As if it isn't already bad enough that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agents caused a major toxic spill, now comes word that the agency may be suppressing data about the effects of the spill.
The agency has already been accused of coercing the Gold King mine owner to grant the EPA access to the mine and failing to check the water pressure behind the mine when it began removing debris from the portal, reported RT.
On Friday, Breitbart News followed up on these accusations and presented eight questions to the EPA regarding the pollutant levels and exfiltration rates at the Gold King mine and the Red and Bonita mine during the period before and after the Aug. 5 spill into the Cement Creek and Animas River in Colorado:
1. What was the rate of exfiltration in GPM (gallons per minute) from the Gold King portal before the spill?
2. What is it now?
3. What was the rate of exfiltration in GPM from the Red-Bonita portal before the spill ?
4. What is it now?
5. What was the PPM (parts per million) for arsenic, cadmium, lead and copper in the exfiltrating water from the Gold King portal before the spill?
6. What is it now?
7. What was the PPM for arsenic, cadmium, lead and copper in the exfiltrating water from the Red-Bonita portal before the spill?
8. What is it now?
The EPA failed to respond to any of the questions by its Monday evening deadline, a move Dave Taylor deemed troublesome. He is the retired geologist who allegedly predicted the EPA project that caused the toxic spill would "fail in seven to 120 days."
"These are simple questions with simple answers that they undoubtedly have at their fingertips. If not, then there is something they don't want us to know," Taylor said. "Forget about what happened during the spill. Comparing this before and after information will tell us EXACTLY what has occurred and what changes the spill may have caused."
In an article published last week in the Wall Street Journal, it was revealed that Environmental Restoration LLC, an outside contractor, was responsible for the spill and not the EPA itself. They refer to government documents indicating that the contractor was trying to stop wastewater at the time of the breach and that officials were on-site at the time.
The group allegedly signed a confidentialy agreement with the EPA which prevents it from going into any details about the spill. If the EPA is bound by a similar agreement, then that might explain why the agency has been so quiet about the incident. But, of course, the only ones who knows this are the two groups in question.
