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At one point, this city produced so much copper it was nicknamed the "richest hill on earth." Now, it has a toxic lake filled with acid that will cost the industry billions of dollars to clean up.
Editor's note: Butte's Residential Metals Abatement Program (RMAP) removes attic dust that accumulated in homes built before 1980 - the same year the biggest and only smelter in nearby Anaconda, MT shut down.
The dust from active mining is monitored and tested by the mine, government agencies and third parties. To date the results have been below state and federal action or advisory levels for arsenic and/or heavy metals. Montana Resources continues to study and improve dust control measures in compliance with a state air quality permit, according to Matt Vincent, Rampart Solutions, an environmental solutions company.
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@wyvern723 2 года назад

My great grandfather was a miner in Butte. My mom and her siblings all grew up there. I visited my grandfather there once when I was 8. Butte was old, and quiet and seemed so sad. My mother took me to see the Pit. It was a tourist attraction, which just felt... Worse.

@Purchh 2 года назад

okay and

@northwestalternativemedia2125 2 года назад

did u ever do your own sampling of groundwater there? i got a hundo that says they lieing and the groundwater has been contaminated for half a century lol

@GoingtoHecq 2 года назад

Well damn. Thatvs a depressing experience. Mining and industrial towns never get the fair treatment they deserve from the people who run the show.

@ZE0XE0 2 года назад

@@northwestalternativemedia2125 im a geologist and I live in butte. The groundwater was contaminated millions of years before mankind ever set foot here. The rocks the ground is made of themself are whats causing the problem. The sulfides in the rock react with water and oxygen and break down, creating acid and liberating heavy metals in the minerals.

@LeoL123 2 года назад

In Lapindo, Indonesia, there is a pit of mud which come from failed drilling of gasses and oil exploration. The area of the pit is more than 2.5 square miles. It has emitted massive metana gas since 2006.

@Danto017 2 года назад

Tiati kang bakso depan rumah gan

@pepb_0 2 года назад

*Sidoarjo

@Purchh 2 года назад

shame

@deeperinsider2544 2 года назад

that's what you get

@southaussielad2496 2 года назад

@@deeperinsider2544 wtf🤦‍♂️

@vice.nor.virtue 2 года назад

8:49 oh my god, I was sipping a drink when the woman presented "MORE ACID THAN WOODSTOCK" and I literally sprayed lemonade all over my bedroom laughing so hard! 😂 😂

@Damonh234 2 года назад

My dad and family grow up next to a superfund site. A corrupt guy took toxic waste from all the big corporations (AT&T, GE, Ford, Square D, etc...) and literally dumped it on the road on rainy nights, buried it, let it soak in the ground, and piped it into the local creek. Because of his business and government connections, noone would do anything. Eventually he was charged, but was easily able to flee the country to live wealthy in Central America. For decades my family had to deal with the aftermath with no help. We learned very quickly that the government and businesses will easily put money over your life if they can get away with it.

@justsomecommie2638 2 года назад

Thats how capitalism works.

@jimmyjimjim3054 2 года назад

@@justsomecommie2638 No, that's how criminals work.

@justsomecommie2638 2 года назад

@@jimmyjimjim3054 Criminals work under capitalism like that.

@GoingtoHecq 2 года назад

@@jimmyjimjim3054 you missed the part where he wasn't found to be criminal for a long time and was able to flee justice and keep his wealth because he was making money for everyone involved by dumping the waste into the lives of everyone else.

@jimmyjimjim3054 2 года назад

@@GoingtoHecq I didn't miss it. And you're right, that's terrible.

@wangruochuan 2 года назад

me, a geologist used to work at many superfund sites in west coast. I still remember my professor talked about these places. she said, superfund is super fun. She's right. specially when you writing a report and working with the consulting firm on addressing the issue to the site owner and local regulation department. gotta write something goes like, this site is really bad, but its not that bad. I mean you gotta let the official know that these people screwed up but the language needs to be mild enough so that they dont loose their job. stuff like, this arsenic contamination is lethal. it hurt but wont kill so, dont shut their shop people loose job not good, but do tell them they are bad guys.

