Mine Waste Spill Case Study

Natives are constantly being overlooked or wronged by the U.S. government. According to the 2007-2011 census the highest national poverty rate was Native American and Alaskan Natives with 27% of people living below the poverty line. An example of just how much Natives are hurting is the Navajo tribe in the Arizona region. Most people don’t have running water or electricity to their houses, and some live on as little as seven gallons of water a week. In the past, the United States government made major acts to remove Natives from existence. An example of an act is the Dawes Act, which was made to make natives more like white people. The next act was the Indian Removal Act better known as the Trail of Tears. This is one of the worst attempt of removing native Americans. The US government forced all Indians to move west with force. This is named the trail of tears because on the way west many died, were raped, and killed. Recently, the Obama Administration have been attempting to give reparations to some of the wrongs done by the US government. One settlement is the $554 million being paid to the Navajo tribe for the mismanagement of funds and natural resources. The way to keep from this happening again is for the federal and state government to allocate funds to native americans allowing them to get out of poverty. This also removes the need to rent out their land, which people mistreat.

Inaction of a problem is just as bad as creating the problem in the first place. While the EPA knew of the lead leeching in the water supply, it simply seems like they sat on their hands and said it was states problem. When the state takes away the power from the cities and the federal govern just simply shrugs its soldiers. Even when the city council wanted to change the water supply back to Detroit they were simply vetoed back out by the new emergency manager Jerry Ambrose. Who could be accountable for the water problem when the city government can’t do anything without vetoed, the state government started the problem and the federal government was saying it is a state’s issue? For the citizens of Flint, this miss trust of all three government and the lack of accountability from the three is where it can hurt elections in the future. I can see were elections for all three levels of government lacks the accountability for such electives in the future. It doesn’t really matter who was voted in the city level because anything they would do would be vetoed and the state wasn’t doing anything nor was the federal government so the lack of accountability for simply putting it in layman’s terms poising and possibly

Modern day Indian reservations are almost exclusively west of the Mississippi River compared to tribal lands all over North America before the European Settlers came. According to the Department of Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs payments received by indigenous people are only for compensation of leased land or mineral rights. Although some grant money is made available for education and job training. The modern day judicial system still holds course for government appropriation over Indian rights, as recently as the Dakota Pipeline project (2017) when the courts ruled the government could put a pipeline through native land over the objection of the

Marc Edwards, a water quality expert who is leading an independent investigation into the scandal, told Al Jazeera that the country 's Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] also played a role in trying to cover up Flint 's crisis."EPA knew about this in April last year ... Children continued to drink from the water and they [EPA] did nothing about it until after October," he said."The primary blame is clearly the MDEQ, but the EPA played an unconscionable role in covering up what was occurring."

Within the Navajo Nation there is a legitimacy by procedures because it selects its leaders to govern the people which are affected by these issues. However, the cry of the people is said that “the thing that keeps the Navajo in poverty is water” which continues to sign

Attorney Jan filed suit against the two corporations for contaminating the drinking water. Jan used geological evidence, experts, and eyewitnesses to prove that the plants owned by Beatrice and Grace had contaminated the water. Some of the elements in this case was negligence, breach of duty, duty of care, and actual harm. Beatrice and Grace Foods owned companies that are contaminating the water supply, both companies are at fault for disposing of waste in the water supply, they have a duty to properly dispose of waste, this is the cause for some many deaths of children in the Woburn area. All the facts of negligence are displayed in this case, so there is no reason not to prosecute these companies to the fullest extent of the law. Big corporations think that they won’t be held liable for mistreatment of action, but Grace and Beatrice need to face the consequences for their actions. Some of the witnesses came forward and stated chemicals were being disposed of improperly by the plant, so these companies should be held liable and do the right thing to compensate all the families affected bu this unruly negligence. No amount of money can replace the loss and suffering these families have to endure, all they wanted is an apology, someone to take responsibility and clean up the water supply in Woburn. Whether it was intentional or not, both companies are liable for negligent to cause intentional harm. Some of the employees knew that they had been contaminating the water supply of Woburn, Massachusetts. Their poor actions had resulted in a chemical of TCP, a cancer causing agent. The water was not safe to drink. Many children drank the water and developed cancer and died from drinking the contaminated water. They should be held accountable for their actions. There is no doubt that they are guilty of negligence. When Jan pleads and contacts the EPA

Almost everybody has a perception that Native Americans received check from government. But does everyone know that is not actually free money from the government. The money is actually from the treaties that was made between the tribes and U.S. for using or taking their lands. The money isn’t sent to anyone individually. The money is sent to the tribes or nations whose Tribal council determine how the money will be distributed (rezkids). There is a lot of news talking about U.S government paying or sending checks to certain Native American tribes. The latest one is in that government owed 3.4 billion to Native American Indians (staff). The news always have the amount in bold letters to emphasize it. The news focuses more on the amount than on why they are receiving that money. The 3.4 billion was actually from the mismanagement of tribal lands and account by the U.S Government

