River of lost souls : the science, politics, and greed behind the Gold King Mine disaster / Jonathan P. Thompson
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- 9781937226831
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"A vivid historical account...Thompson shines in giving a sense of what it means to love a place that's been designated a 'sacrifice zone.'"
-- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Award-winning investigative environmental journalist Jonathan P. Thompson digs into the science, politics, and greed behind the 2015 Gold King Mine disaster, and unearths a litany of impacts wrought by a century and a half of mining, energy development, and fracking in southwestern Colorado. Amid these harsh realities, Thompson explores how a new generation is setting out to make amends.
JONATHAN THOMPSON is a native Westerner with deep roots in southwestern Colorado. He has been an environmental journalist focusing on the American West since he signed on as reporter and photographer at the Silverton Standard & the Miner newspaper in 1996. He has worked and written for High Country News for over a decade, serving as editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2010. He was a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and in 2016 he was awarded the Society of Environmental Journalists' Outstanding Beat Reporting, Small Market. He currently lives in Bulgaria with his wife Wendy and daughters Lydia and Elena.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-312).
Part 1: Headwaters. Blowout ; Holy land ; Awful in their sublimity ; Dandelion brew ; Olaf and the Gold King ; Perfect poison ; Slime wars I ; Vertical integration ; Hard rain's gonna fall ; The blackest week ; Slime wars II ; Strike -- Part II: Fossils. Moving mountain ; "This can't be the United States" ; Hot spot ; Radiate as directed -- Part III: We're all downstreamers. Black decade ; Project Skywater ; Lake Emma ; The fish question ; Mine down ; Lost soul, found soul ; Mine pool ; Fractures, faults, and leaks ; Goldfields ; Aftermath ; Sacrifice ; Redemption.
In 2015, a flood of thick yellow sludge from a long-abandoned mine in Silverton, Colorado, made headlines as it flowed down the Animas River towards the Navajo Nation and the mighty Colorado River. Perhaps the most charismatic environmental disaster of our time, the Gold King Mine spill illustrates the devastating potential waiting in hundreds of abandoned mines throughout the Rocky Mountains. With disarming storytelling, award-winning journalist Jonathan P. Thompson unearths a litany of impacts wrought by a century and a half of mining, energy development, and fracking in southwestern Colorado. Amid these harsh realities, Thompson explores how a new generation is setting out to make amends.