El oscarizado ex vicepresidente de EEUU, Albert Arnold Al Gore, por su documental-denuncia sobre el calentamiento global, Una verdad incómoda, es propietario de un complejo minero en Carthage (Tennessee). La cuenca a la que pertenece, Gordonsville-Cumberland, emitió 1,8 millones de kilos de vertidos tóxicos al aire y el agua entre 1998 y 2003. Vertidos en los canales hídricos y emisiones tóxicas son los potenciales peligros.
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During the 2000 presidential campaign, Gore was accused of hypocrisy because of the behavior of corporations that had contracted to extract resources from land owned by his family. The corporations were the Occidental Petroleum Corporation and the Pasminco Zinc Mine.
Al Gore owned (indirectly through his father's estate) several thousand shares of Occidental Petroleum Corporation. Occidental Petroleum angered environmentalists by trying to open a new oil/gas drilling field in Colombia.
Additionally, the Gore family licensed mining rights on their Cumberland River Valley farm to Pasminco Zinc, which was fined in 2000 for exceeding water pollution limits. Specifically, the Environmental Protection Agency found that zinc levels in the Caney Fork river near the mine were 1.480 mg/L (milligrams per liter); the maximum allowed monthly average was .65 mg/L, and the daily allowed maximum was 1.30 mg/L. Therefore, Pasminco Zinc was found on one occasion to exceed the daily maximum for zinc pollution by about 14%.
However, even the conservative Wall Street Journal stated that "mining is intrinsically a messy business, and Pasminco Zinc generally has a good environmental record" (The Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2000). Two independent tests sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, conducted in September 1999 and June 2000, found that the water in the river was within legal limits, although soil tests near the river revealed troublingly high levels of heavy metals.
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Ah, un mal recuerdo para Al Gore será siempre recordar que en las presidenciales del 2000 tuvo que soportar perder en su estado natal, Tennessee, un resultado que antes de los recuentos y pucherazos en Florida pudo haberle abierto las puertas de la Casa Blanca.
Lo importante sería saber si esa empresa se está saltando la legislación y contamina más de lo permitido, eso sí que sería reprochable a Gore. No sé si el artículo dice eso (libertasiniradigital me da alergia), así que no la votaré hasta que alguien confirme ese hecho.