i demanded that the peace plan i think and i think she was that night was a still shooting a protest that's going to be based on him but some people since tuesday. after next a story of a catastrophic environmental disaster now especially post creek. we're right at the eight hundred foot elevation level right here and a lot of. mine discharges are coming out. right at a hundred foot level. i. mean you can tell that when the the red water mixes with a clear water that's the difference. although this looks clear it's still got a lot of metals in it because it's just charging out of a chat piles. the sides of the mine because the minerals in it are submerged beneath the water and it's isolated from oxygen oxygen is the key. here back when they're first filling up there was

a lot of oxygen available in the mines and that was causing oxidation of the mantle which in turn creates space crucell for myself here you have torque creek which starts up in kansas runs through the mining bill becomes contaminated down that which is just south of picher it then runs on the east side of commerce it runs through the center of miami only into the osho river on into green light but you're safe been doing that since eighty three nothing but orange yucky smelly container. but this watershed has been clocking five million gallons a day since there have been clocks. and if water rolls into the mines or slides off the chap pilot flows out from the underground it's real bad news. isaac newton says

the reaction to the mining is a lifetime of polluted water. this mine system swallows any groundwater hole and then coughs up points blood. in a look at these problems and say this is been here for a long time. it's not just twenty five years and superfund it's it's since money big. and we all benefited from that money either directly or indirectly. it was a good thing for the united states but this is the legacy. kind of a obligation to fix. if you drive through picher right now and drive down the road nothing's changed nothing is really changed so. they put us on the m.p.l. list it's a disgrace and it's sad but no one has done anything about the water. but i'm ashamed right now of the arm of the protection

agency the bureau of indian affairs the department the interior because they've spent all this time talking to us telling us you know what they think we want to hear but if you drive to pitch or to drive down doubtful road it looks the same as it did when they turned off the pumps and they walked away. no one cares about the people that live there. this is not a safe place to live it's a good place there's good people here and it's not fit there been whispers about buying this place out since it was named the superfund in eighty three i mean horrible water all of this mine waste direct danger to children they can get the help they needed and should have an easy to put a buyout together whether it's a dioxin scare they want to build a lake or highway somewhere buyouts happen all the time and human health dangers here seem to qualify. but starkly granted instead an ace in the hole oklahoma

senior senator jim inhofe was chair of the environmental and public works committee in the senate this committee over seas and directs the e.p.a. and inhofe oversaw the committee as far as environmental buyout money goes in off was the faucet and you have a place like this in your home state your chairing the kind of committee that can actually help people and you refuse well we could also know what he was cooking the problem was that in office a soldier of industry fact is in-house brother even used to work for the insurance agency owned by the mining companies in office and deal with polluters so he can't just order a buyout because that would prove this land's not fit for people and it's not fit and someone's got to pay for what got done and that could get expensive so they just pay him off to make this buyout talk disappear and the citizens that stay but to prove that he was working for auto mechanic folks he put together an eighteen

million dollar cleanup plan to stand in for a buyout made everyone wait three years while they pulled it together he was going to move all the chat they were in the math on the plan the same day it was released if you're in fifty trucks a day all day they would take forty years just to move the check forty years moving the chair would cost two hundred twenty five million not eighteen but complete by i was estimated at fifty million and everyone knows inhofe not much of a science man could it be that manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the american people i believe it is but it turned out he was no math guy either but then came news that not even enough could spin. if you got away from mine. and didn't hear a new noise or thing that was always popping it just said.

and i am surprised that pitcher isn't just all fill in. they looked at water and then they looked at land and all the trouble is they forgot to look at subsidence risk which is of course the undermining that goes along with hard rock mining you know it turns out that the areas significant undermined which really shouldn't be a surprise to anybody since they took out i don't know two hundred fifty million tons of or maybe more you know this underground mining was done sometimes clear up to where they had to work till they saw tree roots when you have a several hundred foot mine room that's going almost to the surface guess what it's going to collapse on these days and that land that you're seeing out there it's all undermined and pitcher and card and more people are live and they could wake up one day in their house today collapsed in the morning.

they didn't care what they didn't do that the city pitcher is just sitting on pillars and. the pillars and oh medium sized cave in now this is mania. this is a sunflower and why it's the biggest cave in and the area that you're feeling right here is probably i was saying that one hundred fifty foot deeper than what the water is right now. but i think there is a public policy issue here of if you can account for all the risk and environmental side you should be in charge well i've been around these my whole life and i'm still scared i mean there's just there's just no forgiveness if anything happens around the. if you start going down that's it your history.

