{"id":3063,"date":"2015-08-21T13:15:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T20:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=3063"},"modified":"2015-09-04T13:10:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T20:10:25","slug":"watch-this-space-green-corps-part-3-flipping-senator-john-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/?p=3063","title":{"rendered":"An Entertaining Interruption"},"content":{"rendered":"

[9\/4 Author’s edit]<\/em><\/span> My followers here saw this particular blog post as an explanation of why my Green Corps series Part 3 post was being interrupted, with the explanations that follow. Thought it would be worthwhile to save the material, with just a bit of a re-write.<\/p>\n

I have an elemental bias against the EPA stemming from a 2009 statement<\/a> out of Steve McIntyre’s ClimateAudit blog regarding EPA’s handling of global warming science assessments,<\/p>\n

EPA guidelines require that highly influential scientific assessments meet a variety of sensible standards for transparency, data availability and due diligence<\/span> \u2013 policies that CA [ClimateAudit]<\/em> readers know not to have been implemented by the IPCC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not helping matters much for me was more recent news of EPA director Lisa Jackson having a secret email account, and EPA’s response to it and other Freedom of Information Act-requested material being redacted<\/a> in a way that would make NSA and CIA agents proud.<\/p>\n

The August 5 Gold King minewater spill is just another log to throw on EPA’s ‘transparency fire’, it seems. And now, the rest of the unedited blog post after the point where I mentioned my then-uncompleted Green Corps Part 3 post:<\/p>\n

……… but its delay in the last few weeks is largely due to the ‘EPA Gold King Mine Release Incident’, where I spotted a particular problem involving photos EPA deleted. Paul Driessen’s 8\/18 WUWT guest post mentions my material in his intro<\/a>, as well as Michael Patrick Leahy’s Breitbart article, about halfway into it<\/a>. My familiarity with this mining area comes from it being basically in my ‘vacation back yard’ every summer, and too-vague initial media reports about the spill’s location prompted me to find out where it happened. EPA’s own photo log page provided the answer.<\/p>\n

\"before-during-after\"<\/a><\/p>\n

[8\/27 Update]<\/em><\/span> The pair of EPA photos below that I screencaptured on 8\/12\/15 (along with the three above and many others) which subsequently vanished from their site<\/a> on 8\/16 have now reappeared in EPA’s redacted documents release today<\/a>, starting at page 5 of EPA’s “Draft Technical Memorandum [Weston Solutions to EPA]”<\/a> PDF file, with the particular pair here seen on pg 25 (click to enlarge).<\/p>\n

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[9\/2 Update]<\/em><\/span> Things just keep getting thicker. EPA stated on Monday, August 31st at their page here<\/a> that they were releasing “additional photos from the Gold King Mine response<\/i>“. Many are from their original collection of 191 photos, which they all deleted on 8\/16. As seen in my 8\/12 partial archive<\/a>, EPA’s photos were in oldest-to-newest date format with three different viewing formats to choose from.<\/p>\n

EPA’s latest 8\/31 photo release is at the Flickr.com commercial public photoposting site, having no text descriptions or readily obvious order to them<\/a>, with the critically important photos from the 8\/6 spill not being seen until page 2 there.\u00a0 It’s particularly strange that the photo seen far down on that page of the ‘unknown visitor’<\/a> to the spill as it was happening appears in unredacted form, yet in the Weston Solutions company format that these same photos were released in by EPA on 8\/27<\/a>, the individual was redacted – see page 25 of EPA’s PDF file here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As of the present time, EPA has not yet restored all of the deleted photos back to their own “Gold King Mine Release Incident<\/a>” page, where they were originally seen.<\/small><\/p>\n

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