#2 2013-08-11 12:43:51
1) The parents must have been desperate to get away from the environment that was hurting their children; I guess that is why they signed such a ridiculous settlement agreement.
2) Good luck to the mining company enforcing this bullshit once the children reach the age of majority.
3) This is all the proof anyone will ever need (not that there isn't metric tons of proof already) that the mining industry and their supporters do not give shit one about human rights or human lives.
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#4 2013-08-11 17:46:22
Emmeran wrote:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/11/texas-tragedy-ample-oil-no-water
No one here would even give a shit if it weren't for the severe drought in most of Texas.
The majority of us do not get our water from below the ground so it's "out of sight, out of mind."
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#5 2013-08-12 09:26:12
Not sure if I ever mentioned it here, but a friend works for USGS. He told me it would be highly inadvisable to live anywhere west of the Mississippi due to the inability of existing groundwater supplies and aquifers to sustain the current population, never mind any projected growth.....
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#6 2013-08-12 09:36:33
Well growth is the entire problem isn't it?
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#7 2013-08-12 18:27:01
Emmeran wrote:
Well growth is the entire problem isn't it?
Yeah. I want to live just long enough to see Texas and Oklahoma begin "The Great Red River Shoot-Out" for real, instead of just in football.
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#8 2013-08-12 22:48:43
XregnaR wrote:
Not sure if I ever mentioned it here, but a friend works for USGS. He told me it would be highly inadvisable to live anywhere west of the Mississippi due to the inability of existing groundwater supplies and aquifers to sustain the current population, never mind any projected growth.....
Obviously they have never been to the NW.
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#9 2013-08-13 18:58:39
Dmtdust wrote:
XregnaR wrote:
Not sure if I ever mentioned it here, but a friend works for USGS. He told me it would be highly inadvisable to live anywhere west of the Mississippi due to the inability of existing groundwater supplies and aquifers to sustain the current population, never mind any projected growth.....
Obviously they have never been to the NW.
It never stops raining where Dusty lives. You don't need ground water, just a bucket outside on the porch. We also have plenty of water here in Upstate California, but the SoCalifornicators will steal it to keep their golf courses green.
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