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Thu Dec 01, 2011 at 09:49:28 AM MST
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| So we all know Republicans hate regulation, the EPA, FEMA, government workers in general. They somehow trust large corporations to self-regulate and do what's in the public interest without any rules, regulations or laws. And they constantly say regulations will kill jobs when in reality they can create new high-tech jobs within the industries they regulate.
We all also know that their views on regulations are pure, unadulterated bullshit. The latest example is the newly contained leak at the Suncor refinery north of Denver:
Suncor Energy said on Wednesday it has contained a leak of an oily substance near its Commerce City refinery in Colorado that was running into Sand Creek, which joins a river that supplies Denver with water.
The Canadian energy firm said it had not yet identified the source of the leak, but acknowledged it was likely coming from its 93,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery in the area. It said plant operations were unaffected.
The leak comes a month after Colorado's Department of Public Health warned Suncor that it needed to take stricter measures to mitigate contamination that an investigation found was coming from the site and could threaten local water supplies. Even with regulators breathing down their necks, it took them a month to take corrective action.
Republicans like Doug Lamborn would take the regulators away and let oil refineries deal with problems however they saw fit. This proves the fallacy of their free market mantra and that those like Lamborn, who are constantly agitating for fracking and against the EPA, do it for one reason: not to prevent the flow of hazardous materials into our drinking water, but to ensure the flow of campaign money from their Big Energy donors. |
| Zappatero :: Doug Lamborn's fight against the EPA |
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