Thread: Thousands of old mines pollute Colorado waters, with no help in sight

Under the Clean Water Act, parties who get involved at abandoned mines and accidentally make matters worse — even over the short term — could be vulnerable to federal prosecution for polluting waterways without a permit.

Obama administration officials two years ago promised to break gridlock on this issue, spurring a legislative fix to enable "good Samaritan" cleanups and devoting "significant resources" for watershed restoration.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last week acknowledged there is still gridlock and that more must be done to deal with tens of thousands of leaking abandoned mines nationwide.

"There's a significant lack of funding to be able to move forward at the moment, but we remain committed to the proposition that these abandoned mines need to be cleaned up," Salazar said in an interview.

This is the absurdity and hazards of an ignorant Congress and incompetent governmental environmental agencies. Instead of being responsible, instead of focusing on actual clean-ups, instead of developing techniques and strategies using engineers and scientists to take corrective action, instead of wanting to Make America Great Again, they just focus on lawyers, bureaucrats, fines and prosecutions to sell a form of fear that paralyzed our once great active nation into an inactive coma of status quo.

We are the nation that used to DARE TO DO! Now we fear action because some private lawyer might sue us or some government lawyer might prosecute us for taking it

Well, TRUMP IS GOING TO FIX THIS CRAP, and he's going to fix it FAST.