it sounds crazy but those holes are actually a blessing the state can afford to move everyone out and off it already pounded his gavel that the current problems weren't bad enough. so things had to get worse to get anything done in several areas collapse that summer in off finally agreed to a study to prove the extent of the undermining. not that it needed to be proven another study felt exhausting you know it felt tired to have to prove that the land was actually undermined and more holes were coming but it was a material chance to get a buy out so nobody feeds this two million dollar study and you can't ignore the bed or what the data shows in regards to subvert the underground mining that was done up here you cannot dispute it in any way as we were able to get political support to evaluate their risk then it became

obvious that people shouldn't live there it's best for in the long run because they have to worry about any more kids being raised in this environment you know we got to put them into that what we are doing is we are going in finding comparables outside the project area. and keeping keep in mind superfund site is a bigger area than the project area project area is that area that i told you about the forty square mile area that was in that subsidence team study they're finding properties outside that area and then giving them comparable value for their property the trust has tried to make some provisions to make sure that everybody gets a minimal decent level of housing so in other words if you live in or in substandard housing we don't want to give you just enough money to go live in substandard housing in miami are somewhere else people get an appraisal and i don't care if you live in a five hundred thousand dollars house again appraisal and you go i really thought

my house was worth more than you know and so what i keep telling people is be realistic in reality if you took that house in the condition that it's in take it and stick it in miami oklahoma put a sign on the front yard how much do you really think you're going to get for that house. kind of interesting we've been so busy trying to do the appraisal issues and those kind of things to get people i hope that are very firm values i mean that's art and. like with any appraisal not everybody is happy with what they're phrase but. it's that it's a chance for these people that they really would never have otherwise i'd like to stay braced for my life fast here because had i feel like i got maybe a year or two years you know maybe not even had septic god but years i got but. i hate to move you know hybrid you. stuff on the walls

and pictures of my stuff and get to have to get rid of the. different things as a lot of it would be nice to have a nice house you know but i'm not able to take care of her and if they are they now you know so. yeah they much but it's home and it's got to be hard leaving home practically being made to leave this places are just on their health and their children so it's one of the property values but it's still home and once the bio reaches critical mass there won't be any more fire department anymore polies anymore like tricity or water stores. it'll just be paved country lined with rusted street signs and when you go through all that and are told the one place you can't live is home you deserve a by a process that is dignified and clean. so the trust was appointed to represent the citizens during the buyout process and they carry out orders from the federal

government and all appraisal issues and cut checks for the homes and i'm just making a little short statement i was offered fifteen dollars a square foot for my business and there's no way that you can build i mean a story space and i know it's not gigantic it's just forty buildings and but it is nice i'm not there let it go look at it we're staying in from a house and for the base package the gunshop the house the land three lots eighty dollars and there's no way you go to mine and replace this for eighty thousand dollars and it's impossible it's a hundred thousand a fair yes and i don't think i can actually go to my man replies and for one hundred. and i went to all of the try to find out why and they said well that's just what we're part of that their prices have been in business for twenty five years they should know what they're doing all of them are there though. the

appraisal company cinnabar services out of tolls is doing shoddy work and the trust is paying them one point eight million dollars to do shoddy work they're rude to the people they have consistency and the trust will not hold him accountable. to listen now we say can i i listened what you guys listen we have people want to say this is not like the first by well we did the same things we put something out for bid we hired a contractor we have gone in and and gotten their appraisals and we've had them review i mean and in all honesty the values are higher in this buyout than they were in the first one and what do you see in the news record here's today's news record trust the fans buy out approach the trust is circling the wagons. you know the truth is supposed to take care of these people and they're not doing

it are there going to be people who feel like they were do more yes. what i can do it sure is that there's been no conspiracy on the part of anyone to get higher values for certain people let me finish. what there is is a lot of innuendo and accusation and yet there is no proof. ok we're coming up on jenelle's brother this is a game of hard. gray health this lab siding one hundred fifteen thousand that house a. house that's been moved three times probably at least eighty years. ok this house on the left longs to miss it and say bates and i have been offered seventy thousand cinnabar said there is something wrong with the beats appraisal so i use

a trust why did you not tell me we did we actually your problem you could we but you didn't raise that as it made it we get you just because we did worse and i raced over there standing around with the beach appraisal so let's leave it the same and. i don't want that means we got three new property is it significant that i brought. the. marquee to like you mean tell me you didn't find anything room. like what we got here. i. think you. need praise or probably have a tough with this town and there are some poor people here there are some bad looking homes and i'm sure those create some challenges but you know missing sammy's house is the same size as the heart's missing sami's is much newer and even if you're blind in a little crazy and think these homes are in similar condition and they can bedroom

isn't a bedroom if it's not close to a bathroom. there's still a forty five thousand dollar difference in a town where the average home is fifty eight grand that's almost the cost of a whole other house this is the kind of appraisal work the trust as behind and they said mrs home on her couch and say maybe we gave the hearts too much i mean we made a mistake before well and in the same breath they think missy and sammy got a good run five dollars if you're not a hollywood story and where does this leave those who've already worked a lifetime and a course in ok alan i pay back a chapter eleven and ninety two years old. and i said i did that it. jackie bird see and she called me the other day she is so worried about the move and she's the one she got not neighbors run across the street so she's god and she don't know about her house since they offered two hundred two thousand not in it i think because she said tell me so i don't know rush to squander.