@skyhappy 2 года назад

So what happens to the company, slap on the wrist?

@wangruochuan 2 года назад

@@skyhappy usually get a fat fine depend on how much tax they pay and how much local worker there. I worked on a barrel recycling place. their waste tank was leaking. had a whole bunch benzene and gas leached out into the soil. Had their entire place dug up. like 20ft soil transported to desert. the owner didnt pay much for this since the shop went bankrupt. on the other hand, Tesla Fremont plant was fined 3mil for leaching toxic stuff. there was another lab in San Jose. I think they had some radioactive stuff out into the soil. they werent charged much. not really sure whats going on with them. I heard it was something like uranium isotope. never had any drink around that place ever since. conspiracy or not. stuff is nasty in my industry.

@skpjoecoursegold366 2 года назад

i drove through Butte in 1975, i thought it was one of the ugliest places i'd ever seen; and i had been through Bakersfield, CA in 1963.

@aersn4locs 2 года назад

What was that like ?

@Jdogg4089 2 года назад

@@MAXIMUSMINIMALIST Uglier?

@ChefBardo 2 года назад

Bako is horrible. I used to have to go there for business. Nothing but a buncha meth heads.

@Amdusiias Год назад

Yeah, as somebody who as lived in Butte his entire life, it's nothing pretty to look at. Lots of history for tourists, but the rest of it isn't good. Lots of drugs and alcohol issues as well as structural worries due to the underground mines.

@Uday95. 2 года назад

I’m really liking this series, World Wide Waste. It’s also really informative

@tengkualiff 2 года назад

Ikr

@donHooligan 2 года назад

depleted uranium from our military should be at the top of the list.

@joe.oneill 2 года назад

Very informative. It shows the need for the EPA to be given more enforcement authority. Something they have been lacking since their founding.

@Kremithefrog1 2 года назад

You should look into all the times the EPA has allowed toxic dumping, etc even when they had the authority. It's all about money.

@joe.oneill 2 года назад

@@Kremithefrog1 That's the thing, they can only recommend the DOJ enforce the laws. Then the paperwork gets misplaced unless it absolutely can't be swept under the rug. It's always been about the money.

@Kremithefrog1 2 года назад

@@joe.oneill I should have said approved instead of allowed.

@joe.oneill 2 года назад

@@Kremithefrog1 Yeah, I've seen that too. I saw Frontline documentary on the EPA years ago, with interviews from former employees talking about how they were forced to approve certain things that were clearly wrong. The pressure always came from the White House, regardless of which party was there. Had more to do with the company's relationship with the sitting President.

@goodun2974 2 года назад

This channel should do an episode about the mica mine in Libby Montana that poisoned not only the entire town with airborne asbestos but hundreds of thousands of homes around the country, with Vermiculite mica used as blown-in insulation for walls and attics. See the book "An Air That Kills".

@boowiebear 2 года назад

This is a good story. Cleanup in progress. Health improving and even a tourist attraction!

@petrichor259 2 года назад

wtf are you talking? Tourist attraction? Is that all you see here? You people have no concern about the environment and you will suffer sooner or later.

@theonlyDB 2 года назад

I work in a Lead Plant in the Air Quality Systems . We have baghouses that have filtration bags and all , 38 baghouses to be exact, and they pull from the air off the furnaces. Nothing but arsenic and lead and many other things but those being the worst. And we wear respirators every day all 8 hours just like the guy in beginning of video and the white tyvek suits. We have to take showers everyday before going home. Most people's lead content in their body are about 1-3. Mine right now Is 27. Which actually isnt bad . To keep pollution down they do a whole bunch of acid washes and shit after the air comes through the baghouses . And they have air quality meters set up on the other side of the street of the plant. Biggest lead smelting place in the WORLD. Called Sanders Lead Co

@tengkualiff 2 года назад

Wish you guys did coverage here in Selangor, Malaysia. We always get water cuts since the rivers always get polluted somehow. Since we are a developing country, there is definitely corruption at play. But i am curious as to how the cleanup for our water sources, since it happens once every few months or so.

