dump) into the aquifer below. (A whole pile of that waste sits up at Coyote Canyon in Navajo N.M. land, stockpiled by EPA Region 6).
It is time that the community asked what EPA Region 6 is hiding, what Asarco is hiding --- what all these powerful concerns are hiding from us about what ASARCO poisoned us with. Has anyone seen a dioxin report on the Paso del Norte region? No. Has anyone seen a comprehensive beta radiation level plot graphed of our region? No. Has anyone seen a comprehensive chemical analysis of the Asarco pond-dirt that Asarco felt was bad enough that they railed it all the way back to Corpus Christi? No. What about a PCB report/chemical analysis? No. Can the EPA water lab find the chemical report and records for when they came out here in 2001 to try to duplicate Rio Grande samples from an unpublished UTEP masters thesis (running a mini double membrane osmosis treatment system at the Canal street station)? NO.
Are we and have we been sacrificed? YES.
The powers that be must think that we are ignorant stupid people down here in El Paso to sit idly by and simply ask for the smelter to be CLOSED without asking WHAT ARE THEY HIDING and WHAT TOXIC WASTE IS HERE??????????