NEVADA MINE SUFFERS FROM "OBAMA COMPLEX"

It’s very obvious to any observer that the President does not like it when anyone challenges his position or knowledge on anything; he is the consummate authoritarian. When he says his programs saved 2,000,000 jobs last year, you can take that to the bank. (The bank isn’t going to give you anything for it, but you can take it there.) If you ask him to prove it, he points to his ARA website. If you point out that his website claims jobs saved or produced in Congressional Districts that don’t exist, he comes back with a glower and “Figures don’t really mean anything, anyway.” 

In Nevada, in the nice, small rural farming town of Yerington, there is an old open-pit copper mine. For years, now, the Yerington Paiute Tribe has been concerned about the probability that chemical residues and heavy metals from the mine have been contaminating parts of the Mason Valley, particularly to the North of the site where the reservation is. To make a long story short, there have been several parties involved with ownership responsibilities at the mine over the years, and BPARCO is currently the principal party on the hook for mitigating any environmental problems. 

From 2002 to 2006, the tribe and a rapidly growing number of other concerned citizens put the heat on the EPA, State of Nevada, and BPARCO to determine the full extent and nature of contamination on the site. In 2005, after months of stonewalling, facts proved that there were dangerous amounts of uranium at the facility, some of which had been enriched and dumped in an evaporation pond. At the same time, increasing levels of uranium were being detected in domestic wells to the north of the site. BPARCO stonewalled and insisted that the uranium in the water was not coming from the mine site.
So, EPA was left with no choice but to have test wells drilled and monitored while wary residents waited and worried. Four years later, results of the testing seem to confirm that uranium from the mine site has reached groundwater. Once again, BPARCO is stonewalling, saying there is no evidence that the uranium in domestic wells to the north of the site is the same uranium in the groundwater by the mine. 

So, the problems at the Yerington Mine, problems that are very likely adversely affecting the health of citizens living to the north of the mine, get spinned and diverted much in the same way that Obama spins and diverts… like Muhammad Ali in the ring. And, the problems that Obama spins and diverts are problems that are affecting Americans all over the country. For more information on the Yerington Anaconda Mine debacle, go to www.yamsite.info

Obama plays Americans like dummies. “We need to get people to work. I saved 2,000,000 million jobs last year.” “I agree that we can’t continue to have these runaway budget deficits. I need an extra $1.5 trillion next year.” BPARCO and some of the Yerington and Lyon County leaders have been “Progressives” just like Obama, and playing the residents of Mason Valley as being dummies. The story has progressed, from early 2003 to now, as follows: “There is no uranium on the mine site. The uranium on the mine site is naturally occurring and of no risk. The elevated levels of uranium on the mine site are isolated and pose no hazard to the general public. There is no uranium in the groundwater. The uranium in the groundwater is naturally occurring and not connected to the mine. The uranium that has gotten into the groundwater below and immediately to the north of the mine site is not connected to the uranium that is in the groundwater by houses and farms to the north of the site; that uranium is naturally occurring.” Seven years have gone by while residents have been drinking water from their wells. Maybe they should hold KSM’s terrorist trial in the evaporation pond where they dumped the yellowcake? 

Transparency? You know about those secret meetings going on in the back rooms of the Capitol, the discussions that were supposed to be broadcast on C-Span as Obama promised would happen? There is a lot of back room discussion about the mine site in Yerington, Nevada.
See all of the similarities? Well, here’s another one to roll around in your inquisitive mind. Guess who has spent a helluva lot of time in Washington, D.C. and spent a helluva lot of time in Yerington in his early days, and who was really steaming with energy on trying to get the mine site cleaned up six years ago when he was running for reelection? Harry Reid. 

Sorry to disappoint all of the players in this posting but, we’re not really as dumb as they make us out to be, are we? And, we’re not to blame for this kind of deceit and disservice to America and Yerington either, are we?