@wan632 2 года назад

haha.. jangan bro jangan

@YourMom-vl2sp 2 года назад

My ex is from there. That explains a lot 😂🤣

@chankanyy924 2 года назад

Make your own video would be better

@djthegrateone 2 года назад

It's all over Asia unfortunately. I live in Indonesia the tap water sometimes makes you itch

@ShaunYap_98 2 года назад

Or shine the spotlight on deals our ruling monarchy does to strip Malaysia of its natural resources for their own gain and not the people of Malaysia

@remyturpin2142 2 года назад

Wow I searched the government site and I’ve know that there’s an army plant 3 miles away but didn’t know the group water was contaminated with toxic metals and depleted uranium that’s always wonderful to see

@JigilJigil 2 года назад

Just imagine what is the codition in China, the main reason mining and extraction of minerals and elements went to China is because rich countries decided to get ride of these consequences and China happily accepted.

@cheesecakelover6692 2 года назад

🙄🙄🙄 China again?

@jamesbizs 2 года назад

@@cheesecakelover6692 yes. And?

@thekinginyellowhastur9244 Год назад

I had family living in butte, namely my great grandparents where my great grandfather worked as a rail engineer. Since I was a kid I always looked at the pit and these rigs as engineering marvels, not knowing till now just how much impact all that had. But I still cant help respect the work of men like my great grandfather, who even stayed behind in japan to help reconstruct rail infrastructure, and worked until he couldn't supporting his family. He's even immortalized in the Butte museum of mining. RIP Leno Bazzanella

@snowmiaow 2 года назад

Can they mine the water? Get the metal out?

@marcob1729 2 года назад

A good example of how reasonable regulation can improve economic development. The lack of oversight is costing billions, and that doesn't count money lost in health and exploitation.

@tractordawg 2 года назад

Yeah but now the all the mining is done in developing countries where regulations are most like never going to develop. It's like the oil industry it's bad here but anywhere else it's worse

@tizzitizzi817 2 года назад

Really hope that the digging company DOESN T bankrupt,otherwise who would pay for this superfunds

@obsoleteoptics 2 года назад

The taxpayers

@jon45test 2 года назад

"More acid than Woodstock" is perfect, and I need that shirt

@ParadigmUnkn0wn 2 года назад

One small positive in this proverbial mountain of negatives is that some technologies developed to deal with remediating toxic soil may be useful for dealing with the toxic soil on Mars, and possibly techniques to remediate large volumes of acidic water could be useful if we ever make it to Venus. Humans are a persistent and innovative bunch. We might create a lot of problems, but we're also pretty good at coming up with solutions to those problems. Overall I'm optimistic for our future, we've just gotta be more careful when it comes to considering the 'what if' and long term aspects of everything we do, from climate and environmental impact to societal impacts. It all matters.

@GoingtoHecq 2 года назад

Dude we are not on Mars yet and it will be at least a century before we have any truly self sustaining population there. And even then there will still be a ton more people to care about back on earth. Mars is a low priority on the infinite list of things to do for human well being.

@rrvisions-rickyruthejew 2 года назад

Hey Beavis... Uhhhh huh huh he said there's a toxic pit in America's Butte... huh huh

@amazingyashworld6233 2 года назад

Amazing and thanks for sharing this beautiful info

@brotherheed00 2 года назад

Nice, factual, quick to the point video.

@theonlybuzz1969 2 года назад

If one treatment plant is just keeping the water level fairly even, then why don’t they build another plant? It may be 90 million but if it gains employment for local people and help reduce and produce clean water for the wild. Good luck with the cleanup, hope it makes a difference…phil. 🇬🇧

@zettaiengineer4202 2 года назад

The pit happens to be a site where polluted water from mining is visually discernible. The issue extends to the mining district including around Anaconda MT where heavy metals will indefinitely contaminate the waterway all the way to the Pacific. Water borne pollution also transits through MT from Canadian mining eg. selenium leaching from coal mine tailings.