they offered eighty four years young jackie busy twenty two thousand dollars for her home it doesn't matter what her home is like or can you move on there. she says gentleman the purpose of this letter is to explain why i do not have a bill of sale when i was twenty one i bought my home in picher oklahoma in the fall of one thousand nine hundred three from doing fields for three hundred seventy five dollars i've lived here for almost sixty three years i'm now almost eighty four years old and have lived in the neighborhood seventy seven years longer as far as i know than anyone now living or dead it is with much regret that i will have to leave my home at this late time in my life but i cannot stay without police protection sewer service utilities and safe neighbors please let me be among the last to go.

how do you expect an eighty year old woman who's lived in that house for sixty years. who's on a fixed income. how do you expect her to move out of the superfund site on twenty thousand dollars now you know it's easy for outsiders to come and look at how say oh my gosh a house in worth five thousand dollars that's right but that's at ladies home that's all she has and now you're going to take it away from her and now you've got to make her get and it to get out of here then the funny thing is we can come in here and spend seventy thousand dollars to dig up her yard but we can't give her enough money to move out of town on. anyone he she was up on the cross three. hundred and her this is what environmental problems look like her they look like

people problems environmental problems are people problems as long as gravity still holds us here. they aren't separate he said your offer he looked at and these folks have been stolen from their land raped their names drug through the mud but they are tough as hell break everything else you can grab but these people ain't breaking on your science on your say so run your legislation of the month hell yes they get red headed now they when things seem counterfeit what else do you have and there ain't much. just your word your so and your back. one hundred years later they're still here still fighting for their health and their cool spot of their. whether it's fair weather and they are gone this will not be home anymore. and a hundred years after the first pickaxe struck oklahoma go they're handing this

place back to the quapaw. appreciate your here's the worst superfund site in the country. talk group has even started. you know just because the buyouts go on doesn't mean it's over and just what they can buy these people out which is that what they're going to do but the tribes going to be here forever because the government's not going to give them anymore land you can see that with all this mind weiss cover landscape it's really not usable in the sixty's eagle pitcher was pressing for them to get out of their leases you know and to move in they also offered to cook the chair back in the mines and the department of interior denied stating that the lands were no longer any good for anything they were ruined for

agriculture or any other purpose but the only economic derivative left their lands was the gravel on the surface and that they could sell the gravel when they start realizing that chad had heavy metals that it was was environmentally hazardous part of interior realize that that's a liability since they manage the asset for the tribe if they allow that to be sold then they would incur liability because if this chat were sold and put somewhere else that place might become a superfund site they're lucky there's so little left today there's no telling what the epidemic would look like if there were five times as much lead poaching their young polluting creeks making the ground tremble but eighty years later there's it's seventy five million tons. eighty years of kids best through struggling in school. here gone this chad didn't just heard the kids who tested i. that was here

in mountains before anyone drowning test. so not only has the chad left on the indian least where the tribal member can use the land then they found out they couldn't sell it even so their land became useless as result the cat's been just sitting here for eighty nine hundred years he know we're being restricted from our sales but the money indians are not this check causes lead poisoning that's not an opinion it ruins this very land that was given to the quapaw to replace what they gave up in the b i a made sure this chad stayed right here the b.a.a. said these are the people who are going to bleed because of this waste what is now so clear about this function is that damaging the land is not a separate act from damaging a culture. the whole reason that the government gave the tribe

this land was to replace the land where they came from you know that the quapaw tribe occupied most of what is now arkansas. you know and i feel bad for the people that are living over in picher. i feel bad that they're going to have to move i feel bad that they're going to have to be relocated but you know what couples didn't want to leave orchids. so. it's giving bad out here. but not saying hardly any birds squirrels you know. ducks geese you know i don't know what's going on here this this is like rachel carson's nightmare today you know we're having

a silent fall you know where are the birds where's the wildlife. just don't say this is really unusual i've never been on this river and seen it. you can even hear a bird chirping you know. i think the worst story would have to be. so we're story would have to be the kids we let slip through the cracks.

the kids that. didn't get any help early on. because if you look back if you look back in school history if you talk to families. with those problems who are here. and we didn't know it. hundreds of towns and cities have diminished even died when industry pulls up stakes but these downs in oklahoma began to die because industry arrived way back when it would have been impossible to know the dimension of destruction they'd be left with or who would be hurt by it back then jobs trumped everything

maybe they still do back then they had no concept of the future. but now we are the heirs of our grandparents mess. and here we are about to shoot the porch light out on this town how many more times can we strike lead or uranium or oil before there's no more country.

thank. you are. going.

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