So instead of making them that polluted the lake clean up their mess, we have the little dutch boy sticking his thumb in the crumbling dam, so that another company (and its rich owners) can escape taking responsibility for their past actions. No-fault corporatocracy...how precious!
It's always socialism for the Jews and capitalism for the serfs.
This is a Superfund sight, a mine that was created in the 1800's and active to this day (changing many hands btw.) This mine supplied most all of the copper in America between then and the 60's or beyond. There wasn't even an understanding of what the future impact would be, and that knowledge wouldn't exist until long after the damage was done.
There is no fix. between the vast tunnel system, and the pit itself, it would cost more money than a few hundred years of maintenance costs to even attempt to fix it. There are tens of thousands of miles of tunnels that feed into the pit, the pit itself has decades of excavation, making the pit larger than many lakes. You would need to drain and clean all the water from the pit and every tunnel branching down a mile underground, then somehow fill it all.
Short of devoting every penny of a year or more of the national budget, decades of work, this site is permanent. So yeah, the "dutch" boy from MT, along with a team of people keep the birds out of the very dangerous lake cheaper than clean up, or a time machine that could stop it from ever happening.
So I just watched the video. Why cant they just cover it. Not drain it, just put a lid on it?
It's over a mile in diameter. They also rely on evaporation as part of maintaining it, the water level rises and falls too often as well. I promise, if it was cheaper to cover it, it would be covered.
The point is that the cost dwarfs all profits that could ever be made from the mine. The taxpayers spend billions to finance millions in profits for some. That's communism.
I don't think you are understanding, the problem exists regardless of the mine being open or not, and that damage was done before we even fathomed the long term effects. It is like 150 years old or some shit, has changed many hands, and everyone responsible for causing the problem has been dead for nearly 100 years.
I agree with your sentiment, but it hardly applies here. It was at one time the largest copper mine in the world, and it is responsible for lighting this nation in the industrial revolution and beyond. A few guys got retarded rich a long time ago from it, but we all benefited from this mine, and now we all pay for it.
... cool informative video though.
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