@aborkmga1 2 года назад

Now after the car industry switching to electricity imagine all the mining for material used for battery and will be doing the same thing in 10-20 years from now cleaning the mess we left from the mining

@markanthony3275 2 года назад

I'm posting to tell you that I've seen the future...no cars period. A minister in Boris Johnson's government in England announced that in the future they are going to ban all personal vehicles...ICE vehicles and E.V.'s. So there won't be much more mining for battery materials. Full disclosure...I work in a nickel mine in Manitoba, Canada that is in talks with Elon Musk to supply nickel for his E.V.'s.

@lmb5529bml 2 года назад

@@markanthony3275 Good luck with that future becoming real

@zinbrew 2 года назад

Yeah lithium mines are pretty bad. Major pollution to soil and water.

@Totalinternalreflection 2 года назад

And you thing mining all the materials for combustion engines isn’t as bad?

@markanthony3275 2 года назад

@@lmb5529bml Why don't you find that interview and listen to it yourself. The E.V. will be just as dead as the ICE vehicle. And the reason is because they already know from the green energy disaster that is Germany, that there will never be enough power available to charge all those batteries.

@sheelakanade9299 2 года назад

This was a wonderful video overall

@YasinNabi 2 года назад

Great video as always :) I enjoyed the full video :)...

@kylehamilton1366 2 года назад

Thank you for videos like this. Keep up the good work!

@vingsnes_ep8671 2 года назад

Excellent reporting - thank you!

@PerspectiveEngineer 2 года назад

Boy that’s stories as depressing as Butte Montana.

@vice.nor.virtue 2 года назад

Does this sentence make sense? Ten people liked it so i feel like it's colloquial grammar that I'm not understanding.

@nicke.3011 2 года назад

Evil Knievel is buried in Butte. His gravestone, and the Copper King Mansion, are probably the two coolest things in Butte.

@dawsonelmore9834 2 года назад

Lol I knew it was butte just from the title alone

@markm31017 2 года назад

I like this channel alot.

@Catwoman1464 2 года назад

Here in germany we flood former mining sites to create a seascape for birds and waterlife.

@namedrop721 2 года назад

That’s cool except you can’t do that with water-soluble pits. You get a lake of acid, a lake of lead, or worse

@jakejake7162 2 года назад

Y’all are like the new vice covering so many small and unique issues

@jamesbizs 2 года назад

“One candle”, second later, shows a video with a light bulb hanging every few feet.

@CHET1 2 года назад

I’m moving there to have free attic cleaning. What a deal

@ksgrmdsdl2383 2 года назад

This demonstrate the kind of damage that greed can do to the environment and the society.

@Smokie1523 2 года назад

Think i just saw another video about the people keeping birds off the lake, not sure if that was you guys too, but very interesting content.

@SkotiM 2 года назад

If the shafts flooded up to the point the lake formed, i think it's fair to say the water in the shafts is already seeping into the water table.

@vice.nor.virtue 2 года назад

I thought that too, but that really seems like something you'd have to trust the authorities on. If it were leaching into the water table then the amount of bodies piling up due to contaminated water would be a national scandal equal to or greater than Flint, Michigan.

@Bob_Lob_Law 2 года назад

Well if the water table is supplying the lake, what makes you think the water from the lake will make it into the water table? Is the flow not coming *out* of the water table?

@SkotiM 2 года назад

@@Bob_Lob_Law I was thinking more that if the rock is pourus enough to enable the mine to flood in the first place it suggests it is pourus enough for contaminated water to escape back into the water table.

@austinreid3951 2 года назад

so whats happening is right behind the pit (about 70 or so feet above the rim) there is a lake, and the water just flows down through the mining site and into the shafts, gets the chemicals into it, then it flows up through the shafts. it doesnt penetrate because its still under hard bedrock. ~50 feet above the currect water level is where bedrock ends.

