Don't ya just love the smell of lead in the morning...??
Good video! They certainly got their year's supply of lead exposure that day! Probably about the equivalent of chewing on one lead painted windowsill each....
Ancient history moment - this is the place where Jim Inhofe got over $125 million from the Fed, about 30 years ago, to pay some good buddies of his to go there with bulldozers and push that stuff around some in the name of "remediation" and "clean-up". Stirring up a LOT of that lead dust for the hundreds of residents there to breath for a few months.... As opposed to just doing a buyout of one of the larger superfund pollution sites in the nation, which could have been done for probably about $25 million.
Took a long, long, time - decades...until Brad Henry - to actually get the people bought out and moved out of there! And the state did the biggest part of the buyout. And the cancer rates for residents was dramatically higher than would be expected in a less contaminated environment. Our very own "Love Canal" here in Okrahoma!! Officially called Tar Creek site....
God forbid we should make the companies/industries that make the mess pay for cleaning up their mess! That would be "un-aMurican"....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_Creek_Superfund_siteI’m no fan of Inhofe myself in recent years, but your timeline and recollections suffer from a lack of reality. 30 years ago, Inhofe was still Mayor of Tulsa. After that, he became the first district Congressman from Oklahoma. The Tar Creek Superfund Site sits in District 2. This would have been Synar, Coburn, Carson, and Boren’s domain in the HOR during the last 30 years. it became identified as a Superfund site in 1983. Inhofe entered the Senate in late 1994.
I can find nowhere any credible shred of evidence that Inhofe cronies were used for remediation efforts. This was a project which involved The EPA, DOI, USACE, CEQ, and Federal Highway Administration. In other words, a classic bureaucratic clusterfark.
Here’s a couple of articles worth reading which might clear up some of your bias. The first takes Inhofe to task over his claims of being primarily responsible for the buyout and his initial reluctance to the idea. It also identifies the other local players in the issue and their take on it and his involvement. If you have any sort of
credible source regarding contractors he hand-picked to move chat piles around, feel free to post. I’d love to read it.
http://newsok.com/it-took-a-town-to-find-help-for-tar-creek/article/3269290http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=CommitteeResources.ViewNewsletter&Newsletter_id=65cf8ebf-802a-23ad-4eb7-c2c8b39b72b6&SuppressLayouts=true