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  1. oh- puh-leeze. the horrible constraints of the EPA….
    go ahead and try to pass the buck all you want. But this was the failure of profit motivated corporation(s) taking its chances with safety of the employees, the environment and livilihood of thousands of people.
    You can try that propoganda on the wing-nut crowd but not on anyone with at least 1/2 a brain.

  2. Yeah, right, benson. Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. But it’s also the case that if the whack-os didn’t have guns they’d have nothing to shoot so take the effing guns out of their hands! (To put it plainly, if deep wells were forbidden this wouldn’t’ve happened.)

  3. Benson, what IS the role of the Army Corp of Engineers? One of the best books I ever read was “Rising Tide”. It was the best history book I ever read and dealt with the huge flood in the Mississipi Delta in 1927, which was a real turning event in the history of the south in the extended post-Reconstruction era, the black migration north, big government solutions to disasters (Hoover) GREAT BOOK!

    Anyway, one of the Chapters dealt with the Army Corps of Engineers and its role in deciding how to deal with the River/levys/dredging. The book claimed that their scientific mistakes in deciding to dredge the river led to the conditions which led to flooding and resulting massive destruction in the area during a time of extraordinary rains. Anyway, that assumed that Army Corp has a role in doing work on rivers (dams?).

    What do they do now?

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