@bauman7962 2 года назад

We are the worst thing that happened to this planet

@glyph241 2 года назад

Border Collies Should Thin Us Out A Bit…

@thehillbillyhilton3557 2 года назад

Its a cool town to visit, a ton of history there.

@johnl.7754 2 года назад

Nice that the clean up is not paid by the US public.

@Eristhenes 2 года назад

Not yet, anyway. No doubt Republicans will allow corporations to roll back EPA protections though their exhaustive and lucrative lobbying efforts.

@jamesbizs 2 года назад

@@Eristhenes yes yes lol it’s republicans that are for big corps. Not like every single democrat congressman is a multi millionaire (after getting in). Not like liberals are now pro big pharmaceutical. Or shutting down small business, while propping up Walmart and Amazon It’s those darn republicans!!!

@bleedcubieblue 2 года назад

It really sux that the average person gotta deal with that enviormental disaster.

@Plumbbob515 2 года назад

sounds like my city in a city building game

@mr.edallat9805 2 года назад

VERY GOOD

@Spencerlayne 2 года назад

Dude looks like he's about two cheese burgers away from a heart attack. And he's concerned about dust 😂😂😂

@crf80fdarkdays 2 года назад

Healthy people die too, why not live a little?

@jamesbizs 2 года назад

@@crf80fdarkdays he’s living a lot, but not for very long. I’d rather live a normal amount, but well. Think he’s living well? Think eating burgers and donuts is worth the cost?

@grievingmom 2 года назад

@@jamesbizs "not for long" um, he looks in his 50s at least, so he's doing all right...."living well" is an illusion...we all choose but some things can't be chosen...my son passed at 20 from an unknown enlarged heart, looked fit, on the college basketball team...just didn't wake up one day....I say do what makes you happy while you are here since no one is guaranteed a lengthy life, up to you to make a fulfilling one for yourself...

@crf80fdarkdays 2 года назад

@@jamesbizs also healthcare both physical and mental is fucked, I live in Australia and we have a bad suicide rate because of this governments inability to care for its citizens properly. It's a wonder we don't have more people go on liking sprees

@josipmatic4732 2 года назад

I watched some yt video which say, every soil ground problem can be fixed by plants, just pick right spectrum!

@xveteran6300 2 года назад

1.54 we now waiting grandfather Mantis chosen son plan end of january. The First ditset. We failid to protected Him but he never forgotten his legend plan.

@miguelcastaneda7236 2 года назад

Tucson had theirs courtesy of US air force pit two hundred feet wide half mile long old fiel oil..coolant...went into ground water every well contaminated.......remember the air force is our brightest and best the US can be

@ittimjones 2 года назад

An hour outside of DC near my MIL a cement plant closed down a large public park (apparently they always owned the land) and multiple baseball fields to expand and send materials into the city...

@leorodriguez-vd7qw 2 года назад

How can a company that makes billions on a finite resource not expect that resource to run dry.

@swirrllfolfsky9803 2 года назад

4:55 my local landfill in Onalaska, WI is a superfund site, so that's fun...

@skyricq 2 года назад

Live right next to a rock quarry. Can't keep a damn thing clean outside or inside

@Ender2016 2 года назад

I would argue Hanford is America's biggest environmental issue and cleanup task.

@drpk6514 2 года назад

1. America has a huge problem with wastes. This is a huge hole perfect to be filled with rubbish and in the end, a layer of soil would cover it up. 2. One of the best plants is bamboo. Moso bamboo survives even -20C. The root network keeps the soil protected and the plant grows fast and covers the entire place. After a few years, you could have ongoing sustainable timber harvest. 3. I understand it is probably too expensive to use the black floating balls. What about styrofoam sheets?

@darksilence6930 2 года назад

Just one to provide some feedback on the interesting suggestions you gave. Firstly, the video said it was too large to cover up with rubbish and also, where would all the water go? The lake is 456 acres large. That is roughly 430 football fields. Second, while bamboo may be good at surviving in -20c, it is not suited for the high PH that is found near the pit. Finally, for the styrofoam sheets, it is again very expensive to use (many football fields of styrofoam), not very durable at all (one tear and it can start drifting apart), and bad for the environment.

