Hay defends lawsuit against EPA
By Evan Brown, PolitickerAZ.com ReporterSydney Hay, the Republican candidate in the 1st Congressional District, still stands behind the lawsuit she filed on behalf of mining company Phelps Dodge as president of the Arizona Mining Association, she told PolitickerAZ.com Wednesday.
After the Arizona Democratic Party attacked her over the suit on Tuesday, Hay fired back with an email to PolitickerAZ.com saying the EPA's regulations on toxic waste reporting are "burdensome."
"This type of burdensome reporting requirement takes precious time and resources away from the serious work of real environmental compliance - the important regulations that we want and need for all of our health and safety," wrote Hay in an email.
By law, companies that "manufactured, processed, or otherwise used a toxic chemical" as defined by the EPA must turn in a yearly report to the EPA on how they handled the chemicals.
In the case of mining, even unaltered rock can be classified as a toxic substance. One EPA report explained, "consolidated rock includes materials that often contain
toxic chemicals above negligible amounts, often in significant quantities." The reason it needs to be reported is that moving it could result in the contamination of water sources, according to the EPA.
"We are talking about 'chemically unaltered, naturally occurring' substances, not toxic waste," said Hay, dismissing the EPA's concerns. "This is referring to rock."
"Mines move a lot of rock that they never do anything with," she continued. "To report all of that rock as toxic waste is ridiculous, it hasn't been changed in any way, just moved."
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Hay what don't you understand about toxic?
Does anyone reading this article actually know what sort of toxic waste the Phelps Dodge mining operations in eastern Arizona produce?
To call things like sulfuric acid and its associated byproducts "burdensome" is completely irresponsible.
For her to whine about how much "precious" time and costs the reporting is to the company is laughable when those mines are producing billions of dollars annually in revenues for the corporation.
I hope you read this Sydney. You are committing a slight of hand by your reference to reporting about rock 'they move but do nothing to' when the real issue is the real toxic wastes the mines produce. You're pretty good at slight of hand.
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