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Photo credit: Matthew Burpee At the junction of the Mantaro and Yauli rivers in Peru, over 12,000 feet up in the Andes, is a small city of about 35,000 people. It is a community built on the mineral wealth of the mountains and exists only to serve the mines and the smelting company that processes [...] Ground water near this former smelting operation in Midvale, Utah is contaminated by the 2.5 million tons of slag, containing dangerous heavy metals like lead, arsenic, chromium, and cadmium. According to the EPA plan, the land will be beautified, but the groundwater will probably remain contaminated. Open this location in Google Earth When I imagine someone sounding the alert that the government has poisoned the masses, I imagine some wacko in the woods somewhere with a stockpile of bottled water in his basement and a high powered telecope perched on a tower to watch for aliens. Not so. The tale of Aspartame is even more chilling, partly [...] “Butte, Montana is no longer a town. It’s a dead zone.” “the iron that built the Chicago skyline… came through this port…” |
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