@drpk6514 2 года назад

@@darksilence6930 First the video said it is too big to be filled with soil not garbage. The bigger the better, more rubbish can be put there. Second the layer of soil buffers from the water 20 meters below. BTW I have a PhD in plant biotechnology, try not to teach me about these things. Third the water doesnt need to go anywhere. Where do you think it was before? Fourth Styrofoam are almost all air and produced very cheaply. Also durable. Have you ever seen a Styrofoam rots?

@austinreid3951 2 года назад

i live here and -20 is optimistic for mid jan-march. we usually get several -40 days a year

@GD15555 2 года назад

Humans with their curiosity are paying the price. I guess it’s the law of the universe. 30 basic quantum particles and fields created elements which are laws we live by. You have to pay the price for knowledge.

@MoZz.. 2 года назад

Question - why dont they scrape/remove the top soil and waste rock thats been dumped, and put it back into the pit?

@gkornelson 2 года назад

It's because that would cost an obscene amount of money. There were 700 million tons of waste removed from the pit, and the cost would be several dollars per ton to move again back to the pit = $2 billion to do this.

@ObeseT 2 года назад

They are actually attempting this in Yerington Nevada, USA. But as Kornerson said, for a pit so large is isn’t feasible (it would most likely cost more than a few bucks a ton and would take many years).

@LiminalQueenMedia 2 года назад

People talking about wanting to jump in don't work with copper much. I can visibly see the copper sulfate in that water.

@moynulhasan7454 2 года назад

It’s very sad for environment.

@neilhowes4215 2 года назад

We go in, take the money, leaving a trail of death behind us!

@feliperinaldins.1847 2 года назад

1:21 real life Ron Swanson

@mouadchaiabi 2 года назад

Butte is heaven to fans of dystopian fiction.

@gloinkedup 2 года назад

And meth

@AceKC 2 года назад

More Acid than Woodstock is definitely very funny.

@maxwalker1159 2 года назад

Interesting

@FinancialShinanigan 2 года назад

When people start living on Mars, they'll pay big money to visit Earth on death tourism.

@jamesbizs 2 года назад

When? 1000 years from now? If we are capable of going to mars and actually living legitimately, we’d be more than capable of cleaning up anything wrong with earth. And by that time, we’d have come up with quite a lot of tech for power generation, as well as cleanup. Stop with the end of the world nonsense.

@thepunadude 2 года назад

HEYDAY, PLAY DAY ... MAY DAY MAY DAY! THERE ARE ALWAYS CONSEQUENCES

@8_oceanrain607 Год назад

This is what the Story of Stuff is talking about - the issue of overconsumption.

@lupusdei0819 2 года назад

Seen another video, some dude has a job to shoot towards birds to scare them off the lake

@dmitriousali1462 2 года назад

This video reminded me of the new life is strange game

@ashariariya6516 2 года назад

Kalimantan timur banyak lubang tambang batubara nih.. tolong buat superfund juga dong bu Sri Mulyani

@safetydave720 2 года назад

Strip mining needs to be outlawed. PERIOD!

@ObeseT 2 года назад

Where do you think the metal in the device you are on comes from? It comes from these mines, and these pits.

@TheBooban 2 года назад

If they filter just enough water so that it doesn’t over flow...why not filter more till it’s gone?

@mustipunyaemail 2 года назад

Save for the future.

@lavatools1359 2 года назад

Don’t buy any property near a retention pond…. Sometimes they have high levels of Lead…. Plenty of them in Indiana

@maxpowr90 2 года назад

Once the machines shut off, the city will essentially be abandoned.

@vice.nor.virtue 2 года назад

Well if you're gonna put it that way! You don't know how many towns the aquifer beneath Butte serves. If they shut off those machines I doubt it will only be one town that goes extinct due to contaminated water.