The Government is not going to listen to the Indians, because of their skin but before they decided to move it by the reservation, it was in North Dakota but the landowners were complaining on how it could spill on their land. They move it to the Sioux Falls where the reservation is, they put it right there because they know that the Indians cannot do nothing about it. Another thing is that the government do not that they digging in their ancestors graves and are ruining their ancestral

In 1882, the United States began a series of land boundary decisions which adversely affected the natural resource rights of both Navajo and Hopi tribes, effectively colonizing the Navajo and Hopi tribes through the concept of reservations. Only 42 years ago, in 1974, the federal government partitioned the Big Mountain reservation, where the Hopi and Navajo tribes currently reside, and transferred some of the land to private ownership. Many Hopi and Navajo were relocated to other lands in Arizona, but some 300 families remained at Big Mountain to fight the continued exploitation by private mining companies, primarily the corporation Peabody. Not only were the native people forced to leave their sacred homes, but the relocation sites selected by the federal government were toxic. The sites near Sanders, Arizona, where 100 million gallons of uranium-contaminated water broached a dam and spilled into the surrounding area, were radioactive. The purpose of analyzing this case study in the context of a philosophical paper is: to better understand the evidence that defines the injustice of indigenous enslavement, better understand the process in which our government legalized injustice, and most crucially to start conversations that lead to meaningful recognition that change must be fostered now to dismantle the culture of environmental privilege upon which our nation is built.

It was obvious that there were strong ties to the responsible party of the Marzone site, which was Chevron. The EPA became dependent on Chevron for funding on cleaning up the Marzone site which was some of the reason in avoiding the residential soil testing on the site, and ignoring the needs of the Tifton community. PWP made strong request for assistance from the Agency for the Toxic Substance and Disease Registry (ATSDR) on the Marzone site, which was a great step forward in urging the EPA to do testing of their own, but unfortunately, not much came out of it, because the EPA refused help. The EPA needed to readjust how it went about dealing with the Tifton community on an environmental justice level, which was not seen during this case. They showed little to no regard for the Tifton community in the neglect they received for request to test the soils for dioxin contamination. This leads to training on how EPA officials and ATSDR officials dealing with Superfund sites need more training on environmental justice. The Executive Order unfortunately, has not done much to change this culture of neglect from the EPA and other federal agencies like it. The current laws like the Executive Order 12898 and the EPA’s own laws on dioxin contamination levels are already in place, but the fact that the EPA worked so

The documentary I watched was Broken Rainbow. It portrays the Navajo Indian being forced to relocate by the US Government. Also, it shows how the Hopi and Navajo Indians did a lot for the US Government which include letting them drill on their land and helping in World War II. The government didn’t appreciate the Indians though, so they decided to cheat them and do what they thought will make them relocate. The Indians decided to fight back against the “white man” for their land. My reaction to the documentary was that when the government decided to intervene in an issue it always go downhill. This documentary portrays this because the government decided that they wanted to mine on the Indians’ land. The reason they wanted to mine the land

The Midway Mine was in good standing at the time the violation in question was cited. Matt Dunlap the Day Shift Foreman and the person responsible for directing the work force is viewed as being “charged” with the supervision of the miners Therefore, concluding that Cline is an agent of the operator.

The water crisis in flint is just another example of racism and discrimination in the 21st century. This kind of problem would not happen in a city like fort Thomas. The government thought they could “pull a fast one” and try to save money. but once everything started to backfire they just denied all blame. This is just one example join one small place in the world where the government took advantage of the people. millions of other scandals like this are happening right now. this is just a classic example of the government taking advantage of the people. the crisis in flint is not the peoples fault, they are the victims, it is the governments fault because they just turned a blind eye to the issue, picked saving money over the well-being of there citizens, and added additional hardships to the family of flint, proving that the government should be

One of the most controversial topics of this year is the Dakota pipeline protest, creating conflict between the Sioux tribe and the oil industry. The pipeline is to “be built by Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners and is designed to transport as many as 570,000 barrels of crude oil daily from North Dakota to Illinois.” as stated by Time magazine, Justin Worland. The pipeline would bridge oil wells in the state’s Bakken Shale, where the development has opened billions of gallons of new oil to recovery, to other valuable consumer markets. However , the issue with this project is that the pipeline would travel underneath the Missouri River, in which is the primary drinking water source for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe . For this reason the Sioux tribe and other environmental activists are upset and for good reason ; no one has the right to step into their territory because it isn’t our land. By the Treaty of Fort Laramie, by the unnecessary harsh act law enforce underwent, and for the fact that they rejected the

The term “Vulnerable Population” is defined as, populations or groups whose needs are not fully addressed by traditional service providers. These populations of people feel they cannot comfortably or safely access and use the standard resources offered in disaster preparedness, relief and recovery. According to statistics of vulnerable populations, American Indians are part of the vulnerable populations of the United States. This vulnerable population has had to face irreversible damages all their lives. Based on treaties, laws, presidential executive orders and numerous court decisions, the United States established federally governmental relationships with the American Indian and Alaskan Tribes through the Cherokee Nation V. Georgia