Friday Not So Funny – EPA's epic Gold King mine blunder on video, complete with a WTF moment

Readers may recall that the EPA disappeared photos of the Gold King mine disaster from their web page. Perhaps they got just a bit burnt from the public backlash to that.

From YouTube, (h/t to Ryan Maue) EPA releases Gold King Mine blowout footage.

Gotta love the comments from the audio such as:

‘Get outta here?!… What do we do now?’

On September 2, 2015 EPA posted the following edited footage filmed by EPA contractors of the Gold King Mine blowout of August 5, 2015.

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TomR,Worc,Ma,USA
September 13, 2015 9:53 am

But … but …… but ……… what about the Snail Darters?!?!?

Greg Cavanagh
September 13, 2015 1:00 pm

Whoever filmed this, a big thank you. Whoever posted this on utube, a huge THANK YOU. There must be a lot more footage, and a lot of paper trail. I hope this goes to court and gets a thorough going over.
This is epic, and was entirely predictable.
If you’re digging in the side of a hill looking for what? water? what were you going to do if you found some?

Luca Siciliano
September 17, 2015 4:01 pm

Alternative interpretation: too much tailings material; faked the accident.

September 23, 2015 12:00 pm

Reblogged this on The Arts Mechanical and commented:
How to screw up by the numbers.