@joeybraghieri 2 года назад

Damn the government actually does something successful once in a while

@22jawky 2 года назад

Im almost certain this is gettting sprayed on gmo crops, and fed to the population. I can garuntee they are using it to make construction materials

@ObeseT 2 года назад

All water is recycled water, and anyhow everyone uses the same water for gmo & non gmo crops.

@germanjesus 2 года назад

I had no idea

@DaveTan65 2 года назад

Better call Paul (Stamets).

@MuffinMammoth Год назад

Well shit. I thought there was only one Superfund site in my hometown, turns out there's 8. The one I knew about is on the National Priority List as well.

@MohamedAli-ko4sm 2 года назад

Was it worth it?

@paulsmecker2778 2 года назад

Should be talking about PFAS in all the water !

@janeyannachicken9053 Год назад

"... didn't know the effects toxic waste would have..." Oh, they knew. They just didn't care because they knew they'd never have to face the consequences.

@Differ220 Год назад

I know thats alot of water to clean up but hear me out of an idea. why not try distilling it/ boil it in a pot and letting the air evaporate? you can get the material out this way tho its alot harder then getting in soild form, you just have to make it solid again. I have heard of people making products out of sulfur so it is possible to make money out of it. I am only giving out ideas so if they don't work we can always try something else that will. :3

@tessathomas554 2 года назад

They should also try planting lavender. Those plants apparently like bad soil

@looking8030 2 года назад

Atleast they are trying to fix it

@ashariariya6516 2 года назад

The future of Grassberg mine

@guidosillaste4297 Год назад

In nature sligthly acidig rain will break up rock and then bacteria and fungy will start eating it. Maybe its possible to neutralise the waste rock by adding a ton of bacteria and funky.

@heyo8674 2 года назад

This is the least negative news I've heard for the past week lol

@online3010 2 года назад

Why don't you plant copper absorbing trees around the town to also make a new industry

@vice.nor.virtue 2 года назад

There's actually a whole host of extremophile heavy metal absorbing plants they could use for "biomining". They kind of touch on that the potential for plants to absorb the metals but they don't really go into a lot of detail.

@jamesbizs 2 года назад

“The biggest thing is “. You. You are the biggest thing. Holy hell.

@michaeltabanao9014 2 года назад

Disaster, once you take the soil a mix it, its difficult to establish native trees , plants and grasses. Let alone draining the pit. Drain it, lay a massive liner like landfills

@vice.nor.virtue 2 года назад

Did you miss the explanation with diagrams about the part where there is 10,000 miles of mining tunnels underneath the pit which have totally flooded?

@michaeltabanao9014 2 года назад

@@vice.nor.virtue If we can spend 3 Trillion on an Infustruture Bill, put humans in space.......Pumps been around for ever, ever sceen New Orleans Pumping Stations, they are below sea level and have a combined sewer system🤷‍♂️🤔

@vice.nor.virtue 2 года назад

@@michaeltabanao9014 so, in other words, you DID miss the part where they explained that not only is the pit too large to put a plastic liner, but also the fact that there is 10,000 miles of tunnels that can’t be easily resolved? Sorry did I miss anything? Oh wait no I didn’t. If you have a degree in environmental chemistry the by all means get in touch with the local council…. But if you don’t welll… let them do their damn jobs, okay.

@nirupamroy3941 2 года назад

0:29 I honestly thought he would say " Me"

@Dd-sunshine68 2 года назад

Have they tried planting lavender ?

@soulofexistence 2 года назад

0:30 I thought he was gonna say "the biggest thing is...me"

@loopymind 2 года назад

I don't think Pat's main worry for his health is the dust

@rawlahiabetes6969 2 года назад

For everyone who's anti government, this is why government is important. They created the superfund and enforce it.

@Alucard-gt1zf 2 года назад

They also allowed the problem to happen in the first place

@vvvvxxxx9999 9 дней назад

Don't worry about it, when Trump gets in. The problem will disappear.

@captainskelly2047 2 года назад

Yes

@chris.3711 2 года назад

At one point in time, the smog was so thick, that the street lights would switch on in the middle of the day and people would drop dead while walking to work.