Toxic-time-bomb spawned two-headed Brown trout in Yellowstone National Park Ecosystem

Posted by danbacher on @ 8:15 pm

It’s official! This is not a fish story. A two-headed wild Brown trout was spawned in the Salt River sub-unit of the upper Snake River drainage watershed, which is within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

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Selenium laden toxic-time bomb triggered by 50-years of Phosphate mining in Northwest U.S.
Experts claim that two-headed trout and dead livestock portend hundreds of years of surface and groundwater contamination.

The toxic mines are within the 350,000 square kilometers of the Western Phosphate Field; located in five-northern tier states, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming. The epicenter of the time-bomb is in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest in Southeastern Idaho and bordering western Wyoming.

Fishing and wildlife enthusiasts expressed concern this is reminiscent of Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge ecological selenium-laden time bomb that went off in California's San Joaquin Valley ... read more

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Two-headed fish from selenium poisoning? They're here!!

Submitted by Lloyd Carter on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 16:30.

The news has broken that selenium from phosphate mining in Idaho has triggered grotesque mutations in fish in Idaho creeks, notably two-headed fish.  This story was first broken by Patrick Porgans, a California State Water Resources Control Board watchdog and top notch investigator.  He had been sitting on the story for months in order to protect his sources.  Porgan's detailed report can be found at his website: http://www.planetarysolutionaires.org./

A Reuters News Service article on the two-headed fish, reprinted at the Scientific American magazine website, can also  be found at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=idaho-mine-understates-impact-on-fi

There is growing evidence that the Idaho fish deformities have been covered up for some time by the phosphate fertilizer industry, evoking memories of the coverup at the Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge in 1983 when Interior Department officials kept quiet news that selenium-caused deformities in bird embryos had been discovered in Westlands Water District farm drainage water.  Impacts on fisheries have also been documented in creeks near coal mining operations in recent years. Meanwhile, 30 years after the Kesterson selenium discoveries, the federal government still has not established selenium safety standards for aquatic and riparian habitats.  And, of course, it was 1949 when famed U.S. Geological Survey superscientist David Love warned in a memo that irrigation of high selenium soils in the American West could trigger a massive environmental crisis.  Love's warning was ignored.
We shall keep an eye on this unfolding disaster.

Idaho mine understates impact on fish deformities: U.S.

By Laura Zuckerman

SALMON, Idaho | Fri Feb 3, 2012 9:13pm GMT

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Selenium contamination from a phosphate mine in southeastern Idaho is linked to fish deformities such as two-headed trout, and the problem would worsen if discharge limits were eased, a new government report found.

The findings come as Smoky Canyon Mine, run by the J.R. Simplot Company near the Wyoming border, is asking the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality to relax restrictions on the amount of selenium that the mine may drain into tributaries of the Snake River, a world-class trout stream.http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/02/03/us-mining-idaho-idUKTRE8121TU20120203

Toxic-time-bomb spawned two-headed Brown trout in Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

By Patrick Porgans
Planetary Solutionsist

Selenium laden toxic-time bomb triggered by 50-years of Phosphate mining in Northwest U.S. Experts claim two-headed trout and dead livestock portend hundreds of years of surface and groundwater contamination.

The toxic mines are within the 350,000 square kilometers of the Western Phosphate Field; located in five-northern tier states, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming. The epicenter of the time-bomb is in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest in Southeastern Idaho and bordering western Wyoming.

It’s official! This is not a fish story. The two-headed wild Brown trout depicted in the photographs, spawned in the Salt River sub-unit of the upper Snake River drainage watershed, which is within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
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Paying Their Fair Share of Taxes

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“Why is FedEx not paying its fair share?” That’s what more than 400 activists asked on January 25 as part of a larger national movement to hold big corporations accountable to get our economy back on track. People from struggling communities, labor groups, immigrant rights groups, Occupy LA, and others led by Good Jobs LA marched down Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood in a show of unity among the 99% movement. On its way to FedEx, protesters took the opportunity to stop by the branches of big corporations that are also either notorioushttp://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/archive/201202 tax dodgers or are infamous for their bad business practices in our communities. Starting with CNN, whose parent company Time Warner got a tax subsidy of $431 million in 2010, activists marched down Sunset Boulevard carrying signs and banners that read “We Pay Our Taxes, Why is the 1% Not Paying Theirs?” and “Tax Corporations, Build LA”.

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