Documentary Billed as Environmentalist Exposé Showing in Salt Lake City
Apr 25, 2008 by Jeff Robinson
Filmmakers are Guests of The Sutherland Institute
(KCPW News) A controversial documentary being billed as an exposé of the "dark side" of environmentalism is expected to play to a sold-out crowd at the Gateway this morning. "Mine Your Own Business" features interviews with environmentalists hoping to stop the development of a gold mine in Romania, and some local residents who invite the development it would bring.The husband-and-wife team of Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney directed the film. They came to town from Ireland to present it to guests of conservative think-tank The Sutherland Institute.
KCPW's Jeff Robinson talked with McAleer about the documentary and the reception it's gotten around the world.
The documentary was funded by Gabriel Resources, the Canadian company hoping to build the mine that is the subject of the film, but the filmmakers say it did not have editorial control.
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1. Peter Maier said:
Environmental issues are very complex issues, dealing with different disciplines of science, which not all have representatives around the table. Since environmentalist were the first one taken action, they now consider their influence as a birthright, while the ‘technical’ knowledge’ lacks. When EPA implemented the CWA it used an essential pollution test incorrect and as consequence ignored all the pollution caused by nitrogenous (urine and protein) waste and in 1984 EPA acknowledged this fact, but in stead of correcting the test, it allowed an alternative test, which now officially ignored the nitrogenous pollution and allows rivers to be used as urinals.
Most large national environmental groups also benefited form this incorrect test as they successfully sued industries allegedly out of out of compliance with the discharge permits, while in fact they treated their waste water better as was required by their permits.
Even being aware of the facts that we still can not evaluate the real treatment of sewage in treatment facilities and we still have no idea what their effluent waste loadings are on receiving water bodies, these environmental groups, mostly to protect their own interest and refuse to get involved to correcting this essential test, which shows that their own agenda has little to do with bettering our environment.
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