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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1783608" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Navajos say EPA should clean its spill rather than trying to swindle Indians</strong></span></p><p></p><p>The <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/environmental-protection-agency/" target="_blank">EPA</a> is trying to cheat Navajo Indians by getting them to sign away their rights to future claims from the agency’s Gold King Mine disaster, tribal officials charged Wednesday, adding more to the administration’s public relations problems over the spill that threatens critical Southwest waterways.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/environmental-protection-agency/" target="_blank">Environmental Protection Agency</a> officials were going door to door asking Navajos, some of whom don’t speak English as their primary language, to sign a form that offers to pay damages incurred so far from the spill, but waiving the right to come back and ask for more if their costs escalate or if they discover bigger problems, Navajo President <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/russell-begaye/" target="_blank">Russell Begaye</a> told The Washington Times.</p><p></p><p>The spill has dumped millions of gallons of polluted wastewater into the Animas River, which feeds the San Juan River and eventually the Colorado River, which provide water for grazing and crops in much of the Four Corners area, the quadripoint of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. The Navajo Nation covers much of that territory.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/12/indians-say-epa-trying-swindle-them-mine-spill/" target="_blank">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/12/indians-say-epa-trying-swindle-them-mine-spill/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1783608, member: 12952"] [SIZE=6][B]Navajos say EPA should clean its spill rather than trying to swindle Indians[/B][/SIZE] The [URL='http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/environmental-protection-agency/']EPA[/URL] is trying to cheat Navajo Indians by getting them to sign away their rights to future claims from the agency’s Gold King Mine disaster, tribal officials charged Wednesday, adding more to the administration’s public relations problems over the spill that threatens critical Southwest waterways. [URL='http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/environmental-protection-agency/']Environmental Protection Agency[/URL] officials were going door to door asking Navajos, some of whom don’t speak English as their primary language, to sign a form that offers to pay damages incurred so far from the spill, but waiving the right to come back and ask for more if their costs escalate or if they discover bigger problems, Navajo President [URL='http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/russell-begaye/']Russell Begaye[/URL] told The Washington Times. The spill has dumped millions of gallons of polluted wastewater into the Animas River, which feeds the San Juan River and eventually the Colorado River, which provide water for grazing and crops in much of the Four Corners area, the quadripoint of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. The Navajo Nation covers much of that territory. [URL]http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/12/indians-say-epa-trying-swindle-them-mine